Author and Illustrator Blogs
Blogging writers and illustrators of children’s and young adult books are listed by name, and the blogs may include personal stories, writing processes, public appearances, and book information.
- Anna Alter (Painting Bunnies)
- Max Elliot Anderson (Books for Boys)
- Jeannine Atkins (Views from a Window Seat)
- Roberta Baird (A Mouse in the House)
- Nandini Bajpai (Notes from New England)
- Cyn Balog (The B-log Blog)
- Chris Barton (Bartography)
- Alice Bauer (I’m working on it)
- Barbara Bietz
- Holly Black
- Robyn Hood Black
- Molly Blaisdell (Seize the Day)
- Judy Blume (Judy’s Blog)
- Vijaya Bodach (Reading, Writing, Ruminating)
- Gwenda Bond (Shaken & Stirred)
- James Bow
- Julie Bowe
- Steph Bowe (Hey! Teenager)
- Robin Brande
- Steve Brezenoff (Exile in Goyville)
- Erik Brooks (E is for Erik)
- Susan Taylor Brown (Susan Writes)
- Kym Brunner (Kym’s Quips)
- Elizabeth Bunce (Mirth & Matter)
- Jessica Burkhart
- Loree Griffin Burns
- Jane Buttery
- Meg Cabot (Meg’s Diary)
- Lori Calabrese
- Robyn Campbell
(Putting Pen to Paper) - Sarah C. Campbell
- Ally Carter
- Cecil Castellucci (The Divine Miss Pixie Woods)
- Crissa Chappell (total constant order)
- Christopher Cheng (It’s all about the books)
- Annie Choi (Annietown)
- Samantha Clark (Day by Day Writer)
- Sherryl Clark (Books and Writing)
- Debbie Clement
- Jill Corcoran
- Tina Nichols Coury (Tales from the Rushmore Kid)
- Shutta Crum
- Angela Pena Dahle (A Pen in Neverland)
- Jim Danielson (Haunts of a Children’s Writer)
- Katie Davis (Brain Burps)
- Tanita Davis
- Lori Degman (Habitual Rhymer)
- Stacy DeKeyser (Reading, Writing, and Chocolate)
- Sarah Dessen
- Jim Di Bartolo (Jimbo Jabber)
- Debbie Diesen (Jumping the Candlestick)
- Sarah Dillard (My Little Place in the Woods)
- Kathleen Duey (writerwriterwriter)
- Elizabeth O. Dulemba
- Sarah Beth Durst
- Barbara Ehentreu
- Najoud Ensaff (Jude’s Writing Corner)
- Brenda Ferber (Fresh Baked Bits)
- Tina Ferraro (YA Fresh)
- Kelly Fineman (Writing and Ruminating)
- Pauline Fisk
- Lizann Flatt (Flatt Perspective)
- Douglas Florian (Florian Cafe)
- Christina Forshay (LoveBiscuits)
- Janet Fox (Through the Wardrobe)
- Megan Francis (On Beyond Words and Pictures)
- Deborah Freedman (Writes with Pictures)
- Neil Gaiman
- Debra Garfinkle
- Terie Garrison
- Jeannine Garsee (Elusive Sanity)
- Gail Gauthier (Original Content)
- Alissa Imre Geis (Red Clogs Studio)
- Margie Gelbwasser
- Rebecca Gomez
- John Green
- Melanie Hope Greenberg (Mermaids on Parade)
- Kimberly Griffiths (Kimberley’s Wanderings)
- Lorie Ann Grover (Space Station Nathan)
- Nathan Hale (On Point)
- Kelly Milner Halls (Wonders of Weird)
- Jenny Han
- Mindy Hardwick
- Leanne Hardy
- Brent Hartinger (Voices In My Head)
- Jeanne Walker Harvey (True Tales and a Cherry on Top)
- Naheed Hasnat (Book-a-Brac)
- Andrea Hazard
- Lynn E. Hazen (The Imaginary Blog)
- Justina Chen Headley (Wordlings)
- Bethany Hegedus (And Then)
- Christine Henderson
- Claire Henessy
- Karyn Henley
- April Henry (So many books, so little time)
- Cheryl Renee Herbsman
- Dayna Hilton
- Jannie Ho (Chickengirl Design)
- Kristi Holl (Writer’s First Aid)
- Matthew Holm
- Sara Lewis Holmes (Read Write Believe)
- P.J. Hoover
- Joyce Moyer Hostetter
- Jennifer Hubbard
- Sandra McLeod Humphrey (Dare to Dream Big)
- Cynthia Iannaccone (My Story, My Art)
- Ryan Jacobs (Author vs. Monster)
- A.M. Jenkin
- Maureen Johnson
- Sarah Blake Johnson
- Varian Johnson
- Carrie Jones
- Liz Jones
- Kim Kasch
- Amanda Kavanagh
- Verla Kay
- Paige Keiser (Fox in Socks)
- J. Aday Kennedy (A Writing Playground)
- Jo Knowles
- Michelle Knudsen
- Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff
- Donna Koppelman (ChitChat)
- Gayle C. Krause (The Storyteller’s Scroll)
- Uma Krishnaswami (Writing with a Broken Tusk)
- Jarett Krosoczka
- Margo Lanagan (Among Amid While)
- Leo Landry (Leoland)
- Justine Larbalestier
- Julie Larios (The Drift Record)
- Kirby Larson (Kirby’s Lane)
- Dianne de Las Casas (The Story Connection Blog)
- Irene Latham (Live. Love. Explore!)
