Don Gallo & Will Weaver
What is LitWeaver and how did it come to be?
Will Weaver: LitWeaver is young adult literature outreach to schools by the authors themselves. We believe YA lit should be more accessible, more varied,
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Little Brown, 2011; learn more!
By Michelle Ray
“Falling for Hamlet is going to be a TV show! They’re calling it ‘The Royals,’ and it’ll be on E!” my agent emailed me.
It seemed absolutely impossible. Growing up in Los Angeles, I have many friends in “The Business,” and screenplays and novels are optioned all the time.
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The Children’s Book Guild of Washington, DC, announces its 38th Annual Nonfiction Award presentation to Steve Sheinkin at noon April 25 at Clyde’s Gallery Place Restaurant in Washington DC. The Guild’s Nonfiction Award celebrates a body of work that has “contributed significantly to the quality of nonfiction for children.”
The Award committee cited Sheinkin’s superb ability to find the heart of the story,
Ilsa vs. The White Rabbit (Not Part of the Dream)
By Ilsa J. Bick
I had this weird dream last night.
I’m in an office of some sort and there are all these old Star Trek books lying around that someone’s packing away.
Thing is, I know they’re not my Trek books because Spock’s on every cover,
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For years I’ve visited a small, Lake Erie island, a short ferry’s ride from the mainland. I go there in the summer or early autumn, when the water is still warm and the light golden.
Along with the other tourists, I walk the shore, drink the bad local wine,
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British Young Adult Author Mal Peet Dies at 67 from the Associated Press. Peek:
Peet wrote young-adult novels, as well as educational children’s books co-authored with his wife Elspeth Graham. He won the 2005 Carnegie Medal for Tamar, a historical novel set during World War II.
Marieke Nijkamp is a storyteller, dreamer, globe-trotter, and diversity advocate.
She holds degrees in philosophy, history, and medieval studies, and wants to grow up to be a queer time traveler.
In the midnight hours of the day, Marieke writes stories full of hope and heartbreak.
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Congratulations to Laura Ruby on the release of Bone Gap (Balzer + Bray, 2015). From the promotional copy:
Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps—gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever. So when young, beautiful Roza went missing,
Hooray! Laney Nielson, recipient of the 2014 Austin SCBWI Cynthia Leitich Smith Mentor Award, has signed with literary agent Bethany Buck of Greenburger Associates.
Laney Nielson is a writer who lives in Plano, Texas.
A former upper elementary school teacher,
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Brooks Sherman is an agent with The Bent Agency.
He represents picture books, fiction for young adult and middle-grade-readers, select literary and commercial adult fiction, and nonfiction in the areas of humor, pop culture, and narrative nonfiction.
He was interviewed by Elisabeth Norton for the SCBWI Europolitan Conference.
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