Here are your links to the SBBT interviews today. Don't forget to check out the Master Schedule for the whole week's links (and quotes)!

Kate Milford at Chasing Ray: "I love cities desperately, but I love small towns just as much. In both, even now, you can turn a corner and find something magical or something weird and alien."

Mac Barnett at Fuse Number 8: "But we wanted the mystery and clues to be organic, and to blur the lines between the book and the real world. I just love the idea that treasure could be lost in a story and found somewhere in America."

Hazardous Players at Finding Wonderland: "We love fantasy, but so many fantasies impose such earnestness into the writing that it can come across as unintentionally silly. Characters speak in extremely formal ways, “I am Turnblatt, son of Corndog, son of Poptart and I have come to avenge them!”, and writers create such complex internal mythologies with no sense of irony."

Malinda Lo at Shelf Elf: "Falling in love! I think this has to be one of the most important inspirations for pretty much any writer writing about human relationships. The good, the bad, and the ugly of it — all of it is inspiring."

Barbara Dee at Little Willow: "For her joke entries, I thought about how when I was a kid, I was convinced that my English teacher wasn't actually reading my essays. So one time I stuck the words "scrambled eggs" right in the middle of a long paragraph, just as a test. And apparently I was all wrong about this guy, because when he handed back my paper it had "SCRAMBLED EGGS? WHAT???" written in the margin. In angry red ink."

[Title quote taken from Mac Barnett's interview at Fuse Number 8!]