Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd, edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci (Little, Brown, 2009) is now available!
From the promotional copy:
“Acclaimed authors Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci have united in geekdom to edit short stories from some of the best-selling and most promising geeks in young adult literature: M.T.
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Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists, and Other Matters Odd and Magical, edited by Deborah Noyes (Candlewick, 2009) is now available!
The collection includes my short story, “Cat Calls,” which is set in the Tantalize/Eternal universe and features new characters!
Here’s the whole list of contributors:
Sideshow Giveaway
Enter to win one of three copies from Cynsations!
Cynsations will be on hiatus from now until sometime shortly after July 22 while I teach at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults summer 2009 residency in Montpelier.
I look forward to working with fellow faculty members Kathi Appelt, Marion Dane Bauer,
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From the website: “At Blue Slip Media, we specialize in publicity and marketing services for the trade children’s book industry.
“In a business climate where publicity and marketing resources at major publishing houses are stretched thin, we offer expertise in crafting effective press releases, targeted mailing lists, niche and local market outreach, and event planning to create comprehensive campaigns for print and online media.
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Learn more about Zetta Elliott, and visit her blog. Her books include Bird (Lee & Low, 2008) and A Wish After Midnight (CreateSpace, 2008).
Could you tell us about your writing community—your critique group or critique partner or other sources of creative support?
I don’t belong to a critique group,
The mission of the Austin Public Library Foundation is to support and strengthen Austin’s public libraries.
To accomplish this goal, the Foundation works to increase awareness about the Library and its importance to the community and to raise funds through individual gifts, corporate sponsorships, and foundation grants. These funds are used to provide programs,
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Enter to win one of three copies of Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists, and Other Matters Odd and Magical, edited by Deborah Noyes (Candlewick, July 14, 2009)! From the promotional copy:
Molly is a bearded girl who joins the circus, only to find that her former tormentor faces a far hairier plight.
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Chris Barton on Chris Barton: “Of all the cities where I could have stumbled into the world of children’s literature, I couldn’t have done it in a better place than Austin, Texas.
“A native Texan who gravitated to Austin for college and have been here most of the time ever since,
How do you define artistic success?
In the past, artistic success for me has been work that I am proud of and know that I have done my absolute best with.
But that has been an attitude fraught with dissatisfaction and frustration. There are more times than I like to admit that I look at my past work with twinges of regret.
Ammi-Joan Paquette is known as a bit of a globe-trotter. She spent much of her early years in France, then traveled throughout Europe and to Japan before settling down with her family just outside of Boston.
Her first published picture book is The Tiptoe Guide to Tracking Fairies, illustrated by Christa Unzner (Tanglewood Press,
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