When her first novel was published in 1999, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes was only thirteen years old. She's released one book every year since, and her tenth book is on the horizon. I am happy to report that we share a favorite author (Christopher Golden!) and am flattered that Bildungsroman was chosen to be the first stop on Amelia's two-week blog tour.

How do feel your writing style changed since the publication of In the Forests of the Night?

I don't think I could even begin to fully answer this question...

My writing in general has grown in just about every way since I first started to publish. The world is more complex in my head - both the fictional one, which has grown with each story, and the real one, which I have lived in and studied through high school and college classes. I have trouble sometimes these days limiting a story, instead of including every little detail I want to about the history or the psychology or the political intrigues that play out in the work. Thankfully, I have a wonderful editor, who helps encourage me to find the meat of a story inside my early drafts.

Beyond that, my sense of a story and what goes into it has matured. I have more awareness of my audience as I write, which is both good and bad. I can deal with more of the plot at a time, planning more than I used to, which again sometimes works out for the best and sometimes trips me up when I over-think an early draft that should still be at the play stage.

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Follow Amelia's blog tour:

July 22nd: Bildungsroman
July 24th: Cheryl Rainfield
July 25th: BookLoons
July 28th: Mrs. Magoo Reads
July 30th: Teen Book Review
July 31st: Making Stuff Up for a Living
August 4th: Bookwyrm Chrysalis
August 5th: The Reading Zone
August 7th: Through a Glass, Darkly

