Brian Farrey on Brian Farrey: “I am the new acquiring editor for Flux, the young adult imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide. I previously spent three years as senior publicist at Llewellyn Worldwide, where I helped launch the promotional efforts for Flux.” See also The Flux Blog.
What kind of young reader were you?
Saundra Mitchell on Saundra Mitchell: “I’ve been a phone psychic, a car salesperson, a denture-deliverer and a layout waxer. Now that I’m an author and screenwriter, I’m happy that I’ve finally found my calling.”
What were you like as a young reader?
Voracious. Cereal boxes, newspapers, toothpaste tubes, comics,
Continue Reading Author Interview: Saundra Mitchell on Shadowed Summer »
Alumnus Offers “Color” Commentary on Writing for Kids from Shelflife@Texas. An interview with author Chris Barton. Peek: “I had seen Bob Switzer’s obituary in The New York Times in 1997, and the story of how he and his brother had invented daylight fluorescent colors had these unlikely elements – a magic act and a terrible accident involving ketchup bottles – that made it unforgettable.”
Sharon Darrow has taught writing at Waubonsee Community College, College of DuPage, and Columbia College of Chicago. She writes poetry, short stories, creative nonfiction, picture books, and novels. She is the faculty chair of the MFA program in Writing for Children & Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith by Liviania from In Bed With Books. Peek: “In fantasy, you have to succeed at everything you would in realistic fiction, plus make the fantasy elements hold together logically and earn their place in terms of character, plot, and theme. Beyond that, you can in some ways go more dramatic with your theme because the metaphor dilutes the risk of it being too on the nose.”
Continue Reading Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith from In Bed With Books, Eternal Giveaway »
Jessica Lee Anderson on Jessica Lee Anderson: “I call Texas home although I was born in Arizona and lived in Hawaii for several years. I won a hula competition when I was six, but the most hip shaking I do these days is by playing the hula hoop game on the Nintendo Wii Fit.
Continue Reading Author Interview: Jessica Lee Anderson on Trudy »
Enter to win a paperback copy of Never Trust a Dead Man by Vivian Vande Velde (Magic Carpet Books/Harcourt, 2008)(originally published in 1999). From the promotional copy:
“When Selwyn is accused of murdering his rival, Farold, he is sealed in the village burial cave with Farold’s moldering corpse to await starvation or worse.
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Announces the Winners and Honorees of the 2009 Golden Kite Awards
The Golden Kite Award is the only award presented to children’s book authors and artists by their peers.
Golden Kite Award Winners
Fiction: Down Sand Mountain
by Steve Watkins
Candlewick Press
Nonfiction: A Life in the Wild: George Schaller’s Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts
by Pamela S.
Kent Brown on Kent Brown: “I got to Highlights quite by accident, and initially I found it hard to sit at a desk. Some of my career ideas were agriculture journalist, teacher, farmer. I have found considerable satisfaction in the things I’ve done in the Highlights organization for the past 38 years. Some years ago I admitted to myself that I was not going to be a writer,
Janet Fox on Janet Fox: “I’ve been writing all my life, at least as much of it as I remember. My first poem was published when I was in third grade!
“I’ve written for adults–fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, published in small journals.
“But there have been digressions in my life: I went to graduate school,
Continue Reading Author Interview: Janet Fox on Get Organized Without Losing It »
