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Anna Godbersen is coming to Texas…THIS WEEKEND!

January 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

 

Anna Godbersen author of The Luxe series and her latest release Bright Young Things, will be in Texas this Saturday January 22nd, 2011 at the Montgomery County Teen Book Festival.  Details are below!

EVENTS

1/22/2011 — The Woodlands, TX
Montgomery County Teen Book Festival
(936) 709-3061
11am-5pm

Official website for Montgomery County Teen book festival Click here

Schedule

Map

For those who have not attended in the past, this is the seventh annual festival and the website gives you a lot more information as to what other authors will be attending, what you can do and see while you are there as well as the overall goal of the day!

For those of you who plan to attend, have fun!  I really wish I could get my copy of Bright Young Things signed!

 

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Interview with Shay Mitchell – PLL (Emily)

December 29, 2010 By 1 Comment

I was able to participate in a Q&A interview session with Shay Mitchell from the ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars. I hope you enjoy the interview below.

-Brandi-

ABC Family’s Q&A Session with Ashley Benson – Pretty Little Liars

Moderator How important are social networking sites to the promotion of shows like Pretty Little Liars, that’s still kind of new?

S. Mitchell They are getting increasingly more important and more important.  I mean with Twitter and with Facebook and MySpace, it plays a very big part of the whole marketing strategy.  And I think the reason is because you can reach so many more people from across the world.  Twitter, I don’t even know how many fan pages and everything we have, and it’s in Brazil and Australia and everywhere.  I don’t know, it’s bringing the world a little bit closer.  So, yes, it’s extremely important for the marketing team to be on top of everything and on those pages and have their own pages just so you keep up with everything else that’s moving so fast.

Moderator With the show becoming such a bit hit, how do you deal with all of the attention and popularity you’re getting now?

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Interview with Kaleb Nation

August 31, 2010 By 1 Comment

Interview with Kaleb Nation by B. Marie


B.Marie: “In your bio on KalebNation.com, it is mentioned that you began writing as a child. What types of stories did your young mind come up with? How did you share these stories with others or did you keep them to yourself?”

Kaleb: My first story (the one I was forced to write by my mother, because back then I hated writing) was about a certain person named King Kaleb who rode in a submarine under the North Pole and met with aliens. After I finished it and realized just how much I enjoyed writing (after all, in my stories I could be King all I wanted) I wrote mostly science fiction before moving to fantasy for a while, then finally years later starting on Bran Hambric. I shared them with my siblings by printing them up in little booklets.


B.Marie: “Do you share any similarities with your character Bran Hambric or do you consider yourself to be a complete opposite?”

Kaleb: I actually think Bran has a lot in common with me, but only in indirectly similar ways. For example he likes to draw, I like to write. We also talk similarly. I’m not sure how it happens, but I think almost every character an author writes will always have a piece of them in it.


B.Marie: “I know writers have little things they do, eat, or listen to while writing to help them focus or draw in inspiration. What are some crazy things you do or have around while going through the writing process?”

Kaleb: When I write, I’m always listening to a movie soundtrack, usually something by Thomas Newman or Harry Gregson-Williams. And when I’m having a particularly hard time concentrating I chew on Eclipse mints, because they’re crunchy. Then I found out you’re not supposed to have more than three or four of those a day or you get stomachaches. But at least it’s better than the energy drinks I was addicted to while I wrote the second Bran Hambric book!


B.Marie:: “How is Chilla doing?”

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Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Interview

August 14, 2010 By 1 Comment

Photo credit is Vania Stoyanova

Interview with Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl with B. Marie



B.Marie: “How did the two of you come to be friends and then partners in crime for The Caster Chronicles?”

Kami: I was Margie’s oldest daughter’s third grade teacher. We both love books, and found ourselves talking books all the time, which led to lots of hanging out & drinking Diet Coke.

B.Marie: “Okay Margaret, on your website bio it mentioned you “designed and wrote for lots of video games”. I love video games and love you even more after finding out that you had named one of your beloved beagles after my favorite video game of all time, “Zelda”. Do you yourself currently play any video games? Is there a game right now that you can’t get enough of or is there one that has caught your eye?”

Margie: Right now, it’s more of a family thing. I never get sick of Rock Band, though I stink at the drums. We just got Starcraft 2, which hopefully will take over from Angry Birds. 17 and 15 have been busy with Assassin’s Creed. 9 is all about Little Big Planet.

B.Marie: “Kami, your turn. Again, after stealing a peak at your bio on the website in the last sentence on the page you said “you love disaster movies”, let me just say we are kindred spirits (to quote Anne of Green Gables) for I too love disaster movies, especially when the world is coming to an end (strange, I know). What is a favorite disaster movie of yours? Is there one out there that you never tire of watching?”

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Interview with Sara Shepard

May 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Below you will find a transcript from an official interview conducted with Pretty Little Liars author Sara Shepard.

The transcript features Sara speaking about her involvement in the show’s casting process, how she gained success as an author, and what it is like for her to watch her novels come to life on the television screen.

A big THANK YOU to Meg from New Media Strategies for sharing this with us!

Check out the latest on Pretty Little Liars at the ABC Family site!

Enjoy everyone!

ABC Family’s Q&A Session with Sara Shepard

Moderator:                    I was wondering how much influence did you have in the casting process?

S. Shepard:                  I did not have input into the casting process.  That was all done on the other side of the country, so I didn’t know who they were going to cast, but when they did cast the girls I was very excited to see who they chose to be Ali, who they chose to be Aria, and Spencer and all of the rest.  They don’t necessarily look like the girls that I described in the books but I think that’s okay because they really embody each of the characters and they do a great job playing.

Spencer is a great Spencer; Emily is a great Emily; they might not look precisely like the dolls on the cover but they’re great representations of the girls.

Moderator:                    How does it feel as an author to have your book come to life on screen?

S. Shepard:                  It’s pretty crazy.  I’ve seen the pilot, that’s the only – I know they’re shooting more episodes but the pilot is the only one that I’ve seen and it is really, really close to the first book; so many little details like Aria’s pet pig Petunia makes an appearance which is in the book which is based on something in my life. Aria comes back from Iceland.

All of the scenes are what I wrote so it was really – I just kind of kept giggling the whole time that I saw it because it was surreal, but really amazing.  I almost couldn’t comprehend what I was seeing that this thing that I thought of is now on TV.  It’s pretty great.

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