Liana Gardner: Writing in the face of Adversity

Liana Gardner has a passion for writing – she started when she was just nine-years-old! She also has a passion for good books.

Liana Gardner has a passion for writing – she started when she was just nine-years-old! She also has a passion for good books. It was her frustration with the books her younger sister was reading that led her to write her award-winning novels Misfit McCabe and Nowhere Feels Like Home. And then in 2013, she received some life-changing news: she had leukemia. Yet while most would see that as a sign of the end, it became another source for Liana’s passion to write. In this episode of About the Author, Liana shares how she’s taken a challenging life obstacle and turned it into a message of passion and devotion. It’s an inspiring story that everyone’s going to want to hear. Read Liana's book, 7th Grade Revolution (http://lianagardner.com/middle-grade/7th-grade-revolution/) Follow Liana @lkgg (https://twitter.com/lkgg) Follow Saul @SAULMARQ (https://twitter.com/saulmarq)

There’s a brief paragraph at the end of the book you just read – and chances are the story behind it is just as interesting and inspiring as the story that preceded it.

Join Bookstacked writer Saul Marquez as he sits down with Children’s and Young Adult book authors to learn how they discovered writing, broke into publishing, and achieved everything else that happened in between and after.