“A sibling represents a person’s past, present, and future.” –John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back To simply describe John Corey Whaley’s debut novel as an original, contemporary coming-of-age story about growing up in a small town would not even begin to cover things. It is a heartbreaking read and a hopeful read at the […]
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This year marked the second annual YALLWEST Book Festival. YALLWEST is a gigantic festival of books that took place in sunny Santa Monica, April 29th—May 1st. It was last year at YALLWEST where I met author/Germ Founder Jennifer Niven for the first time, and we talked about how much I loved reading Germ Magazine. She encouraged me […]
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Guest post #1: How was writing this book similar, different, more challenging, or less challenging than your previous books? Do you have a specific writing process or schedule, or do you write when the mood strikes? Every book feels completely different for me. And I think that’s true because I try to approach every new […]
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On April 30th at the YALLWEST book festival in Santa Monica, California, I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with John Corey Whaley — author of the contemporary young adult novel Where Things Come Back (winner of the 2012 Printz and Morris awards) and the sci-fi/contemporary young adult novel Noggin. His newest novel, Highly Illogical Behavior, is […]
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