Crystal Allen is the first-time author of How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won A Bubba-Sized Trophy (Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins). From the promotional copy:
Thirteen-year-old Lamar Washington is the maddest, baddest most spectacular bowler ever at Striker’s Bowling Paradise. But when it comes to girls, he doesn’t have game—not like his older brother Xavier the Basketball Savior.
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It started with Creature Double Feature. Every Saturday afternoon, my father smoking a cigar, feet up. Me lying on the carpet, chin resting on hands, a foot from the television.
Basketball practice was over, and it was time for four hours of blue flickering horror. Horror movies, that is.
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First, here’s a patch of seasonal cheer! Many blessings to y’all!
Cheryl Klein Interview and Book Giveaway by Natalie from Literary Rambles. Peek: “After I had a pretty good number of talks online, writers started asking me, “So when are you going to put out a book?”
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Steven Kroll, an Author of Children’s Books, Dies at 69 by Dennis Hevesi from The New York Times. Peek: “…a prolific author of popular children’s books, many of them evoking his experiences growing up in what he called ‘the ethnic stew’ of Manhattan’s Upper West Side, died in Manhattan on March 8.”
By E. Lockhart
Cynthia’s invitation to write a guest blog post on the release of Real Live Boyfriends (Delacorte, 2010)(excerpt) came with a very mild suggestion that I might like to include a picture of my cat.
As you might guess from reading the Ruby Oliver books (of which The Boyfriend List (Delacorte,
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Sara Bennett Wealer is the first-time author of Rival (HarperTeen, 2011). From the promotional copy:
Meet Brooke: Popular, powerful and hating every minute of it, she’s the “It” girl at Douglas High in Lake Champion, Minnesota.
Her real ambition? Using her operatic mezzo as a ticket back to N.Y.C., where her family lived before her dad ran off with an up and coming male movie star.
Learn more about Vivian Vande Velde.
Rumor has it that you have a rockin’ critique group. Who are the members?
* Tedd Arnold (even though he hasn’t attended in a couple years)(writer/illustrator of picture books such as the Fly Guy books (Cartwheel), and writer of Rat Life (Dial,
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Shawn Goodman is the first-time author of Something Like Hope (Delacorte, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Shavonne is a fierce and desperate seventeen year-old who finds herself in a large juvenile lockup hundreds of miles from home. She wants to turn her life around before her eighteenth birthday, but her problems seem too big,
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Marianna Baer: new official site. Peek: “…received an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and a BA in art from Oberlin College. She also attended boarding school, where she lived in a tiny dorm called Frost House, the inspiration for her first novel,
Terry Lynn Johnson is the first-time author of Dogsled Dreams (4RV Publishing, 2011)(teacher’s guide). From the promotional copy:
Twelve-year-old Rebecca dreams of becoming a famous sled dog racer.
She’s an inventive but self-doubting musher who tackles blinding blizzards, wild animal attacks, puppy training, and flying poo missiles.
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