This is the archive of exclusive author interviews conducted by Little Willow for the Bildungsroman blog and website. The most recent interview is the first to be listed.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (In the Forests of the Night)
Christopher Golden (Serial Interview, Part 11)
Paul Miller (Earthling Publications)
Christopher Golden (Serial Interview, Part 10)
Courtney Sheinmel (My So-Called Family)
Suzanne Supplee (Artichoke's Heart)
Brooke Taylor (Undone)
Christopher Golden (Serial Interview, Part 9)
Vivian French (The Robe of Skulls)
Christopher Golden (Serial Interview, Part 8)
E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski, and Lauren Myracle (How to Be Bad)
Christopher Golden (Serial Interview, Part 7)
Christopher Golden (Serial Interview, Part 6)
Alison McGhee (Snap)
Cherry Cheva (She's So Money)
Denise Vega (Fact of Life #31)
Christopher Golden (Serial Interview, Part 5)
Christopher Golden (Serial Interview, Part 4)
Christopher Golden (Serial Interview, Part 3)
E.M. Crane (Skin Deep)
Jennifer Bradbury (Shift)
Tera Lynn Childs (Oh. My. Gods.)
Susane Colasanti (Take Me There)
Christopher Golden (Serial Interview, Part 2)
Suzanne Harper (The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney)
Ingrid Law (Savvy)
Christina Meldrum (Madapple)
Gaby Triana (The Temptress Four)
Christopher Golden (Serial Interview, Part 1)
Shannon Hale (Book of a Thousand Days)
Liz Tigelaar (PrettyTOUGH)
April Lurie (The Latent Powers of Dylan Fontaine)
Sara Hantz (The Second Virginity of Suzy Green)
Jody Gehrman (Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty)
Laura Preble (Queen Geeks Social Club)
Robin Wasserman (Seven Deadly Sins, Skinned)
Josie Bloss (Band Geek Love)
Cheryl Klam (The Pretty One)
Teri Brown (Read My Lips)
Kim Flores (Gamma Glamma)
D. Anne Love (Defying the Diva)
Cecilia Galante (The Patron Saint of Butterflies, Hershey Herself)
Jennifer E. Smith (The Comeback Season)
Lisa McMann (Wake)
Dorian Cirrone (Prom Kings and Drama Queens)
Carmen Rodrigues (Not Anything)
Mary E. Pearson (The Adoration of Jenna Fox)
Maryrose Wood (My Life: The Musical)
Jennifer Ziegler (How NOT to Be Popular)
Jamie Ponti (Prama)
Siobhan Vivian (A Little Friendly Advice)
Sherri L. Smith (Hot, Salty, Sour, Sweet)
Robin Palmer (Cindy Ella)
Daphne Grab (Alive and Well in Prague, New York)
Lesley M.M. Blume (Tennyson)
Sara Lewis Holmes (Letters From Rapunzel)
Gabrielle Zevin (Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac)
Beth Kephart (Undercover, House of Dance)
Melissa Walker (Violet on the Runway)
Amy Goldman Koss (The Girls)
Meg Cabot (The Princess Diaries)
Liz Gallagher (The Opposite of Invisible)
Justina Chen Headley (Girl Overboard)
Aimee Ferris (Girl Overboard)
Jo Knowles (Lessons from a Dead Girl)
Kirsten Miller (Kiki Strike)
Michele Jaffe (Bad Kitty)
Sara Shepard (Pretty Little Liars)
Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List)
Micol Ostow (Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa)
Maureen Johnson (Girl at Sea)
Tom Sniegoski (Owlboy: The Girl with the Destructo Touch)
Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Punk Farm)
Erik Brooks (Lucy's Pups)
Eric Luper (Big Slick)
Paula Brehm-Heeger (2007-2008 YALSA President)
Justina Chen Headley, Lorie Ann Grover, and Janet Lee Carey (Readergirlz: 31 Flavorites)
Melissa Lion (Swollen, Upstream)
Christopher Golden (Body of Evidence)
Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Ironside)
Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)
Kelly Bingham (Shark Girl)
Simmone Howell (Notes from the Teenage Underground)
Deborah Davis (Not Like You)
Tom Sniegoski (Billy Hooten, Owlboy)
Sara Ryan (The Rules for Hearts)
Simone Elkeles (How to Ruin a Summer Vacation)
Julie Halpern (Get Well Soon)
Caroline Hickey (Cassie Was Here)
Gretchen Olson (Call Me Hope)
Stephanie Hale (Revenge of the Homecoming Queen)
C. Leigh Purtill (Love, Meg)
Dana Reinhardt (A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life)
Ysabeau Wilce (Flora Segunda)
Christopher Golden (The Menagerie: Crashing Paradise)
Jordan Sonnenblick (Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie)
Sameera "Sparrow" Righton via Mitali Perkins (First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover)
