Interview with Susan L. Roth
by TLA member Jeanette Larson
of Austin, Texas
Take a Chance on Art 2010: Disaster Relief Raffle sponsored by the Texas Library Association. Peek: “Big white mouse and little brown mouse are tending a garden of flowers on the May pages in Susan L.
Cover Stories: Alibi Junior High by Greg Logstead from Melissa Walker at readergirlz. Peek: “My publisher asked for ideas, and unfortunately, all I could come up with was my very vague ‘it should be really cool’ suggestion. Which in retrospect isn’t much help at all.”
Enter to win copies of To Be A Slave by Julius Lester and Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin from Lee Verday at By Pen or By Sword…a blog about books,
Interview by Jenny Desmond Walters for SCBWI Bologna 2010.
First, Rosemary, thank you for taking the time to answer some questions for our attendees at the 2010 SCBWI Bologna conference.
I should probably admit, up front, that I spent so much time smiling alone in my office while reading about you on the Internet that I began checking to make sure no one was watching me in the process.
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Deborah Lytton is the first-time author of Jane in Bloom (Dutton, 2009). From the promotional copy:
Jane’s big sister, Lizzie, has always been the center of attention. No one ever pays attention to boring, plain Jane.
But when Jane’s twelfth birthday marks the beginning of Lizzie’s final descent into a fatal eating disorder,
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Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith is now available in paperback in the U.S. from Candlewick Press. From the promotional copy:
At last, Miranda is the life of the party: all she had to do was die.
Elevated and adopted by none other than the reigning King of the Mantle of Dracul,
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Interview by Jenny Desmond Walters for SCBWI Bologna 2010; photo of Leonard by Sonya Sones.
As a historian and leading authority on children’s literature in America, your knowledge of the history of books for children is inspiring.
As you followed the development of children’s books through the last 300 years,
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Austin SCBWI‘s Destination Publication: An Awesome Austin Conference for Writers and Illustrators took place last weekend. Keynote speakers were Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson and two-time Caldecott Honor [author-] illustrator Marla Frazee.
The faculty also included: editor Cheryl Klein of Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic; author-editor Lisa Graff,
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Enter to win a copy of Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire by Julius Lester (Harcourt, 2007)! From the promotional copy (slightly tweaked to condense):
This is the story of Cupid—the god responsible for heartache, sleepless nights, and all those silly love songs—finally getting his comeuppance.
When the god of love falls in love himself,
Interview by Jenny Desmond Walters for SCBWI Bologna 2010
As an author/illustrator of over 35 award-winning children’s books that have been published around the globe, what advice do you have for writers who are just starting out?
Write about something that you’re passionate about. It shows in the words and art.
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Learn about Bonnie Christensen.
Note: interior illustrations below are from Bonnie’s Django, World’s Greatest Jazz Guitarist (Neal Porter/Roaring Brook, 2009) and featured here with permission.
What do you love most about the creative life?
In attempting to answer this question, I ran straight into a wall. There are so very many things to love about the creative life,
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