Carrie Jones on Carrie Jones: “I am a Vermont College MFA graduate. I used to be in a song-and-dance company with comic/actress Sarah Silverman and Bridget Walsh, one of the first touring leads in ‘Annie’! We sang songs from ‘Fame!’ This is terribly embarrassing.
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Congratulations to Arthur Slade on the upcoming release of Villainology: Fabulous Lives of the Big, the Bad, and the Wicked, illustrated by Derek Mah (Tundra, 2007). Listen to an audio author interview by the Headless Horseman. Note: it’s not working on my computer, but perhaps you will have better luck. Read a Cynsations interview with Arthur on Monsterology.
Marla Frazee is a children’s book author-illustrator. She teaches children’s book illustration at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and works in a small studio cabin in the backyard under an avocado tree.
Could you please describe your path to publication, any bumps or stumbles along the way?
My path to publication?
I had the pleasure of speaking at “Wrangling with Writing,” a conference sponsored by the Society of Southwestern Authors Sept. 15 to Sept. 16 in Tucson. I would like to thank the SSA officers and planning committee. Special thanks to Jennifer J. Stewart, author of “seriously funny books for children,” for her hospitality and efforts.
Roger Sutton on Roger Sutton: “I’ve been working with children’s books for about twenty-five years, beginning in 1980 as Zena Sutherland‘s assistant at the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. After getting my M.A. in library science from the University of Chicago, I worked in a variety of public library youth services positions and began book reviewing and writing about children’s literature and librarianship for a number of journals.
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AUSTIN, Texas — The 24th annual Austin Jewish Book Fair (JBF), presented by the Jewish Community Association of Austin (JCAA), will be held from Nov. 3 to Nov. 11 with a special preview event on Oct. 12. Venues include the Dell Jewish Community Campus, Barnes & Noble at Westlake, and at the Texas Capitol.
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Kathleen Duey on Kathleen Duey: “I don’t like writing bios; it’s is a self-conscious thing. I have always done it in third person. Everyone does, because that makes it easier to list your stuff and paint a small self-portrait. But it is also weird.
“This morning has so far contained puppy poo,
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Author Stacy DeKeyser debuts her official website. Stacy’s upcoming YA release is Jump The Cracks (Flux, 2008).
Check out up-and-coming articles at Multicultural Review.
Congratulations to Three Silly Chicks on their 1rst blogoversary! Check out their latest contest; winner announced Sept. 14.
Current nominees for the 19th Annual Lambda Literary Awards.
Kerry Madden is the author the Smoky Mountain trilogy from Viking Children’s Books including: Gentle’s Holler (Viking, 2005), Louisiana’s Song (Viking, 2007), and the upcoming, Jessie’s Mountain. She is also the author of Writing Smarts from American Girl Library (2002). Her first novel, Offsides (Morrow, 1996), about growing up on the gridiron of college football was a New York Public Library Selection for the Teen Age in 1997.
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Could you tell us about your path to publication? Any sprints or stumbles along the way?
I started out writing books for adults, and published my first in the UK a year before Cirque Du Freak (February 1999). I’d been writing a lot since I was 16, 17, but started writing full-time when I was 23.
