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Kylie Howarth is an award-winning, internationally published children’s book author-illustrator from Western Australia. She recently won the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award - Writer’s Fellowship, the WAYRBA Hoffman award and KOALA Honour award. She has been shortlisted for the SCBWI Australian Picture Book Illustrators Award, CBCA Book of the year awards, WAYRBA and the YABBA awards. Her hilarious new graphic novel series for early readers is out now. In the 137th episode of The HYBRID Author podcast host Joanne Morrell, author of young adult fiction, women's fiction and short non-fiction for authors, chats to Kylie about: her latest graphic novel for kids ‘Kev and Trev’ tips for authors and illustrators looking to adapt work into graphic novel format what winning the ‘Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards Writer’s Fellowship’ means for Kylie's work and much more. https://www.kyliehowarth.com/books

Since her untimely death in 2006 the Science Fiction world has come to realize that Octavia Butler is one of its most important voices.  This year for the first time her 1995 classic made the bestseller list because the 25-year-old book sadly casts a light on our modern world far too well. In this episode, I interviewed an artist and writing duo Damian Duffy and John Jennings.  They carrying the flag for Butler in one of the most exciting ways possible. Starting with Butler's classic novel about the horrors of Slavery Kindred. The book went on to win the 2017 Bram Stoker award for the best graphic novel. This year they followed that release with an adaptation of Butler's most popular book The Parable of the Sower. This interview is a fun look at the process beyond the creation of the books, the choices the team made adapting the novel, and of course the importance of Octavia Butler. John Jennings is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside. Damian Duffy Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches courses on computers & culture, and social media & global change. •You can find my books here: https://bookshop.org/contributors/david-agranoff •   You can find my books here:  Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW •And me here:  Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agranoff Twitter-https://twitter.com/DAgranoffAuthor Blog-http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/