- Tara Lazar (Writing for Children While Raising Them)
- Lindsey Leavitt (I blog, therefore I am)
- Christy Lenzi (Positively Everything)
- Julius Lester (A Commonplace Book)
- Anna M. Lewis (Got Art)
- Sara Darer Littman (It’s My Life and I’ll Blog if I Want To!)
- Cynthea Liu (It’s a Spin Thing)
- E. Lockhart
- Amanda Lorenzo
- Anita Loughrey
- Lois Lowry
- David Lubar (Gadfly in the Ointment)
- Deb Lund
- April Lurie (April Afloat)
- Cynthia Lord
- Shari Lyle-Soffe
- Dandi Daley Mackall
- Stephen Macquignon
- Kerry Madden (Knoxville Girl)
- L.K. Madigan (Drenched in Words)
- Diandra Mae (Taking Flight)
- Christine Marciniak (Simple and the Ordinary
- Michelle Markel (The Cat and the Fiddle)
- Melissa Marr
- Deb Marshall (Breathings)
- Robert McCarty (Barking Planet)
- Mac McCool
- Donna McDine
- Sheryl McFarlane
- Kate Messner (Kate’s Book Blog)
- Debbi Michiko (One Writer’s Journey)
- Lisa J. Michaels (Whimsical Scribbles )
- Sarah Miller (Reading, Writing, Musing)
- Kathy Mirkin (The Write Words)
- Susan Mitchell (It’s a Whimsical Life)
- Heidi Mordhorst (My Juicy Little Universe)
- Amy Cullings Moreno (Cachibachis)
- Jackie Morris
- Lisa Mullarkey
- Elise Murphy
- Sally Murphy
- Terri Murphy (Mermaid Waves)
- Elena Nazzaro (French Toast Girl)
- Juana Martinez Neal
- Barbara Johansen Newman (Cats and Jammers Studio)
- Jeff Newman
- John Nez
- Mary Nida (Life’s Beautiful Path)
- Ginger Nielson
- Marc Tyler Nobleman
- Kim Norman (Stone Stoop)
- Stacy Nyikos (Out There)
- Barbara O’Connor (Greetings from Nowhere)
- Wendie Old (Wendie’s Wanderings)
- Julie Olson
- Tabitha Olson (Writer Musings)
- Cynthia Jaynes Omololu (CynJay)
- Anne Osterlund
- L.L. Owens
- Anna Marie Pace
- Robin Palmer (Keep Your Glass Slipper)
- Linda Sue Park (What I’m Reading)
- Kelly Parra (YA Fresh)
- Keely Parrack (fragments)
- Karen Pasquarette
- Mary E. Pearson
- Marlene Perez
- Mitali Perkins (Mitali’s Fire Escape)
- Erica Perl (Chicken Feed)
- Paurla Pertile (Drawing a Fine Line)
- Susan Beth Pfeffer (Meteors, Moons, and Me)
- Matt Phelan (Planet Ham)
- Terry Pierce
- Gregory K. Pincus (GottaBook)
- Gae Polisner (That Wee Bit Heap)
- Heather Powers (Humblearts Journal)
- James Preller
- Julie M. Prince (Off to Turn Another Page)
- Cheryl Rainfield
- Janette Rallison
- Candice Ransom (Ellsworth’s Journal)
- Jama Rattigan (Alphabet Soup)
- Sarah Raymond
- Cynthia Reeg
- Kristopher Reisz
- Jean Reidy (A Totally Random Romp)
- Richard Rene (Mysterion)
- Chris Rettstatt
- Adam Rex
- Sam Riddleburger
- Rick Riordan (Myth & Mystery)
- Gina Rorby
- Caroline Starr Rose
- Madelyn Rosenberg (The Furnace)
- Cylin Busby Ross (cbr’s journal)
- Eli Ross
- Pamela Ross (Tramps Like Us…)
- Amie Rose Rotruck (Revise, Rewrite, Review, Reword… )
- Stephanie Ruble
- Jennifer Rumberger
- Rebecca Russell
- Sergio Ruzzier (Hey, Rabbit!)
