BTW Interviews

Jeff Zentner is the author of The Serpent King, a Winter/Spring Indies Introduce debut for young readers and a Spring Kids’ Indie Next List pick. Erin Barker from Hooray for Books! called The Serpent King “a contemporary Southern novel about loyalty, betrayal, and becoming your most honest self.”

Debut novelist Emma Cline explores the darker side of adolescence in The Girls, the number one pick of independent booksellers for the June 2016 Indie Next List.

Lindsay Eagar is the author of Hour of the Bees, a Winter/Spring Indies Introduce debut title for middle-grade readers. Drew Sieplinga of Wild Rumpus Books called Hour of the Bees “a beautifully written, magical book.”

Sara Baume is the author of the Winter/Spring Indies Introduce debut title Spill Simmer Falter Wither, which Mary Wolf of Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse called “an amazing achievement by a writer who makes her work seem effortless.”