Authors on the Verge: Meet Emily Ecton, middle-grade novelist

This week, we have Emily Ecton, middle-grade novelist and writer and producer for Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, the NPR news quiz. She has also been a playwright, a chinchilla wrangler, an ice cream scooper and a costume character. While Emily doesn’t have a groovy rabbit like Snoop, she does live in Chicago with her dog, Binky. And we here at Writing for Children and Teens love Chicago and all of our furry friends.

See me at Chicago’s Printers Row Book Fair

Come to one of the most celebrated book fairs in the country–I’ll be working the SCBWI booth at the Printers Row Book Fair, happy to answer your questions about writing for children and teens and signing my book, WRITING FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS: A CRASH COURSE. See you there!

How to get there:

The book fair is located on historic Printers Row, in the blocks surrounding Dearborn and Polk street.