James Klise, author of Love Drugged (Flux, 2010), writes, “We saw the Polish edition of Eternal in Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk, and Torun (famous for two things: Copernicus and gingerbread!). The Polish chain Empik, which is like Borders, is promoting it heavily. Yay!”
Let’s take a peek!
In celebration of her newly redesigned website, Heather Vogel Frederick is giving away three advance reader copies of her upcoming release, Pies & Prejudice (Simon & Schuster, Sept. 14, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Right before the start of their freshman year, the mother-daughter book club faces yet another challenge when Emma’s family unexpectedly moves to England.
People have asked me lately how it feels to transition into writing a picture book, and I don’t know how to answer that question.
I don’t know if I can say that I am a picture book writer now, even though my first picture book comes out this August.
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Leah Cypess is the first-time author of Mistwood (Greenwillow/HarperCollins, 2010). From the promotional copy:
The Shifter is an immortal creature bound by an ancient spell to protect the kings of Samorna. When the realm is peaceful, she retreats to the Mistwood. But when she is needed she always comes.
Isabel remembers nothing.
I love to hear my daughter Laura laugh. We’re at Mario’s Restaurant on a Friday night, all of us, and she’s talking about teaching at the school’s afternoon center.
I’m smiling, more because of the sound of her laughter than what she says.
My grandson Jimmy also works at the center,
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Jacqueline Houtman is the first-time author of The Reinvention of Edison Thomas (Front Street, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Science geek Eddy Thomas can invent useful devices to do anything, except solve his bully problem.
Eddy Thomas can read a college physics book, but he can’t read the emotions on the faces of his classmates at Drayton Middle School.
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It’s my pleasure today to debut the book trailer for my upcoming picture book, Holler Loudly, illustrated by Barry Gott (Dutton, Nov. 11, 2010).
Holler Loudly has a voice as big as the Southwestern sky, and everywhere he goes people tell him to “Hush!” From math class to the movies and even the state fair,
Enter to win an author-signed copy of Busing Brewster by Richard Michelson, illustrated by R.G. Roth (Knopf, 2010). From the promotional copy:
This powerful and tender story of desegregation busing in the 1970s introduces readers to the brave young heroes who helped to build a new world.
To enter,
From her official website: “For more than twenty years, Deborah Sloan has led authors and illustrators through the world of publishing and book selling, establishing a reputation for inspired and compelling marketing and promotion for books in every category, with a special focus on children’s books. She is considered a trusted source of insight and information on bookselling by national media.
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Irene Latham is the first-time author of Leaving Gee’s Bend (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Ludelphia Bennett may be blind in one eye, but that doesn’t mean she can’t put in a good stitch. In fact, Ludelphia sews all the time, especially when things are going wrong.
But when Mama gets deathly ill,
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