The Official SCBWI Conference Blog: Alice Pope leads SCBWI’s “Team Blog” for up-to-the minute conference countdowns and live blogging from the conference floor! Note: for those who couldn’t make it to LA and those who want to look back on the experience.
A Wish After Midnight by Zetta Elliott Giveaway from MissAttitude at Reading in Color.
Jenny Moss is the first-time author of Winnie’s War (Walker, 2009). From the promotional copy:
A debut novel set against the backdrop of the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.
Life in Winnie’s sleepy town of Coward Creek, Texas, is just fine for her. Although her troubled mother’s distant behavior has always worried Winnie,
The Austin children’s-YA writing community (and friends) gathered to celebrate Varian Johnson and Jennifer Taylor’s recent graduation from the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program in Writing for Children & Young Adults last Thursday at Waterloo Ice House.
Congratulations to the graduates! Varian’s next novel, Saving Maddie,
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Learn more about author Arthur Slade.
When and where do you write? Why does that time and space work for you?
I write in my office, which is in the basement of my home in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (It’s near Moose Jaw, in case anyone wonders).
Through the window I can see the sun shine or the snow pile up,
Lyn Miller-Lachmann on Lyn Miller-Lachmann: “Since 1994, I have served as Editor-in-Chief of MultiCultural Review, a quarterly journal that publishes articles and reviews on aspects of diversity in the United States and around the world.
“I edited the award-winning multicultural bibliography of children’s and young adult books, Our Family,
Continue Reading Author Interview: Lyn Miller-Lachmann on Gringolandia »
Enter to win both Tsunami! by Kimiko Kajikawa, illustrated by Ed Young (Philomel, 2009) and Hook by Ed Young (Roaring Brook, 2009)! See entry details at end of giveaways listing. Read a previous Cynsations interview with Ed.
From the promotional copy of Tsunami!
Learn about Keith Graves.
What do you love most about your creative life? Why?
I love the freedom to dig into my creative sub-conscious every day and pull out the interesting things I find in there.
Then it’s like a science project where I build this cool thing that I can kind of see,
You last visited Cynsations in August 2008 to discuss Stealing Heaven (HarperCollins, 2008). Do you have any recent news to share on that novel or your other books?
After Stealing Heaven came out, it was named to the Texas Library Association’s reading list and was a 2009 Best Book for Young Adults pick,
From Jo Ann Hernandez
Adriana Domínguez has joined Full Circle Literary as its newest agent, effective immediately. Ms. Domínguez has over ten years of experience in publishing, most recently as Executive Editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books, where she managed the children’s division of the Latino imprint, Rayo.
Prior to her work at HarperCollins,
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You last visited Cynsations in October 2008 to talk about Lament: A Faerie Queen’s Deception (Flux, 2008), which is one of my favorite Gothic fantasies. Could you tell us about your latest release, Shiver?
If I was a novel and my books were chapters, Shiver would be a new chapter for me.
Continue Reading Author Snapshot: Maggie Stiefvater on Shiver »
