http://scribblersontheedge.com by members of Scribblerati.com Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:44:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/04/an-interview-with-debut-ya-author-keren-david/ http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/04/an-interview-with-debut-ya-author-keren-david/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:19:10 +0000 Nicky Schmidt http://scribblersontheedge.com/?p=729

In her novel, When I Was Joe, debut YA author, Keren David, emerges as a powerful new voice in young adult literature.  When I Was Joe is a gripping, vivid and intense thriller told with dramatic pacing. It is a novel which will leave the reader breathless – and more importantly, it’s a novel that  leaves the reader thinking long after the book has been finished. When I Was Joe, tells the story of 14 year old Ty, a London [...]]]> http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/04/an-interview-with-debut-ya-author-keren-david/feed/ 1 http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/02/interview-with-ya-author-gillian-philip/ http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/02/interview-with-ya-author-gillian-philip/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:09:34 +0000 Nicky Schmidt http://scribblersontheedge.com/?p=601

Sometimes in life you just get lucky.  I feel that way about having made friends on Facebook with Scottish author Gillian Philip.  When I friended her (or she friended me – I forget which way round it was), I didn’t know anything about her, let alone what she’d written.  But as is the way of these things, you get to know someone a little and you decide to read their books.  Reading Gillian’s books  has been a total treat for [...]]]> http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/02/interview-with-ya-author-gillian-philip/feed/ 2 http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/01/the-joy-of-leaping-off-the-edge/ http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/01/the-joy-of-leaping-off-the-edge/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:18:20 +0000 Richard D. Nielsen http://scribblersontheedge.com/?p=557

Writing anything, a short story, blog, magazine article, book, is so cerebral. You watch the words appear on the screen in your own private little world. But to have something appear in tangable print, something tactile that has weight, scent  (I love the aroma of new books), can be held, stimulates all the senses. To see your name on the cover of your creation is like being handed a newborn which, for us guys, has been mostly hidden inside our [...]]]> http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/01/the-joy-of-leaping-off-the-edge/feed/ 4 http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/01/the-lightning-thief-by-rick-riordan-book-review-2/ http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/01/the-lightning-thief-by-rick-riordan-book-review-2/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:57:39 +0000 Elizabeth Varadan http://scribblersontheedge.com/?p=470

Gods and goddesses of ancient Greece have long been discounted as myth, right? In the fast-paced fantasy, The Lightning Thief, these “immortals” still live. Their half-mortal offspring walk among us, pursued by monsters. Percy Jackson is in trouble again at his new boarding school. He’s dyslexic and he suffers from ADHD, and he assumes that’s why he has the kinds of mess-ups that get him regularly expelled from schools. What Percy doesn’t realize is that he is one of the [...]]]> http://scribblersontheedge.com/2010/01/the-lightning-thief-by-rick-riordan-book-review-2/feed/ 2 http://scribblersontheedge.com/2009/12/interview-nicky-schmidt-talks-to-ya-author-kevin-brooks/ http://scribblersontheedge.com/2009/12/interview-nicky-schmidt-talks-to-ya-author-kevin-brooks/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:42:00 +0000 Nicky Schmidt http://scribblersontheedge.com/2009/12/interview-nicky-schmidt-talks-to-ya-author-kevin-brooks/

A few months ago I had the pleasure of meeting one of my favourite authors, British writer, Kevin Brooks, at a local book expo and he agreed to do an interview with me on his latest novel, Killing God. The back cover blurb of Killing God reads as follows: Dawn Bundy is fifteen. She doesn’t fit in and she couldn’t care less. Dawn has other things on her mind. Her dad disappeared two years ago and it’s all God’s fault. [...]]]> http://scribblersontheedge.com/2009/12/interview-nicky-schmidt-talks-to-ya-author-kevin-brooks/feed/ 0 http://scribblersontheedge.com/2009/11/interview-shelley-souza-talks-to-author-arthur-slade/ http://scribblersontheedge.com/2009/11/interview-shelley-souza-talks-to-author-arthur-slade/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:10:00 +0000 Shelley http://scribblersontheedge.com/2009/11/interview-shelley-souza-talks-to-author-arthur-slade/

Shelley: A recent interview said that The Hunchback Assignments is inspired by Victor Hugo’s Huchbank of Notre Dame, and that the second book in this seven-part series found inspiration from Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Was that your aim, to reinterpret classics that fit with the growing movement of steampunk in fashion, literature and art? Arthur Slade: Originally, my intention was to take elements from these classics and use them as  leaping points for a new set of stories. I didn’t set [...]]]> http://scribblersontheedge.com/2009/11/interview-shelley-souza-talks-to-author-arthur-slade/feed/ 0