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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In the winter of 1998, my agent sold a manuscript that would eventually be published as my first book, Jingle Dancer, illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu (Morrow/HarperCollins, 2000).
In September of 1998, I launched a do-it-yourself, official author Website (www.cynthialeitichsmith) and monthly e-newsletter.
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Enter to win one of four ARCs of Dead is the New Black by Marlene Perez (Harcourt, 2008)(author interview)! From the promotional copy:
“Fashion statement…or something freakier?
“The first installment of this creepy, campy paperback original series introduces the psychic Giordano sisters—and their very strange hometown,
Dead Is the New Black by Marlene Perez (Harcourt, 2008). From the promotional copy:
Fashion statement…or something freakier?
“The first installment of this creepy, campy paperback original series introduces the psychic Giordano sisters—and their very strange hometown, Nightshade, California.
“Teenage girls are being mysteriously attacked all over town,
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Suzanne Selfors on Suzanne Selfors: “I grew up on Bainbridge Island, which is a thirty minute ferry ride from Seattle. Really, it’s an ideal place to grow up because we had the beach, the woods, and a safe place to run wild.
“My dad taught history in middle school and fished in Alaska during the summer.
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Austin area author April Lurie (above) held a signing in celebration of her new release, The Latent Powers of Dylan Fontaine (Delacorte, 2008) at the Barnes & Noble Round Rock (Texas) last Saturday.
Local authors in attendance included Greg Leitich Smith and P. J. Hoover…
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Arte y Pico Award: Recognizing Blogs That Inspire Others
Children’s author Anastasia Suen at Picture Book of the Day has chosen Cynsations for an Arte y pico Award!
Q. What is Arte y pico?
A dollmaker in Uruguay created this award to recognize blogs that inspire others.
Enter to win one of three ARCs of The Devouring: Sorry Night by Simon Holt (Little Brown, Sept. 2008). From the promotional copy:
“When dark creeps in and eats the light,
“Bury yours fears on Sorry Night.
“For in the winter’s blackest hours,
“Comes the feasting of the Vours.
Elizabeth Scott on Elizabeth Scott: “I grew up in a very rural area of Southern Virginia. My parents were both high school teachers, and yes, I had them both as teachers when I was in high school. And no, it wasn’t traumatic–I knew I was going to have them as teachers from the time I was very young,
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