Sara Zarr » author interviews

Introducing T. Michael Martin

Sara — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:03:23 +0000

In Febrary, 2010, I offered up a manuscript critique as an auction item for a local fundraiser. I specified "contemporary realism", citing not bias but a greater confidence level when it came to giving feedback. Soon I received an email from a guy na

Q&A with Adele Griffin

Sara — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:15:32 +0000

I've been a fan of Adele Griffin's for a long, long time. And I don't mean to make her feel old by saying "long, long" instead of merely "long." We're the same age, after all. What I'm saying is: Adele began publishing back in the day when YA occupie

An Interview with Tara Altebrando

Sara — Thu, 26 May 2011 19:44:26 +0000

Tara Altebrando and I were born within 24 hours of each other, on opposite sides of the country. We made contact in 2006 and have been friends--and fans of each other's work--ever since. She's the author of three novels for young adults, and two for

Q&A with Sara Bennett Wealer + RIVAL giveaway

Sara — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:59:17 +0000

I've been looking forward to this blog post for well over a year now, if you can believe that. Around that time I was reading Rival, by Sara Bennett Wealer, to potentially blurb. Well, "potentially" isn't exactly right because I'd read the book in dr

In Conversation with Matt de la Peña

Sara — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:05:33 +0000

Matt de la Peña is the author of three acclaimed novels for young adults, and has also had short fiction published in various literary journals. I've known Matt awhile---our friendship began when we were forced to ride around in a stretch limo toget

in which Lisa Yee shamelessly exploits me (okay not really)

Sara — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:24:39 +0000

Lisa Yee was one of the first and nicest people I met when I started connecting with other writers for kids and young adults back in the day. She is smart and funny, sure, but more importantly we have almost the exact same taste in movies and she's s

Q&A with E. Lockhart (making disreputable histories popular since aught eight)

Sara — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:01:43 +0000

Long ago and far away, I met E. Lockhart the way a lot of us authors meet: online. I immediately developed a girl crush on her, because she's super smart, cool, funny, and nice. Then, I started reading her books and became a fan of her writing, not j

Holiday Gift-Buying Guide Special: chatting with the authors of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

Sara — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:08:45 +0000

Like a lot of food-lovers, I harbor many kitchen fantasies about fresh-baked bread. Fresh bread is pretty much the ultimate definition of home and hearth, and the person who bakes her own bread is als

Donna Freitas and the possibilities of faith in YA

Sara — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:12:56 +0000

I met Donna Freitas about a year ago at Kindling Words, when we struck up a conversation in the lobby of the inn and discovered connections crackling all over the place. She told me about her work as an assistant professor of religion as well

an authentic experience with Tara Altebrando

Sara — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:53:56 +0000

In a rare MySpace success story, Tara Altebrando and I found each other on that notorious social networking site back 2006, when I won a copy of her first YA novel, The Pursuit of Happiness, which I truly loved. We discovered we were born within 24