WGP Episode 58 Nova Ren Suma, YA author

Nova Ren Suma is the author of the #1 New York Times Best Seller The Walls Around Us, now available from Algonquin, which is a finalist for the Edgar Award and named the #1 Indie Next Pick on the Spring 2015 kids’ list and a Best Book of 2015 by The Boston Globe, NPR, School Library Journal, the Chicago Public Library, The Horn Book, and Book Riot.

Nova also wrote the YA novels Imaginary Girls (Dutton, 2011) and 17 & Gone (Dutton, 2013), both named 2014 Outstanding Books for the College Bound by YALSA. Her first book, the middle-grade novel Dani Noir (S&S/Aladdin, 2009), was reissued in paperback as Fade Out (Simon Pulse, 2012) and was named a Top 10 Editors’ Pick for 2009 by Amazon. Her short story “The Birds of Azalea Street” appears in the new YA horror anthology Slasher Girls & Monster Boys (Dial, 2015) and she will have an essay in the YA anthology Feminism for the Real World, forthcoming in 2017. She is now at work on a new YA novel coming from Algonquin.

image of Nova

There is a lot more info about Nova and her books at her Amazon page also, at:

Nova Ren Suma’s Amazon page

In this episode, we learn about:

Show Notes

Insight into Nova’s name and how she came by it and what she longed to be called instead

Details about her book, The Walls Around Us, and info on her journey as a published author including her work life as a production editor or copy editor at Harper Collins

She mentions the book that set her off into the world of YA, it is called FEATHERED and you can check it out below in the image section

She tells us about working in publishing and what is important as an employee there

Insight into how an author becomes a NY Times Bestseller

Details about what it takes to break into traditional publishing

Insider info on an author’s willingness to write something new if what they are writing isn’t working.

We discuss her Edgar nomination and how that all played out

She tells us what her weakness is in writing and how she feels like she got accepted in spite of it

We learn which book is the book of her heart and why it is special to her

AND SO MUCH MORE including her best advice for aspiring authors!

Her current book:

Her previous books:

FEATHERED

You can find her online at her website NOVA REN SUMA and on Twitter @novaren
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