Magical! That’s what it was like to return to Michigan with my very cute husband and sometimes co-author Greg Leitich Smith for a few days earlier this month.
Our primary mission was to visit Linda Pavonetti and Jim Cipielewski‘s class, “The Author’s and Illustrator’s Art and Craft,” at Oakland University in Rochester,
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Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith is now available in hardcover for order from Walker Books Australia and New Zealand! See the publisher listing. It looks like the paperback edition will be available from the company in 2009.
To celebrate, I’m going to give away a signed hardback copy to one Cynsational YA reader from Australia or New Zealand!
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Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Candlewick, 2007, 2008)(Listening Library, 2008)(audio sample) goes on sale in paperback in the U.S. July 22!
The end papers of the novel include an excerpt of Eternal (Candlewick, 2008), which is the second book in the universe. Eternal features different main characters. The excerpt is told from the first person POV of the female lead.
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A.M. Jenkins blog: “The reasons for this blog: 1. To provide basic author information (for students, teachers, librarians etc.), without me having to maintain a website. 2. I think out loud a lot as I work through writing projects, so I’m going to try dumping those thoughts here rather than on my friends.” Read a Cynsations interview with A.M.
Author Sue Alexander passed away unexpectedly on July 3.
From her website: “She helped create, sustain and guide the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators for over three decades — her passion and pride has left an indelible mark on what children read to this day, and what she has taught should serve as hope to children in the future.”
Jennifer Bradbury on Jennifer Bradbury: “I grew up and attended college in Kentucky, and worked a few summers at a boy’s camp in North Carolina. I met my husband there and we spent our honeymoon biking across the southern U.S. After that, we moved to Washington State, where I taught high school English for eight years.
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Happy Independence Day to those who celebrate it! Please note that Cynsations will be taking a very short hiatus, and will resume posting next Thursday, July 10!
The Cynsations grand prize giveaways for July are two signed copies of Wake by Lisa McMann (Simon Pulse, 2008). From the promotional copy: “For 17 year-old Janie Hannagan,
Did you see Tuesday’s Cynsations post about the Awesome Austin Writers Workshop?
If not, check it out as well as posts by Greg Leitich Smith, Liz Garton Scanlon, P. J. Hoover, Jo Whittemore, and–these just in–Alison Dellenbaugh,
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Louise Hawes, a North Carolina resident, is the author of two short fiction collections, Anteaters Don’t Dream and Other Stories (University Press of Mississippi, 2007) and Black Pearls: a Faerie Strand (Houghton Mifflin,2008). Her novels include The Vanishing Point (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), Rosey in the Present Tense (Walker,
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David Gifaldi to David Gifaldi: “I grew up in the snow country of Western New York, in a village near Lake Ontario between Buffalo and Rochester. Even though I now live in a big city (Portland, Oregon), I’m happy to return to the small-town pace and country spareness of the old hometown when I visit my family every year.
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