Priest was there with friends and fellow authors Mario Acevedo, Mark Henry (a.k.a.
The authors talked about what spawned their various books and series, how they knew each other (and how they're part of a group called The League of Reluctant Adults), their reading and writing history, and general anecdotes. They answered my question about how they conceived their various series: often they hadn't, but if an editor thought it could support a series, they'd figure out what else they could tell! Priest referred to "TOH stories," or "Top Of Head" stories, a term she'd learned when she worked at newspapers, to describe how quickly ideas for sequels sometimes come to them.
I spoke one-on-one with
Um, I know the title "The Care and Feeding of Authors" implies I helped them get fed. I didn't. (I made sure