Sarah Beth Durst (Into the Wild)
Kristen Tracy (Lost It)
Alex Richards (Back Talk)
Janet Lee Carey (Dragon's Keep)
Sonya Sones (What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know)
Cecil Castellucci (Beige)
Joni Sensel (Reality Leak)
Dia Calhoun (The Phoenix Dance)
Nina Malkin (Orange is the New Pink)
Karen Day (Tall Tales)
Julie Bowe (My Last Best Friend)
Sarah Miller (Miss Spitfire)
Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak, Twisted)
Elizabeth Scott (Bloom)
Alex Flinn (Beastly, Diva)
Wendy Toliver (The Secret Life of a Teenage Siren)
Laura Bowers (Beauty Shop for Rent ...fully equipped, inquire within)
Jessica Day George (Dragon Slippers)
E. Lockhart (Dramarama)
Mary Wilcox (The Hollywood Sisters)
Debra Garfinkle (The Band)
Kristen Buckley (Tramps Like Us)
Crissa-Jean Chappell (Total Constant Order)
Liane Bonin (Fame Unlimited)
Heather Brewer (The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod)
Shannon Greenland (The Specialists)
Carrie Jones (Tips on Having a Gay (Ex) Boyfriend)
S.T. Underdahl (The Other Sister)
Kerry Madden (The Maggie Valley Trilogy)
Margo Rabb (Cures for Heartbreak)
Jenny Han (Shug, interview two)
Jennifer L. Holm (Penny From Heaven)
Justina Chen Headley, Lorie Ann Grover, Dia Calhoun, and Janet Lee Carey (Readergirlz)
Robin Friedman (The Girlfriend Project)
Tracie Vaughn Zimmer (Reaching for Sun)
Terie Garrison (The DragonSpawn Cycle)
Lisa Graff (The Thing about Georgie)
Alison Bell (Zibby Payne and the Terrible, Wonderful Tomboy Experiment)
Jeannine Garsee (Before, After, and Somebody In Between)
Deb Caletti (The Nature of Jade)
Wendy Mass (Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life)
Paula Chase (So Not the Drama)
Melissa Schorr (Goy Crazy)
Nina Wright (Homefree)
Helen Hemphill (Runaround)
Sara Zarr (Story of a Girl)
Christopher Golden (The Veil)
Garret Freymann-Weyr (Stay With Me)
Lauren Baratz-Logsted (Angel's Choice)
Kirby Larson (Hattie Big Sky)
Lesley M.M. Blume (Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters)
Bonnie Dobkin (Dream Spinner)
Pamela Lowell (Returnable Girl)
Lisa Yee (Millicent Min, Girl Genius)
Raina Telgemeier (BSC Graphix)
Marcy Dermansky (Twins)
Christine MacLean (How It's Done)
Alex McAulay (Bad Girls)
Kelly Parra (Graffiti Girl)
Janette Rallison (It's a Mall World After All)
Amy Saidens (Simon Pulse book cover artist)
Micol Ostow (30 Guys in 30 Days)
Erin Downing (Dancing Queen)
Aimee Friedman (A Novel Idea)
Kelly McClymer (Getting to Third Date)
Jennifer Echols (Major Crush)
Niki Burnham (Do-Over)
Sarah Bushweller and Emily S. Morris aka Libby Street (Accidental It Girl)
Gena Showalter (Oh My Goth)
Justina Chen Headley (Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies))
Bev Katz Rosenbaum (I Was a Teenage Popsicle)
Christopher Golden (Straight on 'til Morning)
Laura Wiess (Such a Pretty Girl)
Cara Lockwood (Bard Academy: Wuthering High)
Caridad Ferrer (Adios to My Old Life, interview two)
Beth Killian (The 310: Life as a Poser)
Jenny O'Connell (Plan B)
Tara Altebrando (The Pursuit of Happiness, interview two)
Susan Taylor Brown (Hugging the Rock)
Jenny Han (Shug)
Justine Larbalestier and Scott Westerfeld (Magic or Madness, Uglies)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Golden)
Tom Sniegoski (Serial Interview, Part 4)
A. Lee Martinez (Gil's All Fright Diner)
Tom Sniegoski (Serial Interview, Part 3)
Jordan Roter (Girl in Development)
Tom Sniegoski (Serial Interview, Part 2)
Lorie Ann Grover (On Pointe, Hold Me Tight)
Caridad Ferrer (Adios to My Old Life)
Chris Abouzeid (Anatopsis)
Tom Sniegoski (Serial Interview, Part 1)
Ally Carter (I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You)
Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)
Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist)
Tanya Lee Stone (A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl)
Serena Robar (braced2bite)
Mari Mancusi (Boys That Bite)
Cynthia Lord (Rules)
Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
Tara Altebrando (The Pursuit of Happiness)
Polly Shulman (Enthusiasm)
Jeanne Birdsall (The Penderwicks)
Amber Benson and Christopher Golden (Ghosts of Albion: Accursed)
Christopher Golden (Last Breath)

