Here’s the cover art for my YA Gothic fantasy, Blessed!
The publication date has been moved up. The novel will be available beginning Jan. 25, 2011 from Candlewick Press.
If you’re a die-hard, no-spoilers person, you may want to stop reading now. If not, continue on for my latest YA author bio,
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Shari Maurer is the first-time author of Change of Heart (WestSide, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, popular varsity soccer star Emmi comes down with an ordinary virus. But when she doesn’t bounce back as always, she gets the worst possible news—she’s had myocarditis that’s destroyed her heart,
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Exciting news! School Library Journal has created a new award for book trailers. Dubbed “the Trailie,” the awards in each category will be voted on by the public, and the winners will be announced at the School Library Journal Leadership Summit on the Future of Reading on Oct.
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By Arthur Slade
I wrote a steampunk novel. I didn’t mean to, but I did. What I first wanted to do was write a “Jules Vernian/Charles Dickensian/H.G. Wellsian Adventure” that drew from the classics of Victorian literature.
Turns out I was writing steampunk.
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Eden Maguire is the first-time author of Beautiful Dead (Book 1 – Jonas)(Sourcebooks, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Not alive. Not dead. Somewhere in between lie the Beautiful Dead.
Something strange is happening at Ellerton High. Phoenix is the fourth teenager to die within a year. His street-fight stabbing follows the deaths of Jonas,
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Nightfall Scary Story Writing Contest from Lerner Books. Peek: “After reading Thaw—our free Night Fall™ eBook—we want you to become an author and create a creepy ending to a scary story just like the tales told in our new Night Fall series.” The winner will receive two complete sets of all six books in the Night Fall™ series—one for the winner and one for the winner’s school library;
By Gail Giles
Blocked. No exit.
You’ve even tried tunneling. No luck.
Been there? I’ve always been so prissy. “I’m never blocked. I have a method.”
Yes, indeedy do, I have a method and it’s great. When it works. It’s the Hemingway, method and I recommend it.
Chiêu Anh Urban is the first-time author of Raindrops: A Shower of Colors, illustrated by Viviana Garofoli (Sterling, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Look—a rainbow of colors is showering down on the animals!
This very simple, beautiful, and innovative concept book shows children how primary colors magically blend to create secondary ones.
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When I read, I am constantly connecting my current book to others I have read.
For instance, when I read Cynthia’s Tantalize (Candlewick, 2007), I recalled Annette Curtis Klause’s The Silver Kiss (Delacorte, 1990) and Tobin Anderson’s Thirsty (Candlewick,
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Pamela Ellen Ferguson is the first-time author of Sunshine Picklelime, illustrated by Christian Slade (Random House, 2010). From the promotional copy:
PJ Picklelime lives in a village very close to you. Meadows are knee-deep in wildflowers in early springtime. Summers are hot and dreamy when golden peaches the size of melons hang from the trees.
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