New Voice-Literacy Activist: Riley Carney on The Reign of the Elements series and Breaking the Chain

New Voice-Literacy Activist: Riley Carney on The Reign of the Elements series and Breaking the Chain

Riley Carney is the first-time author of The Fire Stone: Book One of The Reign of the Elements and The Water Stone: Book Two of The Reign of the Elements (both BookLight Press, 2010)(author blog). From the promotional copy of The Fire Stone:

Matt knows how to shovel hay,

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New Voice: Kristin Walker on A Match Made In High School

New Voice: Kristin Walker on A Match Made In High School

Kristin Walker is the first-time author of A Match Made In High School (Razorbill, 2010). From the promotional copy:

When the principal announces that every senior must participate in a mandatory year-long Marriage Education program, Fiona Sheehan believes that her life can’t get any worse.

Then she marries her “husband”: jerky jock Todd,

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Clarion To Publish The Chronal Engine: Ahead of Time by Greg Leitich Smith

Clarion To Publish The Chronal Engine: Ahead of Time by Greg Leitich Smith


Breaking news!

Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) will publish The Chronal Engine: Ahead of Time by Greg Leitich Smith (2012). Greg describes the book as a “mystery-adventure, time-travel novel.”

From Publishers Marketplace, “Using their reclusive grandfather’s time machine, a trio of contemporary teens travel to the Age of the Dinosaurs to solve a family mystery and rescue their sister…”

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Guest Post: Kristina Springer on Writing the Second (and Third) Novel

Guest Post: Kristina Springer on Writing the Second (and Third) Novel

By Kristina Springer

My second book, My Fake Boyfriend is Better Than Yours (FSG, 2010), just came out Aug. 31, and I’m really excited about it!

Writing it was such a blast for me! I keep thinking back to this book and why I loved writing it so much, and I think it was because I flashed back a lot to my own time in seventh grade.

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Celebrating VCFA Graduates Anne Bustard and Lindsey Lane

Celebrating VCFA Graduates Anne Bustard and Lindsey Lane

On Sept. 1, about 40 Austin writers and illustrators gathered at my house to celebrate Anne Bustard‘s and Lindsey Lane‘s recent completion of their MFA degrees in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Anne and Lindsey graduated in the July 2010 class. Both are published picture book authors.

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New Voice: Inara Scott on Delcroix Academy: The Candidates

New Voice: Inara Scott on Delcroix Academy: The Candidates

Inara Scott is the first-time author of Delcroix Academy: The Candidates (Hyperion, 2010). From the promotional copy:

Dancia Lewis is far from popular. And that’s not just because of her average grades or her less-than-glamorous wardrobe.

In fact, Dancia’s mediocrity is a welcome cover for her secret: whenever she sees a person threatening someone she cares about,

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