This archive is mirrored at the Bildungsroman website.

The Robe of Skulls, Vivian French's newest book for children, includes a lonely young girl, a villainess, a troll, a werewoman, crones, and many young royals. Some are turned into frogs, some go on quests, and some are up to no good - and somewhere along the way, all of their paths cross. When my path crossed with Vivian's, we spoke of good books, classic fairy tales, and funny bones.

At the start of your story, poor little Gracie Gillypot is punished for being pleasant! Have you ever gotten in trouble for being happy? (I have, and it was a truly odd experience.)

I'm not sure about getting into trouble for being happy, but I've got thrown out of several libraries for laughing too loudly - AND out of a bookstore! (I was reading Susan Juby's book, "Alice, I Think." Have you read it? It's HILARIOUS!)

Yes, and I agree! It's quite funny. I like that series.

And when I was at college I once had a terrible fit of the giggles during a very serious seminar. The tutor read an extract from a novel: 'She sighed deeply, dropped her eyes, and sank to the floor' and I thought it was hysterically funny ... but nobody else did. They gave me disapproving looks, and tut tutted. I suspect I had a shallow and frivolous nature as a student ... and I'm not sure I've improved a lot since.

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Visit Vivian's website.

Last year, Colleen from Chasing Ray organized a series of author interviews which were posted at various blogs over the course of a week. It was dubbed the Summer Blog Blast Tour, or SBBT for short, and it definitely was a blast. The SBBT led to the Winter Blog Blast Tour, which was also successful.

Now it's time for the second SBBT, and I'm happy to be participating in it again. Here at Bildungsroman, I've posted all-new interviews with Susane Colasanti, Tera Lynn Childs, and Jennifer Bradbury.

( Click here for the full SBBT 2008 schedule )

Many thanks to all of the authors and bloggers involved in the SBBT, with special kudos to Colleen.

When :01 First Second asked me to join their vampiric litblog tour, I immediately knew what I'd talk about: Christopher Golden's The Shadow Saga, as well as his works connecting to the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

I can thank Buffy the Vampire Slayer for getting me in touch with Christopher Golden, who is one of my closest friends and biggest supporters.

In 1997, Pocket Books decided to launch a line of BtVS books, starting with Richie Tankersley Cusick's novelization of the premiere episode. (Cusick had also written the novelization of the film five years earlier.) It was followed by Halloween Rain, the first-ever original BtVS novel, written by Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder. Because I watched and enjoyed the show, I naturally wanted to sink my teeth into the new books as well.

After reading Golden's Slayer stories, I looked him up at the bookstore and at the library to see if he had written anything else. He had. His first novel, Of Saints and Shadows, had been released just a few years earlier. It too was about vampires. In fact, it was the first volume in trilogy.* Intrigued, I drifted into Shadows and didn't emerge until I was finished.

*Years later, he wrote and released a fourth Octavian book, The Gathering Dark. Though it's definitely a continuation of the trilogy, I feel as though it can also be read independently of the series. The Gathering Dark is actually my favorite book in The Shadow Saga. I swear it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm in it.

As I stated in an earlier post, The Shadow Saga contains what Buffy Summers would describe as "violence, strong language, adult content." These books are intense, frightening, and, let me say it again, dark. They discuss vampirism, life, death, immortality, magick, and religion. They are not for children. They are for anyone who likes vampire tales.

The order of publication is as follows:
- Of Saints and Shadows
- Angel Souls and Devil Hearts
- Of Masques and Martyrs
- The Gathering Dark

Golden has stated repeatedly that he'd like to write more books in the Saga. If and when he does, I'll be first in line to read them. The people who saw me the day The Gathering Dark came out can testify to that.

Golden wrote many, many BtVS/Angel novels and comics. The Gatekeeper Trilogy, co-authored with Nancy Holder, was an impressive undertaking. Golden detailed the dark pasts of the villains and of the Watchers Council in the historical novel Spike & Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row. I loved the serial novel The Lost Slayer, the premise and setting of which allowed Golden free reign. There's a very special place in my heart for Monster Island, the first-ever BtVS/Angel crossover novel, which Golden wrote with Thomas E. Sniegoski.

I could go on and on, but I'll sum it up like this: Golden has proved time and time again that he not only understands but respects the worlds which others create and into which he is invited, such as the Slayerverse. Better still, when his imagination is allowed to run freely in his original stories such as The Shadow Saga, Strangewood, and The Boys are Back in Town, you never know what he'll create - but you know it's going to be good.

Learn more about Christopher Golden, The Shadow Saga, and Golden's BtVS/Angel novels.

If you've yet to read any Golden books and are looking through his backlist of 100+ releases, please allow me to suggest where to start.

Check out the serial interview with Christopher Golden.

Take a ride on the :01 First Second vampiric litblog tour.

