Our guest today is the very talented, very real, critically-acclaimed author Matt de la Peña! Matt has published five young adult novels—Mexican WhiteBoy, We Were Here, I Will Save You, The Living, and Ball Don’t Lie, which was made into a film that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008. Last year, Matt released … Continue reading
Our next guest is the brilliant author and master storyteller William Alexander! You, of course, know Will as the winner of the National Book Award in 2012 for his debut novel, Goblin Secrets. He also won the Earphones Award for his audio rendition of the book, which is probably no surprise to those of you who … Continue reading
I’m excited to announce that Trent Reedy is our newest guest on What Was on His . . . ! With two middle grade novels published—Words in the Dust and Stealing Air—Trent has turned his writing skills to young adult. He just released Divided We Fall, which Publishers Weekly awarded a star and declared … Continue reading
Welcome to the newest guest edition of What Was on His . . . This time with Varian Johnson! Varian is one of those rare combinations of man of science and creative soul—an engineer and bridge designer by day, and an author by night. So far, he has three novels to his name: A Red … Continue reading