Category: Interviews

This month, I had the pleasure of interviewing Julie Klein, freelance editor extraordinaire. Julie and I met in 2015 through the Northwest Editors Guild when I was searching for an editor for my middle-grade novel, THE CONTENDERS. I emailed three editors that I found through the guild and received sample edits and estimates from two … Continue reading Interview with Editor Julie Klein

This month, I had the pleasure of interviewing Sandra Evans, author of the delightful middle-grade novel, THIS IS NOT A WEREWOLF STORY. Sandy and I met through our mutual friend, the writer Tamiko Nimura, who knew we both wrote middle-grade novels and thought we might hit it off. She was right. The first time I … Continue reading Interview with Author Sandra Evans

This month, I had the pleasure of interviewing Donna Miscolta, Filipino-Mexican-American author and essayist. I had followed Donna for a while on Twitter when I got the chance to meet her at her Dissolving or Deepening Tension with Humor workshop through the Seattle Public Library’s Seattle Writes Program. I then read her awesome collection of … Continue reading Interview with Donna Miscolta: Author & Essayist

This month, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jonathan Hill, Vietnamese-American cartoonist, illustrator, and educator. I’d been following Jonathan for a few years on Twitter when I got the chance to meet him at Short Run, Seattle’s comix and arts festival, in November 2017, and at Portland Book Festival right after. Upon meeting him, Jonathan immediately … Continue reading Interview with Jonathan Hill: Cartoonist, Illustrator, Educator