Interview by Sarah Blake Johnson for SCBWI Bologna 2010
First of all, congratulations! Your book Do! illustrated by Ramesh Hengadi and Shantaram Dhadpe, is the Bologna Ragazzi New Horizons award winner for 2010.
The jury praised the books text and artwork stating: “Paper and figures are embroidered with a lace like precision.
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From Anna Olswanger:
Have you written a children’s or YA manuscript that you believe is publishable, but which has been turned down without encouragement or advice by agents and publishers?
Are you hungry for feedback on your writing for children?
We think we can help!
We are three literary agents in daily contact with clients and publishers,
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Welcome back, April Lurie! You last visited Cynsations in June 2007 interview to talk about Brothers, Boyfriends and Other Criminal Minds (Delacorte, 2007)! Do you have any news to share about this title? How about any of your other back-list books?
Thanks for having me back! Actually, yes, I have good news about Brothers,
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Mandy Hubbard began her career in publishing on the other side of the desk: as an author. Her titles include Prada & Prejudice (Razorbill/Penguin, 2009), Driven (Harlequin, 2010), You Wish (Razorbill/Penguin, 2010) and Shattered (Flux, 2011).
She interned with The Bent Agency before joining D4EO Literary,
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Lauren Kate is the first-time author of Fallen (Delacorte, 2009). From the promotional copy:
There’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.
Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia.
28 Days Later: Tonya Hegamin by The Brown Bookshelf from 28 Days Later: A Black History Month Celebration of Children’s Literature. Peek: “I’m a storyteller. In teaching fiction and in teaching poetry I want to get my students to the same underbelly of human beauty that strikes a chord in the reader.” Note: 28 Days Later is a month-long series;
Come join me today at the TRT (Teens Read Too) Book Club!
There, you’ll find a new Q&A interview.
And in the comments section, you’re invited to ask questions or share your thoughts for a chance to win a paperback copy of Eternal (Candlewick, 2010)(excerpt) and your choice of an Eternal T-shirt!
By Alison Hart
I’ll admit it: I have been horse crazy since my first Steiff pony and Billy and Blaze picture book by C.W. Anderson (1936).
Decades later, I still ride, continue to read horse books (try Chosen by a Horse, a memoir by Susan Richardson (Mariner,
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Interviewed by Laura Watkinson for SCBWI Bologna 2010
Your latest novel, Tricks (McElderry, 2009), focuses on the lives of five very different teens, whose stories interweave to form a larger narrative.
What was it like to work with five different characters and five story lines? Did you feel more attached to one particular character?
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Sandwiched between 80 million baby boomers and the 78 million members of Generation Y (who are also called millennials), Generation X—roughly defined as anyone born between 1965 and 1980—has just 46 million members, condemning it by numbers alone to demographic insignificance.
It’s my generation, defined as much by Pac-Man,
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