Micol Ostow has written over 40 published works for readers of all ages.
Her novel, Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa (Razorbill, 2006), was named a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, and the recently-launched Bradford novels (Simon Pulse, 2009-) are breaking new ground in interactive media and young adult lit.
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Ann Finnin is the first-time YA author of The Sorcerer of Sainte Felice (Flux, 2010). From the promotional copy:
“I was only an apprentice. I swear it. By all the angels in Heaven.”
Condemned to death by the Holy Office for sorcery, fifteen-year-old Michael de Lorraine is rescued from the flames by Abbot Francis and granted refuge at Sainte Felice,
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Last week, I turned in my notes on both the pass pages of Blessed and the copy edits of Tantalize: Kieren’s Story, a graphic novel being illustrated by Ming Doyle (both Candlewick, Feb. 2011). This week, I’m diving back into Eternal: Zachary’s Story, likewise to be illustrated by Ming.
To celebrate, here’s a artlapse video of Ming Doyle painting The Joker (15 minutes scrunched to one):
I’m pleased to announce that Eternal is now available in Poland.
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On Learning How to Write by Lisa Schroeder from Crowe’s Nest. Peek: “I’ve been writing seriously for almost ten years, and during that time, I’ve often wished I could pursue a formal education in creative writing. But it’s not something I’ve been able to do for a lot of different reasons. So, I’ve had to learn the old fashioned way.”
Over the past thirteen years, I’ve published eighteen books—some fiction, some nonfiction, three ghostwritten, and one picture book. But my latest book, Nocture (Mirrorstone, 2010), is a first for me.
Nocture is a young adult novel, which is new territory for a writer who’s been solidly entrenched in middle grade for most of her writing career.
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Check out my recent musings at two terrific blogs in the kidlitosphere:
Guest Dispatches: Cynthia Leitich Smith/Austin, Texas, hosted by Janni Lee Simner from Desert Dispatches. Peek: “Austin is the kind of place that’s almost impossible to leave—a capital city, a college town, high tech, overeducated, joyfully diverse. Crunchy, funky, corporate and entrepreneurial.
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Howdy to librarian Jennifer Beckstead and the YA readers at Natrona County Public Library (Casper, Wyoming) Book Club!
Thank you for reading Tantalize (Candlewick, 2007, 2008). I hope you enjoy Quincie’s story.
Blessed, which will come out next February, picks up at the scene where Tantalize leaves out, and the story incorporates characters from Eternal (Candlewick,
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When I wrote my first book, Sucks to Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (Maybe) (Mirrorstone, 2008, 2009), I had ideas for what the next two books (should I get to write them, of course) would be like.
But a lot of things changed after my publisher decided to take a chance on me,
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N.H. Senzai is the first-time author of Shooting Kabul (Paula Wiseman/Simon & Schuster, 2010)(chapter one). From the promotional copy:
Fadi never imagined he’d start middle school in Fremont, California, thousands of miles away from home in Kabul. But, here he was, half a world apart from his missing six-year-old sister who’d been lost because of him,
