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Are you looking to have your children’s book highlighted or reviewed? Fantastic! See my Book Review Requests page for submission guidelines and how to submit your book, already done that? Check out the Author Interview Questions below.
I love to do books with Author Interviews, this gives me a great chance to highlight not only traditionally published authors, but also indie authors and self published authors, and for you to tell us why your book is amazing. (It also really helps me for getting people from my other social media channels interested in your book!)
If I post about your book I’ll want to do it with an Author interview. Please see the questions below and pick 5-10 that you’d like to answer (or feel free to come up with your own questions – the ones you wished people would ask you – and include both the question and the answer with your book submission material)
Author Interview Question Ideas:
- What inspired you to write this particular book?
- What messages or themes do you hope readers take away from your book?
- What was your favorite part about creating the illustrations for this book?
- Which character in your book do you relate to the most and why?
- What was the most challenging aspect of writing this book?
- What do you hope readers will feel when they read your book?
- How did you come up with the idea for the illustrations in your book?
- What advice would you give to young aspiring writers and illustrators?
- How would you describe your writing and illustrating style?
- What was your favorite book growing up and how did it influence your own writing and illustrating?
- Which scene in your book was your favorite to write and why?
- What was your biggest challenge in getting your book published?
- How did you choose the setting for your book?
- What was your sources of inspiration for the characters in your book?
- Is there a part of your book that you wish you had a chance to expand on more?
Silly Personal Questions About the Author:
- If you were stranded on a deserted island and could only bring three items, what would they be?
- If you could switch lives with any fictional character, who would it be and why?
- What is your favorite type of weather and why?
- If you could be any animal, what would you be and why?
- If you could time travel to any era, where and when would you go and why?
- If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why?
- If you were a pizza topping, what would you be and why?
- What’s the most unusual thing you’ve ever eaten?
- If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?
- What song would you sing at karaoke and why?
- If you could only wear one color for the rest of your life, what color would it be and why?
- What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done for love?
- If you were president for a day, what would you do?
- If you were a character in a comedy movie, what role would you play?
- If you could have any profession for a day, what would it be and why?
