Welcome to Barren Island Books, the author interview series that’s in no way related to a popular music-based radio programme. You know the rules by now: my guests are exiled to a remote island with only five books for company, selected from the categories I give them. It’s up to them to make sure they choose wisely, because they’re going to be stuck with those books for a long, long time …

My interviewee this week is Christi J. Whitney, author of young adult fantasy novel Grey (the first book in the Romany Outcasts series) – out today from Harper Voyager! When she's not being banished to a desert island, Christi can be found at christijwhitney.com.

Welcome to Barren Island Books, the author interview series that’s in no way related to a popular music-based radio programme. You know the rules by now: my guests are exiled to a remote island with only five books for company, selected from the categories I give them. It’s up to them to make sure they choose wisely, because they’re going to be stuck with those books for a long, long time …

My interviewee this week is Beth Cato, author of the Clockwork Dagger series. She's currently celebrating the release of her prequel story, The Deepest Poison – out on Tuesday! When she's not being banished to a desert island, Beth can be found at www.bethcato.com.

Welcome to Barren Island Books, the author interview series that’s in no way related to a popular music-based radio programme. You know the rules by now: my guests are exiled to a remote island with only five books for company, selected from the categories I give them. It’s up to them to make sure they choose wisely, because they’re going to be stuck with those books for a long, long time …

My interviewee this week is Ingrid Seymour, author of young adult sci-fi novel Ignite the Shadows – out today from Harper Voyager! When she's not being banished to a desert island, Ingrid can be found at ingridseymour.com  and fictionbound.com. She is giving away a gift card and an e-copy of Ignite the Shadows to one lucky participant, so stay tuned for the giveaway at the end of the interview.

Today I welcome fellow fantasy author Kay Kauffman to the blog. As well as writing fantasy, she’s also the author of two books of poetry – Tuesday Daydreams and A Song for All Seasons – and she’s here to tell us why poetry and fantasy have more in common than you might think …

A short one this week, and mainly to say that I'm not going to be able to post much in the way of blog content over the next couple of months. This is partly because it's now less than three months until Darkhaven's release (!) and so I'm busy with editing, writing guest posts, answering interview questions, etcetera. And also partly because if I have any wonderful ideas for new blog posts, I'm going to have to keep them for the blog tour or I'll run out of stuff to talk about. However, the upcoming weeks are full of people clamouring to be exiled to the Barren Islands – sometimes two a week – so it's not as if I'm turning the lights out or anything.