Learn more about Jo Knowles, and visit her LJ.
What do you love most about your creative life? Why?
Growing up as a very quiet, shy kid I felt overlooked an awful lot. I never really felt like I had much of a voice. Of course, I wouldn’t have worded it that way,
Kathryn Fitzmaurice is the first-time author of The Year the Swallows Came Early (HarperCollins, 2009). From the promotional copy:
Eleanor “Groovy” Robinson loves cooking and plans to go to culinary school just as soon as she’s old enough.
But even Groovy’s thoughtfully—planned menus won’t fix the things that start to go wrong the year she turns eleven—suddenly,
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“Teens will vote online from Aug. 24 through Sept. 18 at www.ala.org/teenstopten for their favorite books.
“The winners of the 2009 Teens’ Top Ten will be announced in a webcast featuring WWE Superstars and Divas during Teen Read Week, Oct. 18-24.
“Tell your book group, youth organizations you work with,
Learn more about author Jennifer L. Holm and author-illustrator Matthew Holm.
Then visit Jennifer & Matthew Holm (brother-and-sister troublemakers) along with the one and only Babymouse!
Could you describe the best experience you’ve had working with an editor?
The best experience we’ve had has been working with our Random House publishing crew (we think of them as our “dream team”) – “Super Editor”
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Learn about Brian Yansky. Read Brian’s Blog: Writer Talk: Random thoughts on the art and craft of fiction writing.
How do you psyche yourself up to keep writing?
I think one way I psyche myself up is by making writing a habit. Like most habits, it’s helpful if you do it at about the same time and place every day.
In celebration of The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z by Kate Messner (Walker, Sept. 1, 2009), children’s-YA book folks in the video below answer the question: If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?
“The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z is a middle grade novel about a Vermont girl struggling to complete a monster school leaf collection project amid the usual middle school angst and some unusual family chaos.
Daniel Kraus is the first-time author of The Monster Variations (Delacorte, 2009). From the promotional copy:
Someone is killing boys in a small town. The murder weapon is a truck, and the only protection is a curfew enacted to keep kids off the streets.
But it’s summer—and that alone is worth the risk of staying out late for James,
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Wendy Mass on Wendy Mass: “According to Wikipedia, I play the harp, have eight kids (four sets of twins), have written 23 books in 23 years, and can run a two minute mile. So I guess we’ll leave it at that.” Note: actual wiki.
What were you like as a young reader?
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Learn about Jane Yolen. Note: see more information about Take Joy: A Writer’s Guide to Loving the Craft (Writer’s Digest, 2006).
What do you love most about your creative life? Why?
My short answer is that I get to work in my jammies. But that’s a devious and charming lie.
Suzanne Morgan Williams on Suzanne Morgan Williams:
“I’m the author of ten nonfiction books for kids aged ten to fourteen. My first novel, Bull Rider (McElderry, 2009), is for the same age group.
“Bull Rider is a Junior Library Guild Selection for 2009 and was chosen to represent Nevada in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival in Washington D.C.
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