The Great Pumpkin Contest Revealed: Lee “L.A.” Verday is sponsoring a contest at MySpace.
The grand prize is an autographed paperback copy of Tantalize with a Tantalize bookmark.
Additional prizes include a copy of The Elite by Jennifer Banash (Berkley Trade, 2008); two copies of two copies of Chris Grimly’s illustrated book inspired by Washington Irving‘s tale,
Enter to win one of three autographed copies of The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by David Small (Atheneum, 2008)(excerpt). From the promotional copy:
“There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.
We last spoke in May 2007, shortly after the release of My Father’s House (Viking, 2008). Congratulations on the release of your debut novel, The Underneath (Atheneum, 2008)! Could you tell us a little about the story?
It’s actually two stories that come together at the end, the first being the story of a kitten who has been charged with keeping an enormous promise.
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The first annual Hill Country Book Festival was Oct. 11 at the Georgetown Public Library in Georgetown, Texas. Participating authors/illustrators included Liz Garton Scanlon, Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith, Don Tate, P. J. Hoover, and Deborah Frontiera.
The finalists for the National Book Award in Young Peoples Literature are:
Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Chains (Simon & Schuster);
Kathi Appelt, The Underneath (Atheneum);
Judy Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied (Scholastic);
In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of www.cynthialeitichsmith.com, I asked some first-time authors the following question:
As a debut author, what are the most important lessons you’ve learned about your craft, the writing life, and/or publishing, and why?
Here’s the latest reply, this one from author Sarah Prineas:
My book came out on June 3rd,
Visit Bella’s Book Club: a real book club at the Allen County Public Library, Tecumseh Branch, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
You can check out and comment on their post on Tantalize (Candlewick, 2007, 2008)(Listening Library, 2008)! Peek: “The book is cleverly written, and sectioned into portions like a restaurant menu.
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Maggie Stiefvater on Maggie Stiefvater: “I’m a 26-year old with a serious Peter Pan complex, an addiction to sweet tea and cookie dough, and an obsessive love of music. When I’m not hanging out with my tolerant husband and two toddlers, I’m either writing, reading, rocking out on some sort of musical instrument,
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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 latest reply, this one from author Carolyn Crimi:
Before I was published I imagined that the life of an author would involve,
The YA Authors Cafe celebrates Teen Read Week with the following authors, discussing their “Books with Bite” and more!
Surf by the Cafe every day this week to learn more about the books, the authors, and to join in on the discussion!
Monday, Oct. 13- Kimberly Pauley,
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