By Joy Preble
I took pause for a moment when my lovely friend and mentor, Cyn Leitich Smith, asked me to write about what it’s like to be at this stage in my career.
“You know,” she said. “You’ve got a foothold but you’re not a new voice or (yet) a grand dame.”
The truth is that she nailed it exactly.
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From the promotional copy of They Call Me Alexandra Gastone by T.A. Maclagan (Full Fathom Five Digital, 2015):
When your life is a lie, how do you know what’s real?
Alexandra Gastone has a simple plan: graduate high school,
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Interview with Anne Ursu About The Real Boy by Corrine Duyvis from Disability in Kidlit. Peek: “Oscar isn’t labeled as autistic or having any kind of special needs in the book, and it’s been interesting to see who picks up on his autism. And many readers don’t. I’ve found that it tends to be people who are closely associated with autism in some way or another who see it.”
The Children’s Book Council (CBC), the non-profit trade association for children’s book publishers in North America, and grassroots nonprofit We Need Diverse Books™ (WNDB) today announced their partnership on educational programming and resources for interns selected for the WNDB Internship Program, launching this summer.
The program is designed to open up the children’s book publishing industry to talented job-seekers from diverse backgrounds,
Browse-able Excerpt from Epic Reads
I.W. Gregorio is the first-time author of None of the Above (Balzer+Bray/HarperCollins, 2015). From the promotional copy:
What if everything you knew about yourself changed in an instant?
When Kristin Lattimer is voted homecoming queen,
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Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith will appear this week at the 2015 Annual Conference of the Texas Library Association
in Austin.
Cynthia will speak on the panel, “A Colorful Canon: Building Diversity in Children’s Literature from 2 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. April 14
in Convention Center Room 10 C, Level 3.
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Linda at Cliffs of Moher
You’re a writer and an agent. Let’s start with Writer You. How did you come to literature for young readers?
When I was in middle school, I was obsessed with YA, like R.L. Stine’s Fear Street series (St. Martin’s Griffin), Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley High books (Bantam),
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Q&A with Rita Williams Garcia by Sue Corbett from Publishers Weekly. Peek: “I am a product of the Great Migration. My grandmother, my mother, and my father all came north from the south. We did not spend a lot of time home-going, but that didn’t stop me from imagining what it would be like.”
How would you describe yourself? A writing coach? Freelance editor? Independent study instructor?
Definitely a freelance editor. I’m not a writing teacher. I love to work on manuscripts that I feel have the potential to be published–ones where my feedback can help a writer shape his/her characters and story.
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By Allison Estes & Tracy Dockray
From the promotion copy of Izzy & Oscar (Jabberwocky/Sourcebooks, 2015):
Have you ever taught an octopus to roll over? It’s harder than it looks.
Discover why octopuses make the best pets in this charming picture book about friendship and embracing individuality!
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