Debut Author Interviews

Your questions to the debut children's and YA authors of the Class of 2k7 have challenged us to define our writing process, our books, and ourselves.

Our answers appear first on the Class of 2k7 Collective Blog and are then sorted by question and author here for your viewing pleasure. We tackle a new question each week, so keep dropping by for updates!

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• Aug 06, 2007 - Carrie Jones on...Favorite Bookstore
• Aug 06, 2007 - Ruth McNally Barshaw on...Favorite Bookstore
• Aug 06, 2007 - S.A. Harazin on...Favorite Bookstore
• Aug 06, 2007 - Greg R. Fishbone on...Favorite Bookstore
• Aug 06, 2007 - Eric Luper on...Favorite Bookstore
• Aug 06, 2007 - Kelly Bingham on...Favorite Bookstore
• Aug 06, 2007 - Paula Chase on...Favorite Bookstore
• Aug 06, 2007 - A.C.E. Bauer on...Favorite Bookstore
• Aug 06, 2007 - Sarah Beth Durst on...Favorite Bookstore
• Aug 06, 2007 - G. Neri on...Favorite Bookstore

Who would play your book character in a movie? - 10 answers

How much revision did you do AFTER you sold your book to your publisher? - 15 answers

Is an agent useful or necessary for a first-time author? - 13 answers

Who is the target audience for your book? - 13 answers

What is your earliest book memory? - 21 answers

How did you celebrate your book sale? - 13 answers

Is your main character like yourself? - 18 answers

What drew you to the conflict you created for your main character? - 18 answers

How did you know you were “done” with your book and ready to submit it? - 22 answers

Did the art director read your entire book to get inspiration for the cover? - 11 answers

Do you belong to a writing group? - 14 answers

How did you choose your editor and was he or she the “dream editor” you wanted? - 13 answers

Now that you’re under contract, does your family better appreciate your writing? - 21 answers

What was your favorite book when you were your protagonist’s age? - 9 answers

Do you have a favorite bookstore? - 10 answers

Describe your favorite library. - 12 answers

Describe your favorite teacher when you were your protagonist’s age. - 14 answers

Was this the first full-length novel you wrote, or rather the first that you sold? - 23 answers

If you had an ideal reader, who would that be and why? - 17 answers

Where did you get the idea for your book? - 27 answers

What should readers get from your book? - 14 answers

What books had an impact on you when you were growing up? - 17 answers

What career would you pursue if you weren’t a writer? - 15 answers

Do you outline before writing? - 22 answers

How much research and/or meditation about your subject did you do before you began your first draft? - 18 answers

What is your plan to get the word out to the public about your book? - 15 answers

Describe the query letter that got you published. - 7 answers

What are some of your current favorite writing or author-help books? - 18 answers

Where is your novel set, and why there? - 21 answers

What has surprised you the most so far? - 8 answers

Do you have different taste in kids’ books as an adult writer than as a kid? - 10 answers

What happened when you received ‘The Call’ that your book would be published? - 14 answers

What writing training have you had? - 22 answers

Do you have a website for your book? How did you handle setting it up? - 14 answers

What’s next after your debut novel? - 13 answers

Why write for children and teens? - 19 answers

Why do you write? - 15 answers

What is your writing process? - 11 answers

What is your writing schedule? - 14 answers