David Macinnis Gill is the author of the debut novel, Soul Enchilada (Greenwillow). His stories have appeared in several magazines, and his critical biography, Graham Salisbury: Island Boy, was published by Scarecrow Press (2005). He holds a bachelor’s degree in English/creative writing and a doctorate in education, both from the University of Tennessee.
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Enter to Win an Eternal T-shirt this month at TeensReadToo.com! Check out the available styles. Read a Cynsations interview with logo designer Gene Brenek. See the five-star review of Eternal from TeensReadToo. Peek: “This novel is definitely a page-turner. It is filled with danger, deception, humor, love, sadness,
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Movie Trailer for “Where The Wild Things Are” (Oct. 16, 2009).
Encouragement from friends on my path to publication by Don Tate from Crowe’s Nest. Peek: “So what’s a guy like me doing with a literary agent like Sara? Well, hard work of course. But especially because of the encouragement, advice, and general goodwill I received from friends in the children’s literature community — and especially Austin SCBWI.”
Catherine Gilbert Murdock graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1988 and went on to earn a doctorate from Penn.
Her first novel, Dairy Queen (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), won the Borders Original Voices Award, the Midwest Booksellers Award, the Great Lakes Booksellers Award, numerous Readers’ Choice awards, and is currently in production for a television series.
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You last visited Cynsations in September 2006! What is new in your writing life since then?
Ah, yes! 2006. I was still adjusting to suddenly having time to write. Now I get up and start reading and writing.
I’ve finished One Crazy Summer (HarperCollins, 2010), a middle grade novel set in 1968,
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For those collaborating on group blogs, perhaps consider including a byline that links to your official site/individual blog at the top of the post and a brief credit line, again with a link, at the bottom.
For example: Cynthia Leitich Smith is the author of several books and short stories for young readers. Her latest release is Eternal (Candlewick,
J.T. Dutton is the first-time author of Freaked (Harper, 2009). From the promotional copy:
At a grateful dead concert you need: Acid: two windowpanes taped to chest
Checked Tape deck for recording shows
Checked Wad of cash
Checked PB&J sandwiches for the munchies
Missing Tickets to the show
Missing .45 handgun
What?
New York, New York, March 24, 2009– Firebrand Literary has expanded its agent team with the addition of Danielle Chiotti, formerly a senior editor at Kensington, and Stacia Decker, formerly an editor at Harcourt.
Chiotti and Decker will be responsible for expanding the Firebrand list into the nonfiction and adult fiction book markets. Authors interested in representation should check the Firebrand website for details on how to submit.
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Last call: enter to win an autographed hardcover of National Book Award Finalist Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt (Front Street, 2006) from Cynsations. To enter, email me (scroll and click envelope) with your name and snail/street mail address and type “Keturah and Lord Death” in the subject line. Deadline: March 30!
Rebecca Kai Dotlich on Rebecca Kai Dotlich: “I grew up the middle child of three, in a family of five, in a close-knit neighborhood in Indianapolis, Indiana. My brother was two years older, my sister five years younger. My father was a banker, my mother a stay-at-home mom.
“Our days were spent riding bikes on trails down by the creek,
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