If you missed them the first time around you can catch up on the various authors featured in our weekly updated WRiter Spotlight Column in January, below.

Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen has a knack for young adult fiction. Her novels are aimed mainly at young women, and her stories, while all very different from one another, are also universal in their core ideas. All of them take place during that pivotal time in a young woman’s life when everything changes: the summer before college, when a parent dies, during a first serious relationship, when they find their first real friend, or sometimes a combination of all of these things...
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LM Montgomery
Although her books are most often classified amongst “juvenile“ literature, there is nothing juvenile about them, except for maybe the pervading spirit that urges the people who read them to stop observing life and start living it to the full extent of their imagination. The author gives us stories of family, of love, of loss, all themes that exist in contemporary literature as well. Her setting just happens to be the end of the 19th century. Montgomery set the majority of her stories in the same universe; she was one of those authors who lived by the principle of writing what she knew, so the world of Prince Edward Island, a small community in Canada became famous, due largely to an orphan girl named Anne Shirley.
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Robin Palmer
Robin Palmer started off her writing career in Hollywood. She worked for a couple different talent agencies, worked as a television executive for the Lifetime Network, and even wrote a few screen plays. She left the glitz and glamour of the Los Angeles way behind so she could pursue a writing career full time, and one that belonged completely to her. She now is an executive at MTV and has made a successful career out of retooling classic fairy tales in novel form. She makes her stories original and up to date for the modern reader, while still giving a nod and a wink to the original source material, and she does a great job. She takes the world she worked in, LA, and uses it as her fairy tale kingdom. Instead of balls and princes there are school dances and popular high school boys. The social dynamics aren’t the royalty and the peasants, but the cheerleaders and the geeks. So far, Robin‘s done her own versions of Cinderella, Little Red Rising Hood and The Frog Prince...
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