Tabitha Olson at has announced her June book giveaway at Writer Musings: A place to ponder books, as well as how the words get on the page. The featured books are:
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (Hyperion, 2008)
How to Be Bad by E.
The “Everything You Wanted to Know about Young Adult Fiction But Were Too Afraid To Ask” panel discussion will feature the Delacorte Dames and Dudes, five authors of tween-young adult (YA) novels at 1 p.m. June 13 at BookPeople. They are all published by Delacorte Press (Random House), and they all live in Austin!
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Janni Lee Simner Super Giveaway
Enter to win Bones of Faerie (Random House, 2009) and autographed copies of both Secret of the Three Treasures (Holiday House, 2006)(hard copy) and Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales, edited by Deborah Noyes (Candlewick, 2006)(paperback).
Note: Gothic includes Janni’s short story “Stone Tower.”
Janni Lee Simner on Janni Lee Simner: “I was born aboard a pirate ship, but as soon as I came of age booked passage with a caravan bound for the Sahara, and spent the next decade as a seeker of lost cities, hidden tombs, and ancient artifacts before settling down in the Sonoran desert to write…
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Cheryl Renée Herbsman is the author of Breathing (Viking, April 16, 2009). From the promotional copy:
What if the guy who took your breath away was the only one who could help you breathe?
Savannah would be happy to spend the summer in her coastal Carolina town lying in a hammock reading her beloved romance novels and working at the library.
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Tracy Marchini on Tracy Marchini: “I’ve been with Curtis Brown for three years, working with Ginger Knowlton and Laura Blake Peterson. Before joining Curtis Brown, I’d worked as a freelance children’s book reviewer and a local newspaper correspondent.
“In my personal life, I like to write,
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Learn about Brent Hartinger.
What do you love most about your creative life? Why?
Isn’t it funny how our lives make so much sense in retrospect?
As a kid, I hated being told what to do. Whether it was my teachers or my parents, I was generally of the opinion that I knew far better than they did what was best for me (and you know what?
Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith is now available in hardcover from Walker Books Australia and New Zealand (June 2009). See more information. See also the reader’s guide.
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Find out more about Beach Lane Books, a new Simon & Schuster imprint, launching in this video interview with publisher Allyn Johnston, author-illustrator Marla Frazee, author-illustrator Debra Frasier, and S&S executive art director Ann Bobco. Source: Liz Garton Scanlon at Liz in Ink.
Taking a Chance on a Young Agent from Nathan Bransford –
Lesley Livingston on Lesley Livingston: “I am a writer and actor living in Toronto, Canada. I hold a master’s degree in English, with a specialization in Arthurian literature and Shakespeare from the University of Toronto.
“As a principal performer and founding member of the Tempest Theatre Group,
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