Bid to win manuscript critiques with authors, editors, and agents as well as limited edition, signed letterpress broadsides from the Vermont College of Fine Arts’ Hunger Mountain Holiday Fundraising Auction.
This auction features a 250-page manuscript critique with editor Stephen Roxburgh (interview); a 250-page manuscript critique with children’s-YA author Tim Wynne-Jones (interview);
Learn more about Mary Hershey.
Can you describe the best experience you’ve had working with an editor?
I’ve had the prodigious privilege of working with Wendy Lamb at Random House on my last three novels, all with excruciatingly long titles (Writing Tip #1: Be careful what you start): My Big Sister Is So Bossy She Says You Can’t Read This Book (2005),
Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith is now available in paperback from Walker Books (UK). See more information from Walker. The companion book Tantalize also is available from Walker. See more information about that too. Note: that the type style is much more elaborate than on the Candlewick (US) hardcover.
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Video Book Trailer Scholarship: “create a video book trailer for the verse novel Hugging the Rock by Susan Taylor Brown (Tricycle, 2006). Put together a cast and act it out, create an animation, or use photos with text set to music–it’s up to you. Win a $1000 scholarship!” Read a Cynsations interview with Susan.
By Rita Williams-Garcia,
author of Jumped (HarperCollins)
Phone…Bible…Phone…Bible
The first thing I do each morning is read my Bible, but as I was reaching for my NIV, the phone rings.
Lord, you know I put you first, but I can’t read my Scripture if I’m fixated on the ringing.
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Enter to win one of three signed copies of Watersmeet by Ellen Jensen Abbott (Marshall Cavendish, 2009)! From the promotional copy:
From her birth, Abisina has been an outcast-for the color of her eyes and skin, and for her lack of a father. Only her mother’s status as the village healer has kept her safe.
Learn about Barbara O’Connor.
When and where do you write? Why does that time and space work for you?
I’m a morning person all the way. I love the early morning and am always freshest and most creative then.
Honestly, I don’t think I could write at night if I had to.
Selene Castrovilla is the debut YA author of Saved By the Music (WestSide, 2009)(read her LJ). From the promotional copy:
The last place fifteen-year-old Willow wants to spend her summer is on a run-down former coffee barge in a boatyard in Rockaway in New York City. But that’s where her force-of-nature Aunt Agatha,
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Cynsations officially welcomes The Texas Sweethearts: Three Authors Who Write for Kids and Teens to the kidlitosphere! Peek: “We’re from the awesome state of Texas—Austin to be exact. (For you non-Texans, that’s the nice, shiny star in the center of the state.) We’re entertaining, engaging, and we want to make a difference.”
Meet sweethearts Jo Whittemore,
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Learn about Bruce Hale.
Could you describe the best experience you’ve had working with an editor?
Working with Michael Stearns, first at Harcourt, then at HarperCollins, has been my best editorial experience so far.
(So it’s all the more disappointing that he’s quit editing for agentry.)
Maybe you never forget the editor who first opens the door and ushers you into that club of published authors.
