Husband and Wife Writing Team Suggests Santa Alive and Well in 21st Century: An Exclusive Authorlink Interview with Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith, authors of Santa Knows, illustrated by Steve Björkman (Dutton, 2006), by Susan VanHecke from Authorlink, October 2006.
Also, Publishers Weekly cheers our language as “boisterous,”
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My husband, author Greg Leitich Smith, and I spoke last night at a monthly meeting of SCBWI-Houston. We also did a reading of our new picture book, Santa Knows (Dutton, 2006).
We’d like to thank the Houston chapter for its hospitality. Luminaries in the audience included Varsha Bajaj (author interview),
Jennifer Ziegler on Jennifer Ziegler: “Who is Jennifer Ziegler? No one knows for sure. I go by many names. Most people refer to me as ‘Jenn’ or ‘Jenny.’ My father sometimes still calls me ‘Poo’–his nickname for me when I was a little girl. I’ve even written a few books under other secret names.
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Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3: A Read-Aloud Guide by Judy Freeman (Libraries Unlimited, 2006). From the promo copy: “The largest and most comprehensive book of its kind ever written, it’s an indispensable treasure trove of 1,700 child-tested favorite read-aloud titles, published since 1995. This is the definitive source for the best recent picture books,
According to SmarterStats, traffic to my official author website should run just over 60,000 unique visitors this month.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays have been the busiest. Midnight to 3 a.m. is the most popular time to stop by (hello, night owls!), followed by 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.–it sort of moves in waves.
From Houghton Mifflin: On a cold winter day a cat appears on the porch of an old Victorian house. The girl who lives there feels sorry for the snow-covered creature and gives him warm milk. The next day she gives him tuna, and the next day a catnip mouse, and so on and so on, until eventually the porch is as cozy as the house.
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Cinda Williams Chima on Cinda Williams Chima: “I come from a long line of fortune-tellers, n’er-do-well musicians, indifferent housekeepers and spinners of tales. When I researched my family tree, my ancestors kept showing up in court for bar fights, paternity suits, making moonshine, and so on. My great-grandmother was booted out of church for having a ‘disorderly walk.’
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Melissa R. Schorr on Melissa R. Schorr: “I was born and raised in New York City, and still consider myself a New Yorker at heart, but it’s become more of a love-hate relationship–I love that I get to live everywhere else while my editors live there. I studied journalism at Northwestern University outside Chicago,
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Karen Halvorsen Schreck is the author of a young adult novel, Dream Journal (Hyperion, 2006) and an award-winning children’s book, Lucy’s Family Tree, illustrated by Stephen Gassler (Tilbury House, 2000). Her short stories have appeared in various literary journals and have received a number of awards, including a Pushcart Prize and an Illinois State Arts Council Grant.
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Nancy Feresten has been editing children’s books for almost over 20 years. After earning a degree in English Literature from Yale, she began her career at Harper & Row Junior Books Group and has since worked at W. H. Freeman, Scholastic, and National Geographic, where she is now Vice President, Editor-in-Chief of National Geographic Children’s Books,
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