Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith is now available in paperback from Walker Books Australia and New Zealand! See more information from Walker Books Australia and New Zealand.
The companion book, Tantalize, also is available in both hardcover and paperback from Walker Books Australia and New Zealand.
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Samantha R. Vamos is the first-time author of Before You Were Here, Mi Amor, illustrated by Santiago Cohen (Viking, 2009).
Could you tell us the story of “the call” or “the email” when you found out that your book had sold? How did you react? How did you celebrate?
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Browse, bid, and win for a good cause at this online auction to raise money for Bridget Zinn!
Bridget is a 32-year-old YA author and librarian who is currently being treated for stage 4 colon cancer – and her “healthy young person between jobs” health insurance does not cover many of her expenses. Read Bridget’s blog for more information.
Learn about David Lubar.
What do you love most about your creative life? Why?
I love solving problems. And, really, that’s the main job of a fiction writer. We solve our characters’ problems.
We have the added pleasure of giving them the problems in the first place.
What is the one craft book that you refer to again and again?
The Eyeball Collector by F.E. Higgins (Feiwel & Friends 2009): a recommendation by Greg Leitich Smith from GregLSBlog.
Seven Characteristics You Need to Get Published by Carolyn Kaufman from QueryTracker.net. Peek: “The first thing every real writer needs is a willingness to learn and grow. All agents or editors—no matter how busy—are interested in quality work.”
Learn more about Susan Patron and her latest book, Lucky Breaks, illustrated by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/ginee seo, 2009).
How do you psyche yourself up to write and to keep writing?
When I was eight, I had to keep my little sister captive in the bathtub every night until she got clean.
Cyndi Hughes is the executive director of the Writers’ League of Texas.
She was the proprietor of Cynthia Hughes Literary Management, a literary publicity and consulting firm based in Austin.
Before founding CHLM, she was the founding director of the Texas Book Festival from 1996 to 2003.
Claim to fame: She’s the only person in the world who coordinated two state book festivals with two different governors (George W.
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I’m honored that the cover story for Eternal (Candlewick, 2009) is featured today at Melissa Walker’s blog. Peek: “I couldn’t figure out how the designers would incorporate two similarly laid-out profiles, unless one was on the front and one on the back, but then, how would they pick which would go where?”
The post includes a sneak peek at the Eternal covers coming soon from Walker UK (12/07/09 release date) and Walker Australia and New Zealand (12/01/09 release date).
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Anita Silvey‘s latest book is Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book: Life Lessons from Notable People from All Walks of Life (Roaring Brook, 2009).
So far, what’s the most fun you’ve ever had working on a book? Why?
I know that many authors suffer from the “my newest baby is my favorite baby”
Author Round-up: Writing Around The Holidays by Tina Ferraro from YA Fresh. Peek from Sydney Salter: “I exchange knowing glances with the other café regulars and I buckle down and write as fast as I can for an hour or two while sipping a peppermint mocha.”
Native American Spirituality in Children’s Books by Debby Dahl Edwardson from Through the Tollbooth.
