YA Lit Chat Made of Awesome Author Spotlight:
April 13th and 14th at 9pm EST are going to be chalk full of YA authors, prizes and general pandaemonium as only the YA YA YA’s can induce. Your three blogging partners Mundie Moms, Novel Novice and myself will be spotlighting six authors each for six days so you can really get to know the awesome folk you will be chatting with.
From Sarwat’s Bio
March 2004- Mid-life crisis HITS. What am I doing? I am an ARTIST! There must be more to life than designing ductwork systems! Sign up onto a screenwriting course…
October 2004- Pitch my story to a panel of experts. One suggests it may be suitable for Bette Midler. He does not mean this as a compliment. Despair follows…
October 2004- Friend tells me to try my hand at a straight story. I bash out Templar Chapter 1. The Premise is awesome. Nobody would think to write about a teenage ‘kick-ass’ heroine fighting the supernatural, or mix in the utterly obscure Knights Templar…
I discover Buffy … despair follows.
November 2004- I discover Buffy. Despair follows… January 2005- I write and write and write…
March 2005- I discover The Da Vinci Code. Despair follows…
November 2005- TEMPLAR is finished (all 100,000 words of it)! Spend a lot of time lurking by the office photocopier after work (and they thought I was doing overtime…sorry!) and pack it off to my top ten carefully selected agents… The NEXT DAY (I kid you not) the rejections start to arrive…
What Bookalicious has to say:
It’s not very often that I put an author up to rockstar status. There are only a few on that list of mine. Sarwat Chadda being the only one I have ever met. I am in awe of the world he created, and the fact that while writing that effed up stuff for us to read that he is still sane :P Sarwat is a fascinating bloke and an equally fascinating writer. I was so sad to learn the news that there will be no third Billi book. I know that all of the fans are still mourning as Billi’s story wasn’t finished. She means so much to those of us who love her. We need more feminist characters for our young girls and another one got the axe.
I was lucky enough to video interview Sarwat. See what he has to say about Billi and his writing!
Visit Sarwat at his website, his blog, and and Twitter!
Bloggers love Sarwat!
YA Bibliophile reviews Dark Goddess.
Fire and Ice reviews Dark Goddess.
Debbie’s World of Books reviews Devil’s Kiss
Reading Teen reviews Devil’s Kiss.
