{"id":1641,"date":"2018-09-24T17:20:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T21:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymamas.com\/wp\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2018-09-24T17:20:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T21:20:45","slug":"nerd-alert-author-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymamas.com\/wp\/2018\/09\/24\/nerd-alert-author-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"NERD ALERT! (Author Interview)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1645 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/storymamas.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fullsizerender-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storymamas.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fullsizerender-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/storymamas.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fullsizerender-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/storymamas.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fullsizerender-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 85vw, 462px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Enginerds<\/em> is a hilarious story of a battle between boys and robots and it will make you laugh to the nerd degree! A group of boys who call themselves the EngiNerds, who are mostly friends, are all incredibly smart and most definitely nerdy, find themselves fighting bots who shoot food combustibles out of their butts (what&#8217;s not to love)! Ken, the main character, encounters a robot named Greeg in a box full of parts. He begins to put him together but doesn&#8217;t have time to finish and the next thing he knows, there is a walking, talking, 90 mph fart-blasting robot walking around his house! He has no idea where Greeg came from and after the initial excitement over finding his very own robot, he realizes he needs to figure out what to do with him and where he came from. Once he realizes a fellow EngiNerd has designed, built and delivered robots around town he&#8217;s faced with a new challenge: to save the world from their destruction! We can&#8217;t wait for the next book, <em>Revenge of the EngiNerds<\/em> coming February 2019! Thank you to author, Jarrett Lerner, for making us laugh and for taking the time to answer some questions about your book and yourself!<\/p>\n<p><b>3 Questions about <\/b><b><i>Enginerds<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">What are three words you\u2019d use to describe your book?<\/span> <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friends. Food. Farts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>What literary character would Ken and Greeeg be friends with and why?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I like to think that Ken could be friends and have fun with just about anyone, but I REALLY like to think about what might happen if my characters somehow got mixed up with the kids (and adults, and clown-snakes, and lobster-monkeys) in Rob Vlock\u2019s SVEN CARTER series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And as for Greeeg &#8212; I like to imagine him meeting WALL-E, and hopefully learning a thing or two from the little guy! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>Besides peanut butter on popcorn, were there any other bizarre (but yummy) food references that didn\u2019t make the final draft? <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No. But I\u2019ve got a friend who often eats pickles with his ice cream. I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll work that into a book sooner or later!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>3 Questions about You<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>If you weren\u2019t a writer, what would you want to be and why?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A donut-taster. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s really a job, but since we&#8217;re in the world of hypotheticals, I\u2019m making it one. And WHY would I want to be a donut-taster? Because I\u2019d get to taste donuts all day!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>What is one book that has stuck with you since you\u2019ve read it?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Come on, Storymamas &#8212; you should know that, when asked a question like this, a passionate reader can never just name ONE book. How about I limit myself to three? Here I go: Ann Braden\u2019s THE BENEFITS OF BEING AN OCTOPUS, Kelly Yang\u2019s FRONT DESK, Yuyi Morales\u2019s DREAMERS, and Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James\u2019s CROWN: AN ODE TO THE FRESH CUT. Okay, fine &#8212; that was four! We better hurry up and move on to the last question before I name a fifth (which would probably be Thyra Heder\u2019s ALFIE or Michael Ian Black and Debbie Ridpath Ohi\u2019s I\u2019M SAD or maybe Christina Uss\u2019s THE ADVENTURES OF A GIRL CALLED BICYCLE.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>What is one item in your refrigerator that tells us about you?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A large jar of yeast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to learn more about Jarrett Lerner and his nerdiness visit his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jarrettlerner.com\/\">website<\/a> or you can find her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jarrett_Lerner\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jarrettlerner\/\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jarrett.lerner\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enginerds is a hilarious story of a battle between boys and robots and it will make you laugh to the nerd degree! 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