Making Deals with the Writing Gods by Nora Raleigh Baskin from Janni Lee Simner at Desert Dispatches. Peek: “I’m terrified I can never do it again. I will run out of ideas. I’ll be too old. My brain will rot. I won’t sell enough and no one will offer me a contract again.
Many blessings over the winter holidays! I’ll see you again early in the New Year!
Happy (Almost) 2014!
In the meantime, follow me at my facebook author page and/or twitter @CynLeitichSmith, where I’ll be highlighting the same kind of children’s-YA writing and publishing news you expect from my weekly roundup.
Esther Hershenhorn Recommends Snowflakes Fall by Patricia Maclachlan, illustrated Steven Kellogg (Random House, 2013) from Teaching Authors. Peek: “In a Feb. 25 Publishers Weekly interview, Patricia MacLachlan shared that the snowflake motif used to underscore each individual’s uniqueness and the power of nature and time to help heal was inspired by the Connecticut Parent Teachers Association’s efforts to encourage people to create paper snowflakes to decorate the new school Sandy Hook
students would be attending.”
Author photo by Leigh Elise
By Kathi Appelt
N. Griffin is the first-time author of The Whole Stupid Way We Are (Atheneum, 2013). From the promotional copy:
It’s Maine. It’s winter. And it’s freezing stinkin’ cold!
Dinah is wildly worried about her best friend,
Continue Reading Guest Interview: Kathi Appelt & N. Griffin on The Whole Stupid Way We Are »
Quick, name a favorite literary or movie character. Now, what is it about him/her that’s so appealing?
In all likelihood, the reason you love that character is because he or she embodies a trait that you value: Atticus Finch’s bravery, George Bailey’s selflessness,
Continue Reading Guest Post & Giveaway: Becca Puglisi on Where Do Character Strengths Come From? »
By Greg Pincus
Greg Pincus is the first-time author of The 14 Fibs of Gregory K. (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2013)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
Gregory K. comes from a family of mathematical geniuses. But if he claimed to love math he’d be fibbing.
Continue Reading Guest Post: Greg Pincus on Writing & Marketing with Serious Lead Time »
I’ve spent several months on an unconventional book tour for my latest YA, Fat Angie (Candlewick, 2013)–workshopping with at-risk youth who have affectionately tagged me as the tattooed, rockstar, Wexican (whitest Mexican American) YA author/filmmaker.
This whirlwind tour, where I stuffed my belongings into storage and traveled by rental car,
Continue Reading Guest Post: e.E. Charlton-Trujillo on Your Book, Your Niche from the Trench »
There is a little piece of me in every nonfiction book I’ve written. Maybe no one else can tell, but I know it is there. Sometimes I see it in the text of the words I’ve written. Sometimes I see it in the white space –the words I didn’t write.
Continue Reading Guest Post: Carla Killough McClafferty on Revealing Your Heart in Nonfiction »
Sam Bond is the first-time author of Operation Golden Llama (Cousins in Action)(Volume 1)(Bound, 2013). From the promotional copy:
Dumped at their eccentric Grandma’s, Cagney, Olivia, Aidan, Lissy and Tess are convinced they’re in for a boring summer. But when Grandma gets a series of mysterious phone calls and a highly unlikely pet sitter arrives,
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Revelry! Killer of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac from Steam Punk Romance | Coffee Time Romance. Peek: “Not too many books I know contain a pedantic Sasquatch with ESP. But he and his people are in the traditions of every Native American nation and it was not hard at all for me to imagine them surviving into the tenuous future of my story.”
