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Pedro Martin

Summer Blog Series: Pedro Martin

I come from a huge fam­i­ly. Eleven, plus my grand­fa­ther. So when­ev­er we would get togeth­er to trade sto­ries, there were usu­al­ly twelve sides to every story.

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Janet Wong

Summer Blog Series: Janet Wong

The gen­er­al idea to do a fun­ny book came to me dur­ing a writer’s work­shop. The writ­ers in the room want­ed to know my answer to the ques­tion, “What kinds of books need to be pub­lished nowa­days? What should we be writing?”

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Gordon Korman

Summer Blog Series: Gordon Korman

Let me say this first: I’m not a crim­i­nal. I don’t have a dis­hon­est bone in my body. But I got the idea for Fak­er when I start­ed won­der­ing: What hap­pens when fate forces ordi­nary peo­ple to break the law?

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Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Summer Blog Series: Rebecca Kai Dotlich

You might, or might not, love words. And you might, or might not, know it. Words that are deli­cious alone. Words that fit togeth­er like a puz­zle. Words that say some­thing to soothe your heart or make you think or make you laugh out loud.

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Bruce Coville

Summer Blog Series: Bruce Coville

“One of the most com­mon ques­tions I get in school vis­its is, ‘How long does it take to write a book?’ … I think the truest answer is that the time it takes to write a sto­ry is how old you were when you fin­ished writ­ing it.”

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Jolene Gutierrez

Summer Blog Series: Jolene Gutierrez

I thought that by writ­ing about a day that is stress­ful and over­whelm­ing, I would help some read­ers see them­selves in this book and I would help oth­ers under­stand what being over­whelmed feels like.

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Steve Sheinkin

Summer Blog Series: Steve Sheinkin

Peo­ple often say you should “write what you know.” Yeah, maybe. I think it’s more impor­tant to focus on some­thing that fas­ci­nates you, some­thing that real­ly fires your curiosity.

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Ellen Oh

Summer Blog Series: Ellen Oh

Author Ellen Oh shares that the idea for Haru, Zom­bie Dog Hero was inspired because “I love dogs. I have two of my own that I spoil more than my human chil­dren. Kiko is a very sweet gold­en doo­dle and Tok­ki is a grumpy coton.”

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