Judy O’Malley is an editor with 35 years of experience in educational and professional books and magazines, as well as trade books and magazines for children.
She was the editor of Book Links: Connecting Books, Libraries, and Classrooms, a publication of the American Library Association, and launched and edited ASK: Arts and Sciences for Kids,
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Join debut author Kimberly Pauley from now to Sept. 10 at the The Official Sucks to Be Me Book Launch Par-tay!
Every day, Kimberly will feature a different author and associated giveaway. Return each day to enter for the new giveaway giveaway (“and to learn about some of the coolest authors around!”).
Jill Santopolo is the author of The Nina, The Pinta, and The Vanishing Treasure (Book One: Alec Flint: Super Sleuth)(Orchard, 2008), an editor at Laura Geringer/HarperCollins, and a graduate of the Vermont College MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She makes her home in New York City.
We last spoke in December 2005! Over the past few years, I’m hearing more and more exciting things about Blooming Tree Press (blog). What’s new?
We have a lot of exciting things going on! First of all, we have added a couple of new imprints to our house.
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Greg and I took a few days off this weekend–Thursday through Sunday morning–and made our way toward the Texas Gulf Coast.
We stayed at the Hotel ZaZa in the Houston Museum District. It’s seriously swanky, or, as the website says, “This decadent urban resort is a mix of glamour and warmth, of high style and creature comforts.
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Helen Hemphill spoke on plot to a standing-room-only crowd of more than 70 writers at last weekend’s Austin SCBWI meeting, and she is highly recommended as a thoughtful, nurturing, funny, effective, and brilliant speaker. I’ve been to my share of workshops, and this one was a standout.
She also will be teaching a Highlights Foundation workshop on “Plotting the Novel”
Immortal: Love Stories with Bite, edited by P. C. Cast (BenBella, 2008) is now available at Borders and Waldenbooks! Note: when I picked up mine last weekend, the book wasn’t in the system yet, but it was in the store.
This vampire-themed YA anthology includes short stories by P. C.
“Kelley Armstrong has been telling stories since before she could write. Her earliest written efforts were disastrous.
“If asked for a story about girls and dolls, hers would invariably feature undead girls and evil dolls, much to her teachers’ dismay. All efforts to make her produce ‘normal’ stories failed.
“Today, she continues to spin tales of ghosts and demons and werewolves,
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Katie Davis on Katie Davis: “I was writing and illustrating lots of really bad picture books and novels for children for a lonnnnng time, until I got a clue and learned how to do it better. Now I’ve gotten eight books published by Harcourt, Inc. and Greenwillow, combined.
“I’ve done freelance projects,
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The 21rst Annual Edition of the Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Market edited by Alice Pope (Writer’s Digest, 2009) is now available.
The 2009 edition includes more than “700 listings for book publishers, magazines, agents, art reps, and more” as well as “exclusive interviews with award winning authors and publishing professionals.”
If you’re a beginner,
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