Reminder: enter to win one of four autographed advanced reader copies of Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Candlewick, Feb. 10, 2009)!
There are two ways to enter…
(a) email me (scroll and click envelope) with your name and snail/street mail address;
Enter to win one of four autographed advanced reader copies of Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Candlewick, Feb. 10, 2009)!
At last, Miranda is the life of the party: all she had to do was die. Elevated and adopted by none other than the reigning King of the Mantle of Dracul, Miranda goes from high-school theater wannabe to glamorous royal fiend overnight.
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You last visited Cynsations in June 2007! What’s new in your writing life since?
Well, I started teaching Writing for Children at Champlain College, and I love it. The students are all writing majors this semester. They’re smart, motivated, and so interesting.
And I think I’m doing my job reasonably well–by mid-terms they have gone from thinking that writing picture books might not be very hard to thinking it’s one of the hardest forms there is!
Today it’s my pleasure to share with you a new article and video interview from the Austin American-Statesman featuring one of my writer heroes, Betty X. Davis. Those of you who follow the blog regularly may remember that she was one of the participants in last summer’s Awesome Austin Writers’ Workshop.
At 93, aspiring writer awaits her big break by Ricardo Gándara from the American-Statesman.
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Learn more about Sarah Mlynowski.
What were you like as a young reader?
I read everything I could get my hands on. I was particularly obsessed with Judy Blume, Gordon Korman, Christopher Pike and Lois Duncan.
Why do you write for young adults today?
Welcome back to Cynsations!
My winter hiatus has concluded, and it’s a great day for children’s-YA literature!
Congratulations also to all of the newly announced ALA winners and honorees!
I’ll leave the details and dissections to those fine folks who aren’t digging out of an email avalanche from spending much of this month teaching and go with the big picture.
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Cynsations will be on hiatus from hereafter until sometime after Jan. 23 while I attend the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults winter 2009 residency.
I look forward to teaching with fellow faculty members Marion Dane Bauer, Margaret Bechard,
Congratulations to Author Jama Rattigan on 15 Years of Dumpling Soup (Little, Brown)! To celebrate Jama is giving away three signed hardcover copies. Peek: “These are original trade editions from my personal stash (currently, only paperback and library editions are still in print.” Enter to win between now and Jan. 31. See more information.
Jon Bard on Jon Bard: “I’m from New York originally, but I’ve been in Colorado since 1993. Out here, that pretty much makes you a native!
“When Laura and I first met, I owned a PR agency in New York, and she was working for the publishing house Farrar, Straus &
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Sarah Davies runs the Greenhouse, a full-service literary agency exclusively for authors of fiction (though not picture books) for children and young adults. Greenhouse launched in January 2008 and has already developed and sold a number of debut authors.
With offices in Virginia (just outside Washington D.C.) and London, the agency represents both American and British authors and sells direct to both markets.
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