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Meet Zuni. She's sweet, silly, ever-so-charming, and full of bright ideas. Her family has a memory jar. Anytime someone in the family does something important, they mark those moments through notes and photos stored in the jar and share those memories together at the end of the year. A deceptively simple story for young and old alike, Zuni and the Memory Jar is a reminder to celebrate everyday moments in life along with grand achievements. We love this idea and asked author Aisha Saeed to tell us more!, Tell us about your career and where you worked before you became a writer. What inspired those career choices? Before becoming a writer, I was a second-grade teacher and later, [...]

Allie Millington, author of the USA Today and Indie Bookstore Bestseller book, Olivetti, considers herself 'old in soul, yet young in heart.' As a child, the one thing she wanted [...]

The word 'crush' is so closely tied to tweens that its use later in life is usually self-deprecating. 'When you're an adult,' says middle grade novelist Maggie Horne, confessing that [...]

Robert Harris considers himself a lucky man. 'I've been very fortunate in life,' he told me, gesturing as if to tap his head, then thinking better of it and instead [...]

Mincarelli's third book, One Thing of Value, found its inspiration in the Alexandre Bisson play Madame X, which tells the story of a lawyer defending a woman accused of murder [...]

Author Shaun David Hutchinson has a multi-faceted background. In addition to studying medieval and renaissance literature at Florida Atlantic University, he's been involved with emergency medicine, firefighting, and is EMT certified., Although in recent years he's held a position in the computer industry, Shaun segued into a career using his creative talents and has written a long list of YA fiction, [...]

Meg Medina, the 2023-2024 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature (an initiative of the Library of Congress in partnership with Every Child a Reader), received the 2019 Newbery Medal for [...]

On a recent tour of British bookshops, the American author Percival Everett visited Bath. He spent some time signing copies of his most recent book, James, in the independent bookshop [...]

How do you organize your books? Like everything in my life, it's kind of random. I've got reading stations all over the ranch, and I'm pretty sure I'm the only [...]

Spending time with bestselling author Diana Palmer, the pen name of Susan Spaeth Kyle, is not unlike reading one of the western romances that made her famous. She's a consummate [...]

"It's 'Ocean's Eight', but everybody's a lesbian and it's in space," says Makana Yamamoto over video call from their home in Boston, Massachusetts, of their debut novel HammajangLuck. "That's the [...]

The winter of 1962-63 was an extraordinary one. Snow that first fell in December was still lying in March during one of the coldest and longest winters on record. The [...]

Lucy Jane Wood's delightful cat Flo is very charismatic. Not only does the tortoiseshell make a very welcome appearance on screen during our chat over video call, but the feline [...]

Both Same as It Ever Was and your debut, The Most Fun We Ever Had, are lengthy novels that examine family dynamics over decades. What draws you to this type [...]

When Daniel Lohr's and Leah Auerbach's eyes meet as they wait to board the SS Raffaello, their connection is instant and electric. The year is 1939, and they've both booked [...]

Stephen King AUTHOR; 76; BANGOR, MAINE FAME IS A PAIN IN THE ASS. The older you get, the more of a pain in the ass it is. But you have [...]

'I'd long wanted to write this story set in the future about two telepathic girls--since my own teens when I first read John Wyndham's The Chrysalids,' Moira Buffini tells me, [...]

The crime writer Karin Slaughter has been plugging away at a new novel from her secluded cabin in Blue Ridge, Ga., and recently, the distant revving of a chain saw [...]

Chris Bohjalian is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 24 books. His work has been translated into 35 languages and become three movies and an Emmy-winning TV series, [...]

Wall Street Journal bestselling author Isabella Maldonado wore a gun and badge in real life before turning to crime writing. The first Latina to attain the rank of captain in [...]