Sylvia McNicoll

You never know how you're going to engage your young person with books. I love series reading because the entry point into the story becomes a safe home you've already visited. That is for the second, third and fourth book. How do we hook a new reader enough to...

Making a shortlist and/or winning an award can make a difference in the life of your novel but it's not anything you have control over. I always tell everyone that I work just as hard on books that somehow don't hit a note with critics or readers as I do on ones that...

At talks I gave in Seoul and Bogotá on a standalone novel called Revenge on the Fly, the same question arose: "What do I think of series?" It was clear that the answer was supposed to be that they were a lesser form of literature that you shouldn't encourage or even...