Daniel Kraus is a Chicago-based writer and filmmaker.
He is the director of six feature films, including “Sheriff” (2006 season premiere of PBS’s Emmy-winning “Independent Lens”) and “Musician” (2007 New York Times Critics’ Pick).
His first novel, The Monster Variations, has just come out from Delacorte.
Learn more about Libba Bray, and read her LJ.
Could you tell us about your writing community—your critique group or critique partner or other sources of creative support?
I’m really grateful for my fellow writers, both local and far-flung. I love that they understand this insane process and so,
Cynthia Jaynes Omololu is the first-time author of When It’s Six O’Clock in San Francisco: A Trip Through Time Zones, illustrated by Randy DuBurke (Clarion, July 20, 2009). From the promotional copy:
As one little boy is eating breakfast in San Francisco, another kid in London is playing football with his mates,
Learn more about Chris Eboch.
Could you tell us about the Haunted series (Aladdin, 2009-)?
The Haunted series asks a question: What would you do if a ghost needed your help? Wait–what if you didn’t even believe in ghosts?
13-year-old Jon narrates the Haunted series. He’s a skeptic, even though his mom and stepdad produce a ghost hunter TV show.
Author Interview: Marissa Doyle from Alyssa at The Shady Glade. Peek: “I’m not so much a regular history buff as a super-sized, over-the-top, fully-fledged history geek. One of the things I loved most about writing historical YA is getting the chance to show teens that history isn’t just dry boring dates and lists of events–it can be vital and fascinating and full of juicy stories.”
Alana Joli Abbott worked as an in-house editor for three years at Thomson Gale (now Gale Cengage) before taking on the life of a freelance writer and editor.
She is the author of two novels, short stories featured at Coyote Wild, and The Edge of Propinquity,
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Eduardo F. Calcines is the first-time author of Leaving Glorytown: One Boy’s Struggle Under Castro (FSG, 2009). From the promotional copy:
Eduardo F. Calcines was a child of Fidel Castro’s Cuba; he was just three years old when Castro came to power in January 1959.
After that, everything changed for his family and his country.
Megan Frazer is the first-time author of Secrets of Truth & Beauty (Hyperion, 2009). From the promotional copy:
When Dara Cohen was little, she was a bright, shiny star. She was the cutest seven-year-old who ever sang Ella Fitzgerald, and it was no wonder she was crowned Little Miss Maine.
That was then.
Continue Reading New Voice: Megan Frazer on Secrets of Truth & Beauty »
San Antonio author Diana López will be speaking and signing her middle grade novel, Confetti Girl (Little, Brown, 2009), at 1 p.m. Sept. 19 at BookPeople in Austin, Texas.
In a recent Cynsations interview, Diana said:
“Confetti Girl is my second book but my debut for the middle grade reader.
Continue Reading Children’s Author Diana López to Visit BookPeople of Austin on Sept. 19 »
Learn about Cecil Castellucci.
Could you describe the best experience you’ve had working with an editor?
I have been really blessed by working with some incredible editors, Shelly Bond, Deborah Wayshak, and David Levithan among them.
But I have a special place in my heart for Kara LaReau with whom I did my first three novels with (Boy Proof (2005),
