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,
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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On the Act of Writing by Cate Tiernan from Teenreads.com. Peek: “I’m trying to interpret the world around me (and the world inside me), and I’m trying to express that in a way that others will understand, and perhaps come to see themselves in, at least a little bit.”
Habits of a Working Writer by Kristi Holl from Writer’s First Aid.
Learn about Shutta Crum.
What first inspired you to write across forms in children’s-YA literature?
Well, I’ve always loved children’s literature at all levels. However, here is the story of how I specifically came to writing one idea three ways.
Like many writers, poetry was my first love–as far as the written word is concerned.
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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Tameka Fryer Brown is the first-time author of Around Our Way on Neighbors’ Day, illustrated by Charlotte Riley-Webb (Abrams, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Neighbors gather on a hot summer day for a joyful block party: Kids play double Dutch; men debate at the barber shop and play chess;
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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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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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Learn more about Lisa Firke of Hit Those Keys.
Thank you so much for redesigning my official author site! Could you give folks new to it a brief overview, from a web designer’s perspective, of the monstrous beast that it is?
Sure! Well, just in terms of literal size,
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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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