Authors Interview: Meredith Davis & Mari Mancusi on Book Series & Promotion

By Gayleen Rabakukk

I’m very excited to welcome two Austin authors who have both written middle grade books with a series second releasing this year. Meredith Davis is the author of The Minor Rescue (Waterbrook, May 2025), and Mari Mancusi wrote Dawn of the Dragons (Little Brown, Sept. 2, 2025), a prequel to New Dragon City (Little Brown, 2022), which made the Texas Bluebonnet and Florida Sunshine lists. They’re both authors who love creating stories for middle grade readers, and they generousl...