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Inside the collaboration between Baby-Sitters Club writer Ann M. Martin and Amber Brown is Not a Crayon author Paula Danziger
The beloved author says that working with another writer taught her some new literary strategies
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At New York Comic Con 2025, Popverse’s Ashley V. Robinson got the chance to sit down in The Studio with the legendary author Ann M. Martin. Martin, who you will know as the creator of The Baby-Sitters Club prose series, was attending her very first comic con at NYCC ’25. During the conversation in The Studio, Martin revealed plenty of interesting details about her prolific career, including what she learned while collaborating with fellow author Paula Danziger, the creator of the Amber Brown series.
The topic came up when Robinson asked about Martin’s many collaborations with other creative people. “What do you think, as a writer, brings out your best work when you’re working with collaborators?” Martin answered that it was “figuring out ways with the collaborator to work the best way together.”
Martin continued, “Up until I collaborated with Paula Danziger [on the epistolary novel P.S. Longer Letter Later], I had only ever written on my own. And I’m a very solitary person. I have my very specific ways of outlining and everything. And Paula didn’t ever outline… And she didn’t want to have an outline for the book. So I went along with it, and it was great. It was a really wonderful experience.”
Martin went with Danziger’s desire to not write using an outline for P.S. Longer Letter Later. But the shift in process didn’t stick. “I went right back to outlining after that book,” Martin confirmed.
Are you interested in the entire conversation Martin and Robinson had in The Studio? Popverse has you covered, with video of the whole interview available for you to watch now:
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