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Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes , sign up here. Liesa Abrams: When I was first thinking about what to call the imprint, I was looking for a name that addressed the fact that the list would be middle-grade and YA fiction; some would be realistic, some would be fantasy.

The connecting thread is the idea that books exist as a way to safely escape and also feel seen. When I was a kid, books did both of those things. I had a really traumatic childhood, so I wanted stories that took me completely out of my life and my head, and I also wanted to feel less alone. LA: I was a big fantasy reader. A lot of what you would imagine — Narnia , Lloyd Alexander , Lord of the Rings — big epic fantasy stories.

Also, Batman comics. The Batverse was a welcome escape, and that serves as context for how I approach the worlds of the fantasy series that I edit. Finally and this may sound odd to some people , when I was thirteen years old, I read Fear of Flying by Erica Jong — it was assigned in a women writers class. I felt seen by the character; she was so frank about sex and relationships and her sense of herself as a creative being, as a woman, as a Jewish woman.