My very cute husband, author Greg Leitich Smith, has updated his Web site. Of particular interest is his Q&A on writing. He talks about writing comedy, multiple viewpoint novels, characters, and plot.
Greg is the author of Ninjas, Piranhas, and Galileo (Little Brown, 2003) and Tofu And T.Rex (Little Brown,
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If you’ve been reading my blog these past few days, you’ll know that I’m flagging some titles and authors to watch. Here’s one more.
Check out the cover art of Teach Me by R.A. Nelson (Razorbill/Peguin Putnam, fall 2005), graciously hosted at Lisa Kopelke’s Web site.
The text around the apple reads:
“I don’t want to think about anything that takes me away from thinking about him.
In response to a teen reader post in her guest book, author Alex Flinn has posted a short article, “Does Your School Ban Books In Secret?”
Alex is the author of: Breathing Underwater; Breaking Point; Nothing To Lose; and Fade To Black.
Surf over to author Lynn E. Hazen. Lynn has two new books, one recent and one forthcoming. Mermaid Mary Margaret (Bloomsbury, June 2004) is a middle grade novel, and Buzz Bumble To The Rescue (Bloomsbury, May 2005) is a picture book. Click for a hint of where Mary Margaret might go next!
Lynn completed her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College.
Meet D.L. Garfinkle, author of Storky (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, April 2005): “with its hilarious musings on life, love and other disasters, Storky– the complete journal of Michael ‘Storky’ Pomerantz’s freshman year of high school– is a riotous jouney into the mind of your average teenager. In no time, you’ll be rooting for Michael to lose the nickname and win the girl.”
Surf over to my other blog, spookycyn, to read two story behind the story interviews with Vivian Vande Velde on Companions of the Night and Being Dead.
Ever wonder what everybody else is reading? Check out what’s On My Night Table from Jacqueline Davies. I’m also fond of her On My Mind page,
Rhymes and Misdemeanors by Hope Vestergaard.
Rhyme from Predictable Books, a bibliography from the Monroe County Public Library in Monroe County, Indiana.
See also: How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight by Jane Yolen (as well as her Child of Faerie, Child of Earth); Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash by Sarah Weeks;
Illustrator Don Tate has a new blog–Devas T: rants and raves (“Highs and lows in the life of a children’s book illustrator”). Check out his Coretta Scott King picks on the blog and then surf over to an interview at African-American Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators.
As a fellow Austinite,
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I’m reading a couple of rhyming picture book manuscripts for a beginning writer and pulling resources that may be of use to her. They include:
Rhyming Picture Books: For Those Who Must by Margot Finke from the “Musings” Archive in April 2004. This page offers a number of really on-target links. I especially like:
Have a note here that says Warner Brothers is scouting locations for the feature film “Every Word Is True,” and they’re interested in filming here at the house. Potentially. Am flashing back to every kind of destruction I’ve seen wrought on houses in movies. Therefore, I’m going to have to pass on that although I must admit the plot sounds cool and it would be kind of neat to meet that particular cast of actors.