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 March, below.

Scott Westerfeld
Scott Westerfeld doesn‘t just write fanciful young adult fiction; he goes out of his way to do his research and use science to give his fiction a little credence. Whether its writing about a world of the future where everyone is surgically altered to be beautiful, or a modern day New York where vampirism is caused by a parasite, he knows how to make you wonder if his words are possible. His novels make you think...
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen‘s books mark the beginning of what we now call “chick lit.“ She was the original female author who wrote novels that appealed specifically to women, but novels that were not of the trashy romance variety. The era in which Austen wrote saw a rise in the number of female authors, but she is especially well remembered because it is her novels that serve as the model for a lot of the modern chick lit, not to mention chick flicks, we have today...
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