- Candace Ryan Book, Booker, Bookest
- Sara Ryan
- Katia Novet Saint-Lot (Scribbly Katia)
- Laura Salas
- Barney Saltzberg
- Diane Sammet
- Nancy Sanders (Blogzone)
- Tammi Sauer
- April Pulley Sayre (Blog Blab)
- Liz Scanlon (Liz In Ink)
- Paul Schmid
- Erin L. Schneider
- Nicole Marie Schreiber (The Quill and Crayon)
- Lisa Schroeder (Lisa’s Little Corner)
- Corey Schwartz (Thing 1 and Thing 2)
- Donny Bailey Seagraves
- Andrea Seigel (This Afternoon in Drama)
- Adam Selzer
- George Shannon
- Nikki Shoemaker (What Comes from Nikki’s Pencil)
- Barbara Shoup
- Alan Silberberg (Adventures in Pond Scum)
- Janni Lee Simner (Desert Dispatches)
- Linda Joy Singleton (Strange Author Encounters)
- Alan Lawrence Sitomer
- Arthur Slade (Writing for Young Adults)
- Fran Cannon Slayton
- Cynthia Leitich Smith (spookycyn)
- Greg L. Smith
- Lori Joy Smith
- Sherwood Smith (Oached Pish)
- Laurel Snyder
- Toby Speed (The Writer’s Armchair)
- Donna St. Cyr
- Jolie Stekly (Cuppa Jolie)
- Catherine Stine
- Tanya Lee Stone
- Ronica Stromberg
- Jane Sutcliffe (Whozits, a Kids’ Biography Blog)
- Nicole Tadgell (Studio NT)
- Rebecca Talley
- Don Tate (Devas T. Rants and Raves)
- Matt Tavares
- Laini Taylor (Grow Wings)
- Jaime Temairik (Cocoa Stomp)
- Elliah Terry (Funny Poetry Girl)
- Jennifer Thermes (Art, Words, Life)
- Peggy Thomas
- Laurie Thompson
- Michele M. Thornton
- Debbie Tilley
- Jo Treggiari (Feltus Ovalton)
- Pamela S. Turner
- Susan Uhlig (So Many Good Books, So Little Time, So Keep Reading)
- Linda Urban (Crooked Perfect)
- Susan Vanhecke
- Shawn Wallace (Doodle Thoughts)
- Hilary Wagner
- Gabrielle Wang (A Passing Whisper)
- Sasha Watson
- Elizabeth E. Wein
- Mindy Alyse Weiss
- Monica Wellington
- Scott Westerfeld (westerblog)
- Sue Whiting
- Jo Whittemore (Jo’s Journal)
- Tamra Wight (Random Writing)
- Deborah Wiles (One Pomegranate)
- Melissa Wiley (Here in the Bonny Glen)
- Mo Willems
- Suzanne Williams
- Christina Wilsdon
- Karma Wilson (Good Karma)
- Kim Winters (Kat’s Eye)
- Maggie L. Wood
- Lisa Yee
- Jane Yolen (Telling the True)
- Jennifer Lee Young (Castles in the Sky)
- Suzanne Young
- Sara Zarr
- Lara M. Zeises (girl uninterrupted)
- Tracie Zimmer
- Andrea Zimmerman (Picture Book Party)