For a while in the late 2000s/early 2010s, after I’d been blogging for a while, I decided it’d be fun to interview the authors of some of the books I loved. Scrolling through, It’s an eclectic bunch of authors – some of which I know I initiate, and some of which I’m sure the author initiated. I remember being super nervous to reach out to Clare Vanderpool to do the interview (though now she comes into the store pretty regularly, and it’s just “Hey Clare!” It’s funny how that happens). I know I did interviews for other places, like Estella’s Revenge (I interviewed my boss before she became my boss. In fact, that was one of the things she mentioned when she interviewed me to be a bookseller.) and the Cybils.

It was something I genuinely enjoyed doing, but time and circumstances just don’t allow me to anymore. (And maybe because the nature of blogging has changed.) I do think authors are interesting people, and I enjoy talking to/spending time with them (I had a whole hashtag on Instagram – #authorsarecool – for when I got to take authors around for visits/in-store events when I was the Children’s Coordinator (it’s been a while since I used the hashtag, and you have to scroll down to find my posts).

At any rate, it’s been fun to go back and read through the interviews I did when I was a younger blogger. And it’s an experience I wouldn’t have had without the blog, so I’m grateful for that.