Carole Garbuny Vogel is the award-winning author of 26 nonfiction books for children and young adults. Her father was a physicist, and she inherited his fascination with science.
Her first book was Why Mount St. Helens Blew Its Top, co-authored with Kathryn A. Goldner (Dillon Press, 1981), and Carole went on to write books about earthquakes,
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Story Secrets: Ice by Sarah Beth Durst from Holly Cupala. Peek: “I wrote this book as a love letter to my husband. It’s about true love… the kind of love where you’d go east of the sun and west of the moon for each other. So this novel is very closed to my heart.
Cynsations will be on hiatus from now until sometime shortly after Jan. 22 while I teach at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults winter 2010 residency in Montpelier.
I look forward to working with fellow faculty members Kathi Appelt, Margaret Bechard,
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For those holiday vacationers who may have missed it, last week I posted my Cynsational Books of 2009. I’d like to highlight just a couple more: The Dust of 100 Dogs by A.S. King (Flux, 2009) as well as The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series by Heather Brewer (Dutton,
Learn about Melissa Walker.
When and where do you write? Why does that time and space work for you?
I write in the bay window of my garden-floor brownstone apartment in Brooklyn. We don’t get much light on at this low level, but what light does come in dapples my overstuffed pink flowered chair each morning through early afternoon.
Beth Ann Bauman is the author of the short story collection Beautiful Girls (MacAdam/Cage, 2003) and a young-adult novel Rosie and Skate (Wendy Lamb/Random House, 2009), which Booklist named a 2009 Top 10 First Novel for Youth. From the promotional copy:
It’s off-season at the Jersey shore, when the boardwalk belongs to the locals.
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Learn about Claudia Guadalupe Martinez.
Could you describe the your experience working with an editor?
I’ve only written one book, but I couldn’t have asked for a better experience—I may have to light a candle when I submit my next book in hopes that my next experience is this positive. I tell people that working with my editor was like getting a free MFA.
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Enter the Morris/Nonfiction Book Trailer Contest from Keene Teen Readers & Gamers Weblog. Peek: “Teens ages 13-18 can make a 1-3 minute book trailer for any of the nominated books (or if they’d like, all of the nominees in one trailer), upload them to YouTube using the tags ‘yalsamorris’ or ‘yalsanf,’ and they can win a box of books and a $100 gift certificate to a major bookstore.”
Congratulations to the children’s-YA authors and illustrators of 2009! And thank you to everyone who discussed and debated and cheered and championed this year’s books! Just for fun, here are a few of my favorites.
Picture Books
All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon, illustrated by Marla Frazee (Beach Lane,
Jill S. Alexander is the first-time author of The Sweetheart of Prosper County (Feiwel & Friends, 2009). From the promotional copy:
Almost-15-year-old Austin Gray is tired of standing at the curb and watching the parade pass her by. Literally. She decides this is the year she’ll ride on the hood of a shiny pickup truck in the annual parade,
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