Gayle Rosengren is the first-time author of What the Moon Said (Putnam, 2014). From the promotional copy:
Thanks to her superstitious mother, Esther knows some tricks for avoiding bad luck: toss salt over your left shoulder,
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Weekend highlights included Nikki Loftin‘s launch party for Nightingale’s Nest (Razorbill, 2014) at BookPeople in Austin, followed by a reception at The Writing Barn.
Greg Leitich Smith, Nikki & me
Celebratory cake for Nightingale’s Nest
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Check out this video interview with Robert Paul Weston about The Creature Department (Razorbill, 2013) by Gugor from Penguin Young Readers. From the promotional copy:
It’s a tentacled, inventive, gooey, world in there. . . .
Elliot Von Doppler and his friend Leslie think nothing ever happens in Bickleburgh,
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Check out the book trailer for The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson (Penguin, 2014) From the promotional copy:
For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq.
Beyond Bollywood: South Asian American Middle Grade Fiction from From the Mixed-Up Files of Middle Grade Authors. Peek: “Our stories are funny, tragic, brave, silly, and, most importantly, varied.” See also Diversity in YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults by Malinda Lo from Diversity in YA.
Melanie Bishop is the first-time author of My So-Called Ruined Life (Torrey House, 2014). From the promotional copy:
Tate McCoy has not spoken to her alcoholic mother in two years, and then her mom is murdered and her father is the prime suspect.
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What images do you recall from childhood?
When I think of the quintessential American Indian sidekick in mainstream media, the name that first springs to mind is “Tonto.”
Sorry, Johnny Depp—I adore your Captain Jack Sparrow—but by that, I mean the “faithful Indian companion” depicted by Jay Silverheels (Mohawk),
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Kristen writing in her son’s fort
My third book comes out this February – the last book in the Article 5 series – and though I feel fortunate to have additional stand alone titles to follow it in the coming years, I can’t help but feel like a very important part of my life is coming to a close.
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Sometimes a book is years in the making. And the writer doesn’t even know that it is gestating.
Such is the case with my book, October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard (Candlewick, 2012). Unbeknownst to me, I started writing the book on October 12, 1998.
On that Monday morning,
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Maxine Kumin in The New Yorker by Paul Muldoon from The New Yorker. Peek: “Her poems…have the virtue of being meticulously observed and of dealing plainly with the things of the world.” Note: article includes audio of Maxine reading.
Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer-Winning Poet With a Naturalist’s Precision,
