By Lindsey Lane
When an author or an illustrator gets the news that their book is going out of print (OP) or out of stock (OS), it is a blow. A tragedy. It feels like a death in the family. After all, a book is a creation, something that sprang from our imaginations,
By Lindsey Lane
When an author or an illustrator gets the news that their book is going out of print (OP) or out of stock (OS), it is a blow. A tragedy. It feels like a death in the family. After all, a book is a creation, something that sprang from our imaginations,
By Lindsey Lane
When an author or an illustrator gets the news that their book is going out of print (OP) or out of stock (OS), it is a blow. A tragedy. It feels like a death in the family.
After all, a book is a creation, something that sprang from our imaginations,
By Lindsey Lane
When an author or an illustrator gets the news that their book is going out of print (OP) or out of stock (OS), it is a blow. A tragedy. It feels like a death in the family.
After all, a book is a creation,
By Cynthia Leitich Smith, Robin Galbraith, Gayleen Rabukukk, and Stephani Eaton for Cynsations
Author/Illustrator Insights
Interview with Ibi Zoboi by Edith Campbell from CrazyQuiltEdi. Peek:
“…the process of placing the stories in a certain order. Like a novel,
On the flight home after a recent conference, I read Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Hearts Unbroken (Candlewick, 2018). It struck a chord in part because, although I was elated that so many people had read advanced reader copies (ARCs) of my novel The Bridge Home (Nancy Paulsen Books,
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By Traci Sorell
Today I have the pleasure of featuring Carolyn Anderson and Anthony Ceballos of Birchbark Books, one of three Native-owned independent bookstores in the United States.
Owned by award-winning Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich, Birchbark Books is located in southwest Minneapolis.
Welcome to Cynsations!
Continue Reading Bookseller Interview: Carolyn Anderson & Anthony Ceballos of Birchbark Books »
In children’s-YA writing, maintaining an active publishing career is arguably an even bigger challenge than breaking into the field.
Reflecting on your personal journey (creatively, career-wise, and your writer’s heart), what bumps did you encounter and how have you managed to defy the odds to achieve continued success?
Bumps and defying the odds?
Welcome to our new home, Cynsational Readers! We have moved from Blogger to WordPress.
Anyone who’s ever relocated from one place to another knows that it can be one of life’s most stressful events. And while we weren’t packing physical boxes and loading up a moving truck during the Cynsations winter hiatus,
Welcome to Cynsations New Home!
We’ll be back February 11 with reflective conversations, publishing information, writer insights & inspiration, bookseller-librarian-teacher appreciation, children’s-YA literature news & author outreach…
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