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Author News & Interviews

Interview: Louis Bayard, author of The Black Tower

Sep 5, 2008

September 5, 2008

Bestselling author Louis Bayard's most recent work of historical fiction, THE BLACK TOWER, poses a hypothetical "what if" surrounding members of the Royal Family in the tumultuous years following the French Revolution.

Interview: Jeff Smith, author of Bone: One-Volume Edition

Aug 22, 2008

August 22, 2008

Artist and author Jeff Smith is the creator of the Bone series, which has been hailed as one of the 10 greatest graphic novels of all time.

Interview: Matt Rothschild, author of Dumbfounded: Big Money. Big Hair. Big Problems. or Why Having It All Isn't for Sissies.

Aug 15, 2008

August 15, 2008

In this interview with Bookreporter.com's Shannon Luders-Manuel, Matt Rothschild --- author of the coming-of-age memoir DUMBFOUNDED --- names the famous essayist who inspired him to pen his own story and reflects on how his family would have reacted to his written portrayal of them in his full-length debut.

Interview: Olivia Gardner, author of Letters to a Bullied Girl: Messages of Healing and Hope

Aug 8, 2008

August 8, 2008

When sisters Emily and Sarah Buder read a news article in 2006 about Olivia Gardner --- a teenage girl who had been the victim of excessive bullying for over two years --- they launched a letter-writing campaign at their school in hopes of offering her words of comfort. Their local project managed to take on a life of its own, and some of the thousands of letters and e-mails they received worldwide have been compiled and published in LETTERS TO A BULLIED GIRL: Messages of Healing and Hope.

Interview: Andrew Davidson, author of The Gargoyle

Aug 8, 2008

August 8, 2008

In this interview with Bookreporter.com's Sarah Rachel Egelman, debut author Andrew Davidson describes how a combination of unlikely inspiration and simple curiosity prompted him to write his highly anticipated first novel, THE GARGOYLE, and provides some insight into the story's recurring motifs, as well as the behavior of its characters.