Reminder: 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!
You last visited Cynsations in December 2007 to discuss the release of Project 17 (Hyperion, 2007). Do you have any more recent news to share on that novel or your other books?
Project 17 will be coming out in paperback in June. For its release, I’ll be launching a very exciting contest (more details will be available this spring).
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Enter to win an autographed hardcover of National Book Award Finalist Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt (Front Street, 2006) from Cynsations. From the promotional copy:
“Keturah follows a legendary hart into the king’s forest, where she becomes hopelessly lost. Her strength diminishes until, finally, she realizes that death is near.
Founder and Principal of JKSCommunications, Julie Schoerke promotes publishers, authors and books from across the country. She started the company in 2001 as a general public relations company.
Schoerke has built the literary publicity company by being sensitive to the divergent needs of the publishers, the authors, the agents and the media.
Continue Reading Publicist Interview: Julie Schoerke of JKSCommunications »
Learn more about Heather Henson.
What first inspired you to write for young readers?
For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to be a writer, but I hadn’t really thought about writing children’s books until after I graduated from college. I began temping to make ends meet in New York City,
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Congratulations to Rosemary Clement-Moore on the release of Highway to Hell (Maggie Quinn: Girl vs. Evil)(Delacorte, 2009)! From the promotional copy: “Maggie Quinn was expecting to find plenty of trouble with Lisa over Spring Break. Give a girl a bikini, a beachfront hotel, and an absent boyfriend, and it’s as good as a road map to the dark side.
A.S. King on A.S. King: “A.S. King was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. After earning a degree in photography and working in a few stinky darkrooms, she moved to Dublin, Ireland; where she swore off television and started writing novels.
“Two years later, she moved to a small farm in rural Tipperary.
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We last spoke in 2006. What is new in your writing life since then?
I’m happy to say I had two new books published in 2008. Shifty (Tricycle, 2008) is a young adult novel, and Cinder Rabbit (Holt, 2008) is a young chapter book. I wrote an article published in the 2009 CWIM (Children’s Writers &
Continue Reading Author Interview: Lynn E. Hazen on Shifty »
Emma J. Virjan on Emma J. Virjan: “I was born in San Antonio, Texas, under an Aries moon on a Wednesday evening, my Dad’s bowling night. This might explain my attraction to shiny, hardwood floors and crunchy, snack bar french fries.
“In first grade, I became permanently right-handed because Sr. Bridget refused to have left-handers in her class.
Continue Reading Author-Illustrator Interview: Emma J. Virjan on Nacho the Party Puppy »
Margarita Engle’s Historic Newbery Honor by Debra Lau Whelan from School Library Journal. Peek: “Margarita Engle’s The Surrender Tree (Holt, 2008), a verse novel about Cuba’s fight for independence, just received a Newbery honor, marking the first time that a Hispanic author has ever received such a distinction.”
The finalists for the Oklahoma Book Award are: Chosen by P.C.
