Due to a technical glitch, Cynsations LJ syndication subscribers are encouraged to read the interview with author Anna Olswanger on Shlemeil Crooks (Junebug, 2005) via the original Blogger post. Thank you, and my apologies for the inconvenience.
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Anna Olswanger wears a number of hats in the book world. In addition to being a literary agent with Liza Dawson Associates in Manhattan, she is the author of Shlemiel Crooks, illustrated by Paula Goodman Koz (Junebug, 2005), a 2006 Sydney Taylor Honor Book and a 2005-2006 Koret International Jewish Book Award Finalist,
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Kathy Duval on Kathy Duval: “When I was a kid, I wanted to be an archaeologist. I read books like Swiss Family Robinson and Treasure Island and dreamed of exploring far away places. I ended up being an art teacher and art therapist, exploring inner worlds instead of outer. For ten years, I satisfied my itch for the exotic yearly by being a weekend gypsy at the Texas Renaissance Festival as a musician in a balalaika orchestra.
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The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship of $5,000 is offered annually to an author of children’s or young-adult fiction. The Fellowship has been developed to help writers whose work is of high literary caliber but who have not yet attracted a broad readership. As a result, an author’s books may not have achieved the sales that would allow the writer to support him or herself solely from writing.
Could you give us a brief history of KatzConnects? Who are the players?
My name is Susan B. Katz. I am a National Board Certified Teacher with over 14 years experience as an elementary educator and bilingual consultant. I am also the founder of KatzConnects. We bring prominent children’s authors, illustrators and musicians into schools,
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Santa Knows Interview! by Debbi Michiko Florence at One Writer’s Journey. Greg Leitich Smith and I discuss the story behind the story.
Through the Looking Glass calls Santa Knows (Dutton, 2006): “A funny story with expressive and lively illustrations makes this a perfect just-before-Christmas title.” Read the whole review.
Cynthia Cotten on Cynthia Cotten: “I was born and raised in the small city of Lockport, New York, on the banks of the Erie Canal. My dad was a high school art teacher and a painter. My mother started out as a stay-home mom, but over the years, her love of needlework led her to open a shop and become a teacher,
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John Green on John Green: “To quote Holden: ‘If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap,
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Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith are the Austin area Barnes & Noble December authors of the month for Santa Knows (Dutton, 2006)!
Note: our last official signings for 2006 will be from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Dec. 2 Barnes & Noble Round Rock in Round Rock, Texas (I-35 and 1325) and 1 to 3 p.m.
Andrew Karre on Andrew Karre: “I am the acquiring editor for Llewellyn’s Flux imprint. If you submit to Flux, you’re submitting to me. I live in Saint Paul, MN.”
What kind of young reader were you?
I was an avid reader when I was young, but when I was a YA I didn’t read much of the contemporary YA.
