Sparkling local writers joined forces at the Awesome Austin Writers Workshop from June 27 to June 29 at my home.
The objectives were to build and nurture an already strong youth literature writing community (we rock!), to exchange ideas (we shared!), to support one another (we cheered!), to gain insights into our works in progress (we learned!),
Kelly Herold on Kelly Herold: Kelly Herold is an Associate Professor of Russian at Grinnell College by day, and writes a children’s literature blog (Big A little a) and edits the online children’s literature monthly The Edge of the Forest by night. She is also (with Anne Boles Levy) a co-founder of The Cybils,
Continue Reading Interview: Kelly Herold and Anne Boles Levy on The Cybils »
And Another Awesome Author Visit: Claudia Gray from And Another Book Read. Peek: “I see some of myself in virtually all the characters. I think that’s fairly important, really–to identify with everyone, at least a little bit. (Maybe not Erich, though.)”
By Request: Letting the Reader In, Pulling the Reader In–Part Deux,
Dana Reinhardt on Dana Reinhardt: “I’ve done all sorts of stuff with my life so far. I’ve been a waitress, a social worker, an answerer of telephones on a crisis hot line, a fact checker for a movie magazine, a reader for a now defunct young adult label at a mass-market publishing house,
Continue Reading Author Interview: Dana Reinhardt on Harmless »
New York, New York–Auden Media Corporation, the parent company of Firebrand Literary, is pleased to announce the launch of a new company division, Tinderbox. Tinderbox is a book packager of superior quality, high-concept teen and middle grade fiction.
Tinderbox prides itself on offering more equitable terms to its writers than the traditional book packager,
Everything I Needed To Know About Being a Girl, I Learned from Judy Blume by Jennifer O’Connell (Simon & Schuster, 2007). From the promotional copy: “Whether laughing to tears reading Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great or clamoring for more unmistakable “me too!” moments in Are You There God? It’s Me,
UNION INSTITUTE & UNIVERSITY AND VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS ANNOUNCE SALE OF MONTPELIER CAMPUS & FINE ARTS PROGRAMS
Sale marks the beginning of Vermont College of Fine Arts;
Union Institute & University continues to serve students from the campus
Cincinnati, Ohio and Montpelier, Vt. – June 24, 2008 – Union Institute & University (UI&U) and Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) today announced they have completed the purchase agreement for the historic Vermont College campus and the three Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programs located in Montpelier,
Guess who’s out and about on the Web? I’m honored to announce two new interviews:
(1) Cynthia Leitich Smith: An Interview with an Internet Icon & Legend from Mary Hershey and Robin LaFevers at Shrinking Violet Promotions.
Peek: “I enjoy the blogs as a way of ‘pajama outreach’–you don’t have to put on dry-clean-only clothes and get in the car/plane to do it.
Debbi Michiko Florence on Debbi Michiko Florence: “I was born in San Francisco and raised in Los Angeles. My parents were also born in California. I am a third-generation Japanese-American.
“In college, I majored in zoology and minored in English. I volunteered as a raptor rehabilitator, interned as a zoo keeper’s aide,
Continue Reading Author Interview: Debbi Michiko Florence on China: A Kaleidoscope Kids Book »
Enter to win a signed copy of the Australian edition of Missing Girl by Norma Fox Mazer (Allen & Unwin, 2008)(published in the U.S. by HarperCollins, 2008)!
From the promotional copy: “This is the story of five sisters. Beauty longs for love. Mim holds a secret tightly. Stevie is tempestuous and impulsive.