From March 14th until March 27th, Simon & Schuster held a Blogfest featuring over a hundred Simon Pulse authors. Readers submitted their questions via the Blogfest website and MySpace page. S&S then selected questions from that overflowing pool and posted the authors' responses each day of the event.

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( The list of authors scheduled to take part in Blogfest )

Footnotes

mediabistro/GalleyCat noted that this new event was inspired by the success of the 31 Flavorite Authors event held last October by readergirlz and YALSA. Thank you, mediabistro.

I'm honored to be a stop on Sherri L. Smith's blog tour.

In each of Sherri's books, the protagonist's struggles are closely related to her family life: In Lucy the Giant, Lucy was abandoned her mother and feels burdened by her alcoholic father. In Sparrow, Kendall lost her immediate family at a young age, then her guardian grandmother on the cusp of adulthood. In Smith's brand-new story, Hot, Salty, Sour, Sweet, Ana's parents are loving, but her grandparents are competitive. Thus, the first question I posed to the author was:

Which girl is the most like you at that age and why?

Wow, that's a tough question. Readers sometimes assume that all books are autobiographical. I remember my first book signing for Lucy the Giant—the manager of the store took one look at me, frowned and said, “I thought you’d be taller!” I'm a good foot shorter than Lucy, hands down. While I can certainly relate to all of my characters — I have felt as awkward and ungainly as Lucy, and as lonely and determined as Kendall — Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet is the first book I've written based on my life, or at least a version of my future child's life. My husband is Chinese American and I'm African American, like Ana's parents. Ana's story came about from my speculating about the lives our children will lead. Ana's family is actually pretty different from my own—fortunately there are no dueling grandparents—but there are similarities between my and my husband's families that I echo in Ana's story. Lastly, like Ana, I was also a salutatorian in eighth grade, but I didn't learn to make pot stickers until high school.

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Join Sherri L. Smith on her blog tour this month:
February 12th: Finding Wonderland
February 18th: Bildungsroman
February 21st: The YA YA YAs
February 26th: Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
February 28th: The Brown Bookshelf - "28 Days Later" Black History Month Celebration of Children's Literature

Visit Sherri's website.

Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet by Sherri L. Smith takes place over the course of one day, starting at a girl's eighth grade graduation. Ana's entire family and both sets of grandparents come to her graduation ceremony, which is literally disastrous: a water pipe breaks, dousing the graduates just as Ana was beginning her salutatorian speech. After graduation, at the nudging of her best friend, she manages to invite her crush Jamie over for dinner.

It sounds simple enough, but it's not. Her grandparents don't really get along. Ana's mom is African-American and her dad is Chinese-American. Ana, her parents, and her bouncy little brother are happy and well, but the grands always experience a cultural clash when they are in the same room. The grandmothers frequently try to one-up each other with gifts and stories. Now they'll try to do the same as they race to prepare the perfect dishes for Ana's impromptu graduation dinner.

As if it weren't trouble enough having all of the grandparents in the kitchen cooking up completely different foods, some unexpected guests arrive, further complicating things. When Ana steps out of the kitchen and looks around the dinner table, she's bound to be surprised. Ultimately, her family's different cultures and tastes blend together and compliment each other, and the ending, like the meal, is satisfying for Ana.

A quick G-rated read for middle school students that encourages the blending and appreciation of different cultures. Maybe a little predictable, but fairly innocuous.

I also recommend Smith's previous releases: Lucy the Giant, the tale of a taller-than-average teen who leaves behind her alcoholic father and works on a crabbing boat; and Sparrow, the story of a girl raised by her grandmother after her parents and little brother were killed in a car accident when she was a toddler, who must find a new guardian after another tragedy strikes.

Sherri L. Smith dropped by Bildungsroman on Monday, February 18th, as part of her blog tour!

Robert's Snow official press release from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute:

Be bold! Make it snow!

