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,
Obituary: Erik Blegvad from Publishers Weekly. Peek: “Acclaimed illustrator Erik Blegvad, whose artwork appeared in more than 100 children’s books, several of them by his wife, Lenore Blegvad (1926-2008), died on January 14 at the age of 90. Born in Copenhagen in 1923, Blegvad worked as an artist or illustrator from the earliest days of his career,
Congratulations to Jill Santopolo on the debut of the Sparkle Spa series (Simon & Schuster, 2014). From the promotional copy:
Sisters Aly and Brooke love spending time at their mom’s popular and successful nail salon—it’s their “home away from home.” At the end of another incredibly busy day,
Photo of Judy Blume by Carl Lender
Of late, a law school classmate mentioned how learning about an author enriched his reading experience.
As an author, I have mixed feelings about this.
Part of me feels self-conscious, yearns for privacy and wants the work to speak for itself.
I got my master’s degree in the spring of ’01. Basking in the glow of a few short publications (poetry, fiction, lit critique), and armed with the belief that a life as a novelist was mine for the taking, I decided to dive headfirst into my writing career.
This was made possible,
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Heather Demetrios is the first-time author of Something Real (Henry Holt, 2014)(excerpt). From the promotional copy:
Seventeen-year-old Bonnie™ Baker has grown up on TV—she and her twelve siblings are the stars of one-time hit reality show “Baker’s Dozen”.
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Are you struggling with a novel?
Is there a manuscript in a drawer that’s still haunting you?
Consider my latest story-behind-the-story:
Feral Curse (Candlewick, 2014) is a novel that rose from the ashes in more ways than one.
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So you’ve made some New Year’s resolutions for your writing.
You want to add sparkle to your voice or make your characters more real.
You’ve vowed to network more with other writers and you’d love to learn what’s really going on in the publishing market.
As for an agent,
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