Past Watchful Dragons: Why One Christian Author Chose To Write For The General Market
"I wanted to write a story that could be read and enjoyed by a wider audience, including and especially those readers who did not already share my beliefs."

Disablism in Children's Fiction: Please Don't
"Please, let's stop writing characters with disabilities as though they're all doomed to suffer nobly and die tragically..."

Sex, Violence and the Challenging of YA Books: Is There a Double Standard?
"I believe that what's really at stake here is not the kind of behaviour the conservative parents involved approve or disapprove, but the behaviour they are most concerned their children will emulate..."

The Beautiful Other: or, Why I Write About Faeries
"I wasn't interested in exploring what faeries are and have, so much as what they aren't and haven't..."

The Problem of Susan
"Over the last few years I have heard many indignant complaints about the treatment of Susan in the Narnia books, specifically in The Last Battle..."

INTERVIEWS
Imaginary Reads (07/12/11) * WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS *
"I hoped to make Ultraviolet the kind of book that people would want to read twice -- once when they don't know the twist, and once again when they do to pick up all the clues they might have missed along the way."

VIDEO: Q&A with Orchard Books  (02/04/11)

Opening Up New Worlds With R.J. Anderson (12/06/2010)
"It seemed like the books I kept coming back to again and again were those I’d discovered in my childhood and early teens."

Q&A with HarperCollins on Wayfarer (04/10/10)
"To me, fantasy and SF offer a chance to explore emotional, philosophical, and moral issues in a fresh and interesting way."

We Love YA (12/28/09)
"I think I just have a crazy writer brain, really. Ideas for me were like an itch I had to scratch, and it never occurred to me NOT to write."

R.J. Anderson Unveils the Writing Life (03/24/09)
"I didn't want to force anything in there, but on the other hand, I didn't just want to write an exciting story with no depth or substance to it..."

Behind the Pages (03/09/09)
"...it is REALLY nice not to have to write query letters to agents and editors any more. I was always terrible at those."

Look at that Book (02/14/09)
"...it ticked me off that in all the books I'd read the disabled guy never got to be the romantic lead."

5 Minutes with R.J. Anderson (12/01/08)
"I hardly dared to hope that I would get not one, but TWO fantastic covers, by two such talented artists."

Authors on the Verge (11/20/08)
"I’m not normally an emotional person, but in mid-April of last year I lay on my office floor sobbing, bitterly convinced that I would never, ever be published…"

Fumbling With Fiction (11/18/08)
"It took me a ridiculously long time to realize that my book was YA instead of an 'adult' fantasy."