Art galleries in New England will become a winter wonderland starting this October as Robert's Snow: for Cancer's Cure, a benefit for sarcoma research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Mass., gets underway. More than 200 well-known children's book illustrators from around the world, including Mo Willems (Knuffle Bunny series), Kevin Hawkes (The Library Lion) and Patricia Polacco (Rotten Richie and the Ultimate Dare), have been given a five-inch wooden snowflake to transform into an original piece of art to be auctioned off online. Like actual snowflakes, each design is unique.

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Contact:
Elizabeth Chernack
Dana-Farber
(617) 632-4687
elizabeth_chernack@dfci.harvard.edu

Blogging for a Cure

Jules and Eisha of Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast said it best:

It's time, everyone! It's time for the Blogging for a Cure effort to begin! Seven cheers for all the bloggers who will be highlighting some of the 2007 snowflakes and the illustrators who created them in the name of helping to raise money to fight cancer for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Back in September, the call to bloggers began, and over 70 bloggers responded, saying that they'd like to do what they can in this multi-blog, cross-posting effort to drive traffic to the online Robert's Snow auctions and help raise money, we hope, for cancer research. And it's all in the memory of Robert Mercer, Grace Lin's husband, who recently passed away due to a rare form of cancer.

But starting [October 15th] - and lasting for over one month until the day before the auctions - over 65 bloggers will be highlighting some of the snowflakes and the illustrators who created them. [ . . . ] It will be a cinch for folks interested in bidding on a snowflake to find all the spots in cyberspace where bloggers will be featuring them and the talented folks who created them. We hope their interest is so piqued that they go and purchase a snowflake (or two or three).

I profiled illustrator Erik Brooks in this post filled with polar bears and puppy dogs.

If you'd like to support this blogging project, please contact Jules at seventhings *at* blaine *dot* org

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Additional Links

Visit Seven Impossible Things and bookmark the archive of snowflake posts.

Sheri created this video which features the snowflakes.

One of Gina's posts about the project was picked up by USA Today.

Readergirlz will be giving Grace and Robert a special shoutout in their November 2007 issue. Learn more.

See the Snowflakes

The Danforth Museum in Framingham featured the snowflakes October 31st through December 2nd, 2007. The Robert's Snow Artist Reception was held at the museum on November 4th.

Ornaments!

Author Sam Riddleburger created these lovely ornaments, which anyone may easily download and print.

Once More

If you'd like to support this blogging project, please contact Jules at seventhings *at* blaine *dot* org

Micol Ostow is a writer, a student, a runner, a dog owner, a Scrabble enthusiast, and a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. Yes, you read that correctly. Now read the interview to find out how she manages to juggle it all.

You drew upon your Puerto Rican and Jewish heritage to write Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa, which comes out in paperback today! Tell us more about the story, and what else you and Emily have in common.

That's a good question! I think that because Emily and I share similar cultural backgrounds, people expect the story to be much more autobiographical than it actually is. Like Emily, I was raised Jewish (my mother converted before she married my father), but I have more contact with my Catholic family than Emily does. My mother's mother passed away a few years ago, and while it was very traumatic and emotional for all of us, as a catalyst, it sort of functioned exactly the opposite of Emily's grandmother's death.

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Anything else you care to share?

Support your local libraries and independent booksellers! And read read read!

I agree! Thanks, Micol.

Visit Micol in person today at NYPL's Teen Central Jewish Book Month panel featuring Micol Ostow, Judy Goldschmidt, David Levithan, Sarah Mlynowski, and Lisa Ann Sandell

Thursday, November 8th at 4 PM
Donnell Library Center
20 West 53rd Street
(212) 621-0619

Visit Micol online at her website (I hope you like it!) and blog.

Read my previous interview with Micol.

Check out Gwenda's WBBT interview with Micol.

Today's WBBT Schedule
David Mack at Chasing Ray
Paul Volponi at The Ya Ya Yas
Elizabeth Knox at Shaken & Stirred
Ellen Emerson White at A Chair, A Fireplace and A Tea Cozy
Jack Gantos at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
David Levithan at Not Your Mother's Book Club
Micol Ostow at Bildungsroman
Laura Amy Schlitz at Miss Erin
Kerry Madden at Hip Writer Mama
Sherman Alexie at Interactive Reader