Peggy Tierney on Peggy Tierney:
“I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where I attended community college part-time. I transferred to the American University of Paris in 1990 and received a degree in Comparative Literature in 1992. I then moved to London to marry a man I met in Paris,
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Shirley Reva Vernick is the first-time author of The Blood Lie (Cinco Puntos, 2011)(teachers’ guide). From the promotional copy:
One autumn afternoon in 1928, a Christian girl disappeared near her home in a small upstate New York town.
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By Peggy Thomas
As a nonfiction writer I am, by profession, a nosy person. I root around scrutinizing other people’s lives and work.
But when Margery Facklam, my mother and award-winning children’s author, suggested that we collaborate on a how-to guide for writing nonfiction, I wasn’t sure I wanted to be scrutinized.
Won Ton – A Cat Tale Told in Haiku by Lee Wardlaw, illustrated by Eugene Yelchin (Henry Holt) has won the Cat Writers’ Association Muse Medallion for Best Children’s Book and the Fancy Feast/Purina Love Story award for the book that best captures the magic of the loving relationship between cats and their owners.
Anne McCaffrey, Author of ‘Dragonriders’ Fantasies, Dies at 85 by Margalit Fox from The New York Times: “Anne Inez McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Mass., on April 1, 1926. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Slavonic languages and literature from Radcliffe, and trained as an actress and opera singer before her writing life transported her to operatic worlds of another kind.”
By Cynthia Leitich Smith
from Cynsations
Here’s to a bountiful harvest season!
Cynsational Notes
Cynthia Leitich Smith is the New York Times and Publishers Weekly best-selling author of the Tantalize series for young adults and several acclaimed children’s books, most recently including Holler Loudly.
Orchards (Delacorte, 2011) actually developed from research for an adult novel set on a mikan (mandarin orange) farm in a Japanese village. I’ve lived in Japan for sixteen years, and I’d written an article years ago on female migrant laborers in Kanagawa Prefecture. From that experience, I’d drafted a short story about an American woman marrying into a Japanese mikan farming family,
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I discovered that readers found my writing funny after I published my first novel, Lost It (Simon Pulse, 2007), and multiple reviewers used the word “hilarious” in their evaluations of the story. I thought, Cool. I’m a funny writer. That makes sense. I’m a jokey person.
But this realization soon gave way to something else.
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Katherine Battersby is the first-time author-illustrator of Squish Rabbit (Viking, 2011)(blog). From the promotional copy:
Squish is just a little rabbit. But being little can lead to BIG problems. Sometimes Squish is hard to hear, and see. And it isn’t easy making friends.
But no matter how little Squish is,
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Remember the wildfires that ravaged Texas in September?
The Bastrop Public Library didn’t burn, but much of its collection was lost along with the homes of the kids and teens that had checked out books.
Here’s how you can help:
The Friends of the Bastrop Public Library and the Austin Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators are accepting book and monetary donations in conjunction with a Bastrop Public Library Open House on Dec.
