“We love the things we love for what they are.”
That’s from Robert Frost‘s Hyla Brook.
Variations on the line had been bouncing around in my head for a while before my husband and fellow writer,
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Shelley Coriell is the first-time author of Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe
(Amulet, 2012). From the promotional copy:
Chloe Camden has a big heart and an even bigger collection of vintage shoes.
Life is good…until her best friend turns the entire school against her and her counselor axes her junior independent study project.
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Compiled by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Check out the book trailer for Cinder (Book One in the Lunar Chronicles) by Marissa Meyer (Feiwel & Friends, 2012). From the promotional copy:
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space,
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Love, true love (1993).
By C.J. Omololu
I remember meeting my husband like it was yesterday.
I was an enthusiastic twenty-something on my first day at my new job in advertising for a San Francisco weekly newspaper. The building was filled with artsy, interesting people, and as I got the standard tour of my new offices,
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Tanita is a featured author on the SBBT
Check out the Summer 2012 Blog Blast Tour from Colleen Mondor at Chasing Ray. Really, it features amazing writers like Y.S. Lee, Cynthia Levinson, Rosemary Clement-Moore, and Robin LaFevers,
Julie Anne Peters is the author of 18 books for young adults and children, plus short stories in anthologies, and she looks forward to a new novel to be released in 2014.)
Her YA novel, Luna, was a National Book Award finalist, a Colorado Book Award winner,
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Anne Greenwood Brown is the first-time author of Lies Beneath (Random House, 2012). From the promotional copy:
Calder White lives in the cold, clear waters of Lake Superior, the only brother in a family of murderous mermaids. To survive, Calder and his sisters prey on humans,
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By Shana Burg
for Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations
The idea for Laugh with the Moon (Delacorte, 2012) came from an experience I had when I was in graduate school for public policy. I did some work for a professor at the Harvard Institute of International Development.
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Meet editor Christie Harkin.
By Lena Coakley
This May, I had a chance to sit down with Christie Harkin, children’s book editor at Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publishers in Canada.
Christie has been an editor at Fitzhenry & Whiteside for the past four years.
In her former life,
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Science Fiction Pioneer Ray Bradbury Has Died from The Chicago Tribune. Peek: “In his career, he wrote more than 30 books, hundreds of short stories, plus poetry, plays and books for children.”
Sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury Dies from CNN. Peek: “Science fiction author Ray Bradbury,
