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No Boundaries: A YA Novel Roadtrip by Naomi Bates from A Bookable Trip. A celebration of YA novels set in the U.S., state by state. Note: Texas is represented by Blessed by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Candlewick, 2011, 2012) and Soul Enchilada by David Macinnis Gill (HarperTeen,
Meredith Buchanan (MB) has been the marketing coordinator at Peachtree Publishers since 2010. She graduated from the University of Georgia in 2008 with degrees in English and photography, and received a Certificate in Publishing from New York University in 2009. At Peachtree,
Cynthia Y. Levinson is the first-time author of We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March (Peachtree, 2012)(excerpt)(blog). From the promotional copy:
The inspiring story of one of the greatest moments in civil rights history as seen through the eyes of four young people who were at the center of the action.
Sophie Jordan grew up in the Texas hill country where she wove fantasies of dragons, warriors, and princesses. A former high school English teacher, she’s also the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Avon historical romances. She now lives in Houston with her family.
When she’s not writing,
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Shannon Wiersbitzky is the first-time author of The Summer of Hammers & Angels (Namelos, 2011). From the promotional copy:
Most folks have never seen an angel.
I know, because I’ve asked them.
Congratulations to RA Debbie Gonzales, ARA Carmen Oliver, Illustration Chair Mark G. Mitchell, and the faculty, volunteers, and attendees at yesterday’s Austin SCBWI Regional Conference, “Something for Everybody,” at St. Edward’s University.
Faculty included: authors Lisa Yee,
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Check out the book trailer for It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw by Don Tate, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Lee & Low, April 2012). Note: Don is a co-founder of The Brown Bookshelf: United in Story,
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On Being Thin Skinned by David Macinnis Gill from I Am Chikin, Hear Me Roar. Peek: “…thick-skinned people are not very good writers. They are bullet
proof to criticism, yes, but they also lack the insight and empathy
required to feel the emotions that should resonant throughout their
work.”
Just as I was finishing my first novel, What Can’t Wait (2011), I came across a news feature on a controversial gang fight in Houston and two teens who were involved: a white girl and a Salvadoran-American boy. I began to follow the story, and the idea for The Knife and the Butterfly started brewing.
Megan Bostic is the first-time author of Never Eighteen (Graphia, 2012)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
I had the dream again. The one where I’m running. I don’t know what from or where to, but I’m scared, terrified really.
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