B&N Meet the Writers Audio Interviews

In our interview, the author of the memoir The Mistress's Daughter discusses her switch to nonfiction in order to share the very personal story of meeting her birth parents for the first time at age 31.

In our interview, the co-author of Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home explains that he thinks email is "the best medium that exists for telling people things and confirming things."

In our interview, the author of Kabul Beauty School reveals her instant connection to Afghanistan. "As soon as I set my foot on that soil, I knew I was in the right place at the right time."

The author of Rant reflects, "I think if you're going to write books, you should play to maybe the largest advantage that books still have, and that is the intimate, ongoingly consensual nature of their consumption."

When asked to classify her work in our interview, Charlaine Harris laughingly calls it "a 'kitchen sink'" of elements, "and so much fun to write."

Kim Harrison is well known for her bestselling urban fantasy series starring sexy bounty hunter Rachel Morgan. In our interview, Harrison talks about the important role music plays when setting the mood for her writing.

In our interview, the author of The Woods explains "What's key about the form of crime fiction is, I have to tell a story. It compels you to keep the pages moving. I don't get lost in the beauty of my own words, or the bliss of my own genius. I always stay on track to make you turn the pages."

The author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret reveals how his early experience selling books and decorating windows at Eeyore's Books for Children was the perfect training ground for learning how to create books that truly capture a kid's imagination.

The author of The Fifth Vial talks about what he thinks draws readers to his brand of fiction. "[My] readers like to feel that they're inside of a world that they don't ordinarily have exposure to."

The author of The Gospel of Judas and Reading Judas talks about her path toward the understanding of religion, and her professional and personal reasons for following it.

The author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and Burning Bright talks about why she selects a special notebook to hold her ideas for each new novel.

Food Network personality and cookbook author Giada De Laurentiis talks about why she feels her recipes resonate with so many.

The former editor of Spy magazine and author of Heyday talks about why he now enjoys writing novels over journalism, as well as his obsession with the year 1848.

The author of Motherless Brooklyn and the new You Don't Love Me Yet talks about how his background in visual arts shapes his writing, and why he doesn't worry about running out of ideas.

Creator of the witty Shopaholic series, Sophie Kinsella talks about her previous occupation as financial writer, and how she decided to become a novelist.