JULIA SPENCER-FLEMING: You have a middle-grade kid in your life, and you want to give them a terrific book for the holidays. They’re your grandchild, or a nibling (I love that neologism!) or a friend’s child or your neighbor’s delightful fifth-grader. I got you, fam. Tilia Klebenov Jacobs, author of STEALING TIME, has a new adventure out with her co-writer, Norman Birnbach. WHY SHOULD I TRUST YOU? is rooted in the 2020 pandemic–
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Along with hoarding TP and washing groceries, the pandemic shut down inspired a LOT of creative work. Tilia is here today to tell us about how it affected her life – and her writing.