The deadline for the WNDB™ mentorship program is Oct. 31. We are offering mentorships to four aspiring authors and one illustrator who are diverse or working on diverse books. This is an opportunity to work with some experienced and talented members of our community, and receive individual support and feedback on a work-in-progress.
Check out the book trailer for Little Tree by Loren Long (Philomel, 2015). From the promotional copy:
In the middle of a little forest, there lives a Little Tree who loves his life and the splendid leaves that keep him cool in the heat of long summer days.
Enter to win one of two copies of The Caretaker’s Guide to Fablehaven by Brandon Mull (Shadow Mountain, 2015) and an author-signed Fablehaven poster.
Caretakers of magical preserves need to visually identify dozens of mythical and magical creatures. This book will open your eyes to a secret world most humans know nothing about.
By Beth Revis
Beth Note: Don’t miss out on the giveaway at the end of this post. And remember all orders of Paper Hearts made before Nov. 15 from Malaprops will come with a special gift–see details below!
You can win a journal with this cover! Continue Reading Guest Post & Giveaway: Beth Revis on: Paper Hearts: Some Writing Advice »
Q&A of R. Gregory Christie, author and illustrator of Mousetropolis, by Chris Barton from Bartography. Peek: “…my motivation is to bring ethnic groups together and in some ways to bring balance to historical lesson plans.”
Depression and The Writer’s Mind by Lucy Coats from An Awfully Big Blog Adventure.
Compiled by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Vera B. Williams, 88, Dies; Brought Working Class to Children’s Books by Margalit Fox from The New York Times. Peek “Vera B. Williams, a writer and illustrator for young people whose picture books centered on the lives of working-class families, a highly unusual subject when she began her work in the 1970s,
Enter to win one of two copies of Mysteries of Cove, Vol. 1: Fires of Invention by J. Scott Savage (Shadow Mountain, 2015). From the promotional copy:
Trenton Colman is exceptionally creative with a knack for all things mechanical. But his talents are viewed with suspicion in Cove,
Continue Reading Giveaway: Mysteries of Cove, Vol. 1: Fires of Invention by J. Scott Savage »
By Avery Fischer Udagawa
For Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Cynsations
Marian Schwartz is a master translator of Russian literature into English. Active in PEN and past president of the American Literary Translators Association, she has translated more than seventy books including the bestseller The Last Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky and a re-translation of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
Continue Reading Guest Interview: Translator Marian Schwartz on Playing a Part »
Teen Julie
When I was six years old, my big sister pulled me aside and whispered in my ear.
“I learned a bad word today.”
I asked her, “Is it terrible?”
“It’s awful, horrible.”
I smiled gleefully.
Continue Reading Guest Post & Illustration Giveaway: Julie Chibbaro on Writing in Black & White »
Six Key Points from the U.K. Study on Diversity in Publishing by Hannah Ehrlich from Lee & Low. Peek: “Diverse authors often felt that they were encouraged–or pushed–into the literary fiction genre. This means that authors of color are often at a commercial disadvantage,
