YA or Bust! Tour: Road Trip Edition

We had SO much fun last month. We got to sit down and chat with Stephanie Perkins, Nina LaCour, and Gayle Forman at Penguin's YA or Bust! tour stop at the Huntington Beach Barnes and Noble-- and that's not all! We also had the opportunity to moderate the author panel at the event. What an honor!

These fabulous authors had great crowd of enthusiastic readers, and we had a fantastic time interviewing them for both our podcast and the panel. This road trip edition of the podcast also marks the debut of our Teen Correspondent, Ava, who is completely awesome! Find her as @YAvaReads on Twitter. She attends a lot of book events in the SoCal area, and will join us as a third interviewer on the podcast when our schedules all match up.

We hope you enjoy our interview with these three amazing authors, as well as some event coverage featuring another awesome author who just happened to be in the crowd. Listen and find out who it is...!

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We also met a book vlogger at this event! Watch The Booktubenator's coverage of the YA or Bust event right here, including a mini interview with Authors are ROCKSTARS! toward the end...




And be sure to check out The Booktubenator'sYouTube channel for more awesomeness.

Next up on Authors are ROCKSTARS!, we have interviews with Martha Brockenbrough, Hilary Graham, Jenny Sanchez, Leigh Bardugo, Jessi Kirby and Anna Carey. We are so excited to bring you all of these great interviews! We'll also be attending ALA Annual in Anaheim next month, so be sure to find us and say hello. As always, thank you for listening!

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Marissa Meyer: Road Trip Edition

Today, we bring you our final interview from the fabulous Passion and Prose conference: Cinder author, Marissa Meyer. If you haven't read Cinder yet, you'll want to get on that... everyone is raving about it! We had a blast talking to Marissa about her fairy tale research and our mutual love of Sailor Moon, among many other things. 

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Thanks again to Susan, who organized the Passion and Prose conference, and to Marissa Meyer for chatting with us!

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Cynthia Hand: May Podcast

We had the opportunity to sit down at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena to chat with the very lovely Cynthia Hand, author of Unearthly and Hallowed.

Among other things, we talked with her about what it's like to be a New York Times bestselling author, the differences between writing Unearthly as a yet-to-be-published writer and writing its sequel with the pressures of being under contract. Cynthia also responded to some listener questions, so tune in to see if she's Team Tucker or Team Christian!

We also share our book picks of the month: Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein, and Unraveling, by Elizabeth Norris (Sensing a theme? Two Elizabeths!).

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Katherine Longshore: Debut Author Edition

We here at Authors are ROCKSTARS! are absolutely head over heels for historical fiction. So we were thrilled to chat with Katherine Longshore about her debut novel, Gilt, set the in court of King Henry VIII. Full of scandal and intrigue, it's a fascinating read.

We talked to Katy about her inspiration to write about Henry VII's court and what is the biggest challenge about writing historical fiction for a YA audience. Give it a listen and comment here to let Katy know you're excited to read her book! It's in bookstores everywhere this month from Viking Juvenile.


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Leah Bobet: Debut Author Edition

Attention, urban fantasy fans! We've got an interview for you: debut author Leah Bobet, who Skyped with us all the way from Canada. Her book, Above, came out last month from Arthur A. Levine Books. In this episode of the podcast, we talked about fanfiction for a TV show that doesn't exist, Leah's writing process, and Canadian literature-- which, as we were rather delighted to learn, is called "CanLit."



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Anniversary Giveaway Blooper Podcast

So, I bet you're here to find out if you won our epic anniversary giveaway. Thanks for coming.

Oh? You wanted me to tell you? Because we're kinda busy reading LIKE A BOSS. See photo for proof.

Oh, all right. We hear ya! We'll tell you... at the end of this short and silly blooper podcast. So, listen and see if you won one of the three prize packs.

Even you didn't win, we have a special giveaway for the giveaway podcast... it's a META GIVEAWAY!!! (Imagine that said in a monster truck rally voice.)

Here's how to enter: comment and tell us which blooper you enjoyed the most (translation: which one you thought was the goofiest). We'll choose one lucky person to receive a signed ARC of "Once" by Anna Carey! Deadline is Tuesday, May 15th.

EDIT: Congratulations to Ava! Random.org picked you. :)

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Thank you for being such wonderful listeners. We have had a fabulous time producing this podcast over the past year and are looking forward to sharing many more episodes in the years to come.

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Josephine Angelini Interview: Dreamless

We were thrilled to catch up with Josephine Angelini to talk about the second book in her Starcrossed trilogy, Dreamless, which hits bookstore shelves at the end of this month. We had Josie on the show around this time last year, before Starcrossed had even come out. It was exciting to talk to her again and hear about life as an international bestselling author!

Listen to the interview to find out about the new character in Dreamless that Josie had the most fun writing, and hear all about her work-in-progress project that we can look forward to once she's all finished with the Starcrossed series! (Spoiler: it sounds AWESOME.)

Enjoy the interview, and be sure to comment and let Josie know how much you're looking forward to reading Dreamless! And don't forget.. there are only a few more days left for you to sign up and win our anniversary giveaway, including some signed goodies from Josie!

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Breathless Reads - Road Trip Edition

You've heard us talking about the Passion & Prose conference all Spring, and here we are again, bringing you another awesome interview from that event! In this episode, we got to sit down with the ladies of the Breathless Reads tour, sponsored by Penguin.


What a lovely group of ladies, don't you think? Between the two gals in the blue shirts (us!), there's Beth Revis, Andrea Cremer, Marie Lu, Jessica Spotswood, and Sara Wilson Etienne. We had such a fun time chatting with this fabulous group of authors-- hope you enjoy the interview!


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And if you didn't catch our event coverage of the Passion & Prose conference, definitely check it out-- you get to hear a selection from the Breathless Reads panel presentation. And don't miss our interview with Meg Cabot, also conducted at Passion & Prose!

Coming up in May - Cynthia Hand, New York Times bestselling author of the Unearthly series, a follow-up interview with Starcrossed author Josephine Angelini, event coverage of the YA or Bust tour stop in Huntington Beach, and some more fabulous debut author editions. You better stay tuned. May is going to ROCK.

Hosting courtesy of archive.org. Intro music by 46bliss. The end song for this podcast is "Breathlessly Waiting" by liquid state. Be sure to subscribe to Authors are ROCKSTARS! on iTunes! Special thanks to Marc Conrad Tabula, our fantastic engineer who edited this interview and made it sound so very nice.