Peggy Eddleman is the first-time author of Sky Jumpers (Random House, 2013). From the promotional copy:
Twelve-year-old Hope lives in White Rock, a town of inventors struggling to recover from the green bombs of World War III.
But Hope is terrible at inventing and would much rather sneak off to cliff dive into the Bomb’s Breath—the deadly band of compressed air that covers the crater left by the bombs—than fail at yet another invention.
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You can snag free copies of two of my short stories, “Haunted Love” and “Cat Calls,” from E-volt & a copy of Tantalize (Book 1 in the Tantalize series) for only $1.99 through 2/28.
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Years ago I wrote a quirky short story about teens in an Eating Disorders Unit of a metropolitan hospital.
Sort of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” meets “Love Story.” Then titled “Iris and Jim,” it sold to a major literary journal. Later, a London publisher included “Iris and Jim” in their YA anthology,
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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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Compiled by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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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