By Cynthia Leitich Smith & Gayleen Rabakukk
Writing Past The White Gaze As A Black Author by L.J. Alonge from NPR Code Switch. Peek: “… I found a video of Toni Morrison talking about the white gaze — the assumption that the reader is white and the resulting self-consciousness in your thinking and writing.
Susanna Reich and Gary Golio, photo by Laura Golio
By Susanna Reich and Gary Golio
From intern Gayleen Rabakukk
The power of music to inspire action is explored in two non-fiction picture books out this month: Stand Up and Sing! Pete Seger, Folk Music and the Path to Justice by Susanna Reich,
N. Griffin is the author of Smashie McPerter and the Mystery of the Missing Goop, illustrated by Kate Hindley (Candlewick, 2016). The cheerful middle grade mystery is the second in a series featuring a diverse pair of clever student detectives.
What do you love most about the creative life/being an author?
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Compiled by Gayleen Rabakukk
Check out these videos from debut author Angie Thomas on The Hate U Give (Balzer + Bray/Harper Collins, 2017). Peek: “I was inspired to write the novel in 2010, right after the Oscar Grant case…I wanted a way to find hope and I wanted to show the human side of all these cases.
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I’ve been musing about what project I will work on next. Of my numerous ideas, which will take me into the challenging and blissful intellectual, emotional, psychological environment that I’ve been in for more than two years with my middle grade novel in verse, now on submission through my agent?
Continue Reading Guest Post: Carol Coven Grannick on “Into the Scary for the Sake of Joy” »
By Cynthia Leitich Smith & Gayleen Rabakukk
Whoosh! Race and all Students from Chris Barton at Bartography. Peek: “I don’t think she expected your book to have a ‘racial element’ and when she got to the line:’where only five years earlier, African American students hadn’t even been allowed,’
Check out the new book trailer for Allegedly (HarperCollins, 2017) by Tiffany D. Jackson. From the promotional copy:
Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myer’s Monster (HarperCollins, 1999) in this gritty, twisty, and haunting debut by Tiffany D.
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I recently returned to live in the Washington D.C. area after a three-year stint living in Durban, South Africa.
Why Durban, you ask? Most people do. That is definitely a story I will be writing one day – so you’ll have to stay tuned for that one.
My first picture book,
Continue Reading Guest Post: Carole Lindstrom on Writing on Two Continents »
When I first read P.J. Hoover‘s Cynsations post that mentioned video games related to Tut: The Story of My Immortal Life (Starscape, 2014), I thought, “She’s an electrical engineer. That’s not something someone like me could actually do.”
Still, it’s a very intriguing idea.
Continue Reading Author Interview: P.J. Hoover on Creating Promotional Tie-In Extras For Your Book »
By Varsha Bajaj
On November 9, 2016, I was at my local Target store.
I had bought milk, eggs, bananas and dog treats and I wandered into the books section because that’s where I am known to stray when I need comforting.
Right there beside Dr. Seuss and under Eric Carle was This is Our Baby,
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