A widget celebrating Native American Youth Literature is now available from JacketFlap!
You can see a copy of it and get the code at the JacketFlap Widgets Gallery. Note: the default background is actually a beige color (not white as shown, and so the blue and red are more muted).
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Evelyn Fazio has 28 years of publishing experience and has worked at Simon & Schuster/Prentice-Hall, Random House, Marshall Cavendish, and M.E. Sharpe. A former Vice President of E-Content Acquisitions for Baker & Taylor, she has also been a full-time literary agent and has co-authored seven nonfiction books.
Ms. Fazio became publisher of WestSide Books in 2006,
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In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of www.cynthialeitichsmith.com, I asked some established authors–folks I’d featured early on–the following question:
Over the past decade, what are the most important lessons you’ve learned about your craft, the writing/artistic life, and/or publishing, and why?
YA author Ellen Wittlinger said:
What I’ve learned about writing in the last decade is to give all the ideas and all the energy I have to each book as it comes along.
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Book Blogger Appreciation Week Sept. 15 to Sept. 19 from My Friend Amy. Peek: “Think of it as a retreat for book bloggers and a chance for us to totally nerd out over books together.” Note: not just children’s-YA.
See the Official BBAW Giveaway List and additional BBWA Giveaways from participating bloggers!
In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of www.cynthialeitichsmith.com, I’m offering one rather eclectic giveaway package, which will include paperback copies of the following books:
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (1958);
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (1977);
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause (1997);
Amazing News! In celebration of 10 years of www.cynthialeitichsmith.com, the lovely Angela L. Fox is sponsoring a giveaway at Pickled Pixel Toe.
Enter to win a T-shirt!
Here’s how: go to one of the following categories: The Muses (see design sample); The Inner Critics;
Kimberly Pauley on Kimberly Pauley: “I majored in English at the University of Florida and took as many classes as I could in adolescent fiction and science fiction (it’s awesome to read books for class that you’d read anyway).
“I was working as a programmer/Web development manager when I started up Young Adult Books Central and have been reviewing books since 1998.
Tony Abbott on Tony Abbott: “In brief, I was born in Cleveland, Ohio; and moved with my family to Connecticut when I was eight.
“My father had a Jesuit college education (courtesy of the G.I. Bill, rightly touted as one of the most amazing pieces of legislation in the last century) and wanted to teach,
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In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of www.cynthialeitichsmith.com, I asked some established authors–folks I’d featured early on–the following question:
Over the past decade, what are the most important lessons you’ve learned about your craft, the writing/artistic life, and/or publishing, and why?
Here’s the first reply, this one from author Uma Krishnaswami:
About my craft,
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WestSide Books, a company dedicated to publishing contemporary, realistic young adult fiction, will launch its debut list of seven young adult novels in Spring 2009.
WestSide is a sister company to Everbind Inc., a distributor and pre-binder that has been selling to public schools for thirty years. Each year, Everbind ships nearly two million books into the school market,
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