Taking part in today's edition of the If You Ask Me... Q&A are 14-year-old Kiana from Palm Bay, FL and 15-year-old Rachel from McComb, MS. Below, they discuss the shortcomings of the Twilight movies, sentimentally significant reads, and favorite characters who feel like long-lost friends.
Kiana from Palm Bay, FL
Today's guest post by Leah Stewart, author of HUSBAND AND WIFE tackles the issue of whether or not fiction has anything to teach women. I for one agree with her wholeheartedly that it does, and can only assume that the woman who made the (dare I say) rude and opposing statement to her had either never taken an English class or been in a book club or maybe she was just having a really bad hair day.
Patty Dugoni doesn’t remember too many specific reading moments with her son, legal thriller writer Robert Dugoni, but as the mother of 10, who can blame her? She does fondly recall family trips to the library (admittedly as much for her benefit as her children’s) and her budding novelist whipping through the classics in his early years.
In today's post, guest blogger Karen White, author of ON FOLLY BEACH shares a very human side of being a writer and talks about her first experience being recognized in public.
Jeri Smith- Ready --- author of the newly released urban fantasy, SHADE --- stops by with her third and final guest blog on the inspiration a
P.C. and Kristin Cast are the mother/daughter author duo behind the bestselling House of Night Young Adult series. Here they share both some humorous and serious aspects of writing together as mother and daughter.
What made you decide to write together?
P.C.: We write together? What? Who is this Kristin person of whom you speak?
