Writer.
Bookworm.
Cookie Connoisseur.
Caroline Tung Richmond is an award-winning young adult author whose novels include The Great Destroyers, The Only Thing to Fear, Live In Infamy, and The Darkest Hour. She is also the co-editor of the Hungry Hearts anthology and the co-author of Great or Nothing, a retelling of Little Women set during WWII.
The Unofficial Bio
Caroline Tung Richmond penned her first story in the second grade—handwritten and on wide-ruled paper. She kept writing fiction throughout high school and college, but worried that a career in writing wouldn’t be practical so she decided to major in history instead, which wasn’t very practical either, but she did learn a lot about ancient Chinese dynasties.
But the siren call of writing a book never went away. Caroline started seriously pursuing publication after college and, after a lot of rejection letters, her first novel The Only Thing to Fear sold to Scholastic in 2013. She is now the author of six books as well as the co-editor of the Hungry Hearts anthology and the co-author of Great or Nothing, a Little Women retelling set during WWII.
In her free time … haha, what is ‘free time’? Caroline has a day job and two young kids! When she gets a minute to herself, she writes and sleeps and makes grilled cheese sandwiches.
Caroline lives in Maryland with her family.
FAQs
Where do you get your ideas?
Lots of places! TV shows, other books, museum exhibits. I once got an idea for a novel when I brought my kids to one of those chaotic indoor playgrounds, AKA The Hunger Games, Junior Edition. I’m still working on that one.
What inspired The Only Thing to Fear?
A few factors:
I'm a big history nerd
I love asking 'what if' questions
I adore X-Men
And that’s how I got the idea for a book!
Will there be a sequel to The Only Thing to Fear?
Yes, kind of! Let me explain: there is a companion novel to The Only Thing to Fear called Live In Infamy and both books take place in the same world. Live In Infamy features a bunch of new characters who live in the Western American Territories and who are fighting the Empire of the Rising Sun.
Will Zara or Bastian or Uncle Red be featured in Live In Infamy?
You should take a peek in the book. :)
Will there be a sequel to The Only Thing to Fear and Live In Infamy?
There isn’t another book in the pipeline right now, but I do have an idea in mind that would focus on Bastian and conclude the whole storyline.
When is your birthday?
December 10th. I’m not telling you the year!
More Info
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