On Book Festivals…

As an author of young adult literature, I’m lucky. As an author who has been blessed with publishers who love and support my work, I’m EXTREMELY lucky.

This means that I frequently get to travel (at my publisher’s expense) to conferences filled with librarians and teachers and book sellers.

It means I get to take off for weeks on end for book tours that take me all over the country (and sometimes even out of the country) where I get to meet readers and gatekeepers and members of the media.

It me...