Enter to win a copy of Through the Wardrobe: Your Favorite Authors on C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia edited by Herbie Brennan (BenBella, 2008)(PDF excerpt)! Read an interview with Herbie. From the promotional copy:
Why is Prince Caspian the ultimate teenager?
What does Narnia have to do with the Nazis?
Enter to win a copy of Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series, edited by Rick Riordan with Leah Wilson (BenBella, 2008)(PDF excerpt)! Read a Cynsations interview with Rick. From the promotional copy:
How are the Greek gods like your middle school principal?
Enter to win one of two hardcover copies of The Porcupine Year by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins, 2008)!
From the promotional copy:
“Here follows the story of a most extraordinary year in the life of an Ojibwe family and of a girl named ‘Omakayas,’ or Little Frog, who lived a year of flight and adventure,
I last featured an SCBWI Bologna series interview with you in 2006! Highlighting as you see fit, could you update us on your back list and writing life since that time?
Since that interview Magic’s Child (Razorbill, 2007), the final book in the Magic or Madness (Razorbill, 2005-2007) trilogy, was published.
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Check out readergirlz’s “Books with Bite” series celebration of Teen Read Week; see the awesome trailer below:
The 2009 Red Dirt Book Festival has called for proposals. The theme is “Imagine Oklahoma: Read, Write, Talk.” Submit your proposal here. Deadline: Dec. 1. Note: the 4th annual Red Dirt Festival will be held in Shawnee,
Lisa Graff on Lisa Graff: “I grew up in a town called Big Bear, which is a tiny ski resort in Southern California where everyone knows everyone.
“After high school I moved to Los Angeles, where I studied Linguistics and Cognitive Psychology at UCLA. Then I switched gears completely and entered the MFA program in Writing for Children at the New School in Manhattan.
Enter to win one of four ARCs of Dead is the New Black by Marlene Perez (Harcourt, 2008)(author interview)! From the promotional copy:
“Fashion statement…or something freakier?
“The first installment of this creepy, campy paperback original series introduces the psychic Giordano sisters—and their very strange hometown,
Dead Is the New Black by Marlene Perez (Harcourt, 2008). From the promotional copy:
Fashion statement…or something freakier?
“The first installment of this creepy, campy paperback original series introduces the psychic Giordano sisters—and their very strange hometown, Nightshade, California.
“Teenage girls are being mysteriously attacked all over town,
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The 21rst Annual Edition of the Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Market edited by Alice Pope (Writer’s Digest, 2009) is now available.
The 2009 edition includes more than “700 listings for book publishers, magazines, agents, art reps, and more” as well as “exclusive interviews with award winning authors and publishing professionals.”
If you’re a beginner,
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Enter to win one of two copies of Gone by Michael Grant (HarperCollins, 2008). From the promotional copy:
“In the blink of an eye. Everyone disappears. Gone.
“Except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not one single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Just as suddenly,
