Friday Fifteen: Mariah Fredericks
It’s the Friday Fifteen! Today’s guest is author Mariah Fredericks.
Mariah is the author of Head Games, now in stores.
1. Where are you now?
In my dining room in Jackson Heights, Queens.
2. What were your favorite books as a kid?
At various ages, Richard Scarry’s What Do People Do All Day? Harriet the Spy, and The Chocolate War
3. What are you reading now?
A biography of Elizabeth I.
4. Do you have kids?
Yep, one big, gorgeous boy, six months old.
5. What projects are you working on now?
The final book in my tarot trilogy, called In the Cards: Life. Also a book about school politics and what happens when we lose faith in the value of tolerance.
6. What is your biggest writing or illustrating luxury?
A room of my own.
7. Coffee or tea?
Both.
8. Name five artists on your iPod (or mp3 player).
Green Day, Patti Scialfa, Billy Bragg, Pearl Jam and Stephen Sondheim.
9. What would I be surprised to know about you?
That there’s not much surprising about me.
10. What college did you attend (in what subject)?
Vassar College, history.
11. If you weren’t working with kids’ books, what would your dream job be?
Historical novelist or basset hound breeder.
12. What’s the best thing on TV right now?
The Wire
13. How did you get your “big break” into the field?
I wrote four adult novels that went nowhere. Then I decided nothing is more dramatic than what happens to us in ninth grade and wrote The True Meaning of Cleavage. A friend of mine suggested I send it to Dick Jackson. I did and about a month later, I had a message on my answering machine, “Hello, this is Dick Jackson…”
14. Which celeb would you want most to meet?
Peter O’Toole, for the stories.
15. Who is the best book character EVER?
Gotta go with Harriet the Spy.
Be sure and check out Mariah’s latest projects at her web site.
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