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YAMag Editor Mordechai Laub attended the whirlwind festival in Austin last month, reporting back to us on the films he caught:

Today, Olivia from YA-Mag caught up with Lisa Burstein, author of DEAR CASSIE! They chatted about her latest work, her inspiration, and Lisa even had some exciting hints for her fans. Check it out!

Loosely based on Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Claire LaZebnik's delightful The Trouble with Flirting is a YA novel with no vampires, ghosts or nasty government agencies

Into reading novels as early as the first grade, author Anna Collomore spends part of her time as an au pair and the rest writing in Paris. Here is more on her process as well as her new book about a nanny driven to madness, The Ruining.

Replete with "car chases, explosions, shoot-outs--you name it", Megan Crewe's exciting followup to The Way We Fall, titled The Lives We Lost, is a frightening zombie-virus tale in the tradition of Carrie Ryan's The Forest Of Hands And Teeth in which the zombies are

Drawing inspiration from sources as disparate as Steinbeck and Death Cab for Cutie, author Meredith Towbin creates the world of Straightjacket, in which two teenagers lost in a bleak landscape manage to find love. Here she relates her decision to finally start writing and what it takes to keep at it.

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Former doctor and mother of 14 year-old triplets (!) Maurissa Guibord takes us to Trespass Island in her new book Revel, revealing secrets along the way about her process when beginning a story, as well as her first bold efforts at writing as a child...

In a frank discussion, actress-writer Kate Ellison opens up to us about her evocative second book Notes from Ghost Town, sharing thoughts on inter-species star-crossed lovers, her undying wanderlust and the often thorny path to successful writing.