Brian James on Brian James: “I was born in Virginia on January 7, 1976. I never really knew my real father, he and my mother split up when I was one year old.
“My mom was only 19 when I was born, and she raised me and my older brother by herself for the first few years of my life.
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Kersten Hamilton on Kersten Hamilton: “I was born in a trailer in High Rolls, New Mexico, in 1958. My parents, who were not very practical people, neglected to go to the hospital or inform anyone of my arrival, so some Official Document Confusion existed for a long time as to the exact year and date.
The Brown Bookshelf forum at MySpace is featuring a chat today, beginning at 10 a.m. EST, with Jennifer Carlson, a principal agent with Dunow, Carlson, Lerner Literary Agency.
Peek: “Jennifer Carlson has been agenting for ten years. Previously, she worked at Henry Dunow Literary Agency and Harold Ober Associates.
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Thank you to Shayne Leighton for her wonderful efforts designing this trailer for my debut tween novel, Rain Is Not My Indian Name (HarperCollins, 2001)(excerpt)(reading group guide)!
Music from Beatsuite.com Music Library, and images from Fotosearch: Stock Photography and Stock Footage,
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From the foundation site: “Deborah Pope has served as Executive Director of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation since 1999 and has been a member of the Board of Directors since 1983.”
Who was Ezra Jack Keats?
Born Jacob Ezra Katz to poor Polish Jewish immigrants in 1916,
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Immortal: Love Stories with Bite, edited by P. C. Cast (BenBella, 2008) will be available exclusively at Borders as of this August.
This vampire-themed YA anthology will include short stories by P. C. Cast, L. J. Smith, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Kristin Cast,
Enter to win a copy of The Juliet Club by Suzanne Harper (Greenwillow, 2008), email me (scroll for email address) with your name, snail/street mail address, and favorite Shakespeare quote by midnight CST June 16! Please also type “The Juliet Club” in the subject line.
Read a Cynsations interview with Suzanne.
Suzanne Harper on Suzanne Harper:
“Suzanne Harper spent most of her career as a magazine editor, but for the last three years she’s been a full-time author. Her first novel, The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney, was published by Greenwillow in July 2007. Her second novel, The Juliet Club (Greenwillow),
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Betty X. Davis spoke on “The Remarkable Rewards of Writing” at the Austin SCBWI monthly meeting last Saturday. Betty’s stories are hers to tell, but for a taste, she began writing in the early 1920s (at age five). She grew up in a Quaker family, holds a master’s degree, was married to a law professor who also was in the FBI,
Franny Billingsley on Franny Billingsley: “Franny was successfully rehabilitated from the practice of law 25 years ago and has never once relapsed. In the intervening couple of decades, she’s published two fantasy novels for upper-elementary and junior-high readers, Well Wished Wished (Atheneum, 1997) and The Folk Keeper (Atheneum, 1999).
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