There’s a brief paragraph at the end of the book you just read – and chances are the story behind it is just as interesting and inspiring as the story that preceded it. Join Bookstacked writer Saul Marquez as he sits down with Children’s and Young Adult book authors to learn how they discovered writing, broke into publishing, and achieved everything else that happened in between and after.
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Tyler Whitesides: Pursuing a Dream and Writing Fantasy
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The janitors cleaning your middle school are magical wizards.Sounds crazy, but that’s the premise behind Tyler Whiteside’s mega-popular children’s fantasy series Janitors. He got the idea while working a custodial job as a college student. Writing the book launched his career, allowing him to become a full-time author almost immediately after gradu…
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Liana Gardner: Writing in the face of Adversity
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Liana Gardner has a passion for writing – she started when she was just nine-years-old!She also has a passion for good books. It was her frustration with the books her younger sister was reading that led her to write her award-winning novels Misfit McCabe and Nowhere Feels Like Home.And then in 2013, she received some life-changing news: she had le…
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Obert Skye: Imagination & impacting children through writing
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Obert Skye has a rule: “If it’s funny, say it!”It’s that sort of humor that fills the pages of his books. Having written 30 books, Obert Skye is probably best known for his Leven Thumps series. In our second episode of About the Author, he sits down with us to discuss his approach to writing. (Hint: it’s all about the crazy, funny and weird!)Obert …
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Mark Jeffrey: Podcasting a novel and self-publishing
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Mark Jeffrey has always thought outside the box. He’s first and foremost an entrepreneur -- that’s his thing. So it wasn’t a surprise when he approached self-publishing differently than most.He gave his book away for free.But we’re not talking about Kindle-Daily-Special-free either (the Kindle hadn’t even been invented yet!). He read his novel in f…
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Join Bookstacked writer Saul Marquez as he sits down with Children’s and Young Adult book authors to learn how they discovered writing, broke into publishing, and achieved everything else that happened in between and after.To learn more about the show, visit http://author.bookstacked.com.
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