Learn more about Tim Wynne-Jones.
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?
By Traci Sorell
Kate Hart’s YA novel, After the Fall, debuted in January 2017 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. From the promotional copy:
Kate Hart’s debut YA novel After the Fall is a wrenching, emotional read and an intense conversation starter about issues of sexual consent.
This fall a number of awards were given out to the best of Canadian children and young adult books.
Here’s the rundown of who won, the shortlist and more.
The 2017 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Awards
Every November, in a gala event at The Carlu in downtown Toronto,
Omar Bah, director of the Refugee Dream Center
with Lin Oliver, SCBWI executive director
Back in April I interviewed Lin Oliver, executive director of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators about the organization’s new initiative: Books for Readers.
Continue Reading SCBWI Books for Readers Increases Book Access »
By Cynthia Leitich Smith,
Gayleen Rabakukk & Robin Galbraith
Author Insights
Best Books of 2017: Ibi Zoboi by Alex Heimbach from Kirkus Reviews. Peek:
“When Ibi Zoboi’s family moved from Haiti to Bushwick, Brooklyn, they found that the change wasn’t as positive as they’d hoped.
Lisa Bunker is the debut author of Felix Yz (Viking, 2017). From the promotional copy:
“If it wasn’t for the fused-with-Zyx thing, I suppose I would just be normal—whatever that means.”
When Felix Yz was three years old, a hyperintelligent fourth-dimensional being became fused inside him after one of his father’s science experiments went terribly wrong.
Before becoming a translator, I wrote historical fiction set in part in Chile, a country I knew from working with exiles who had fled the Pinochet dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s as well as with musicians inside the country who were working underground to restore democracy.
In addition to my knowledge gained from personal relationships and spending time in Chile, Continue Reading Guest Post: Lyn Miller-Lachmann on Literature in Translation as Empowering Own Voices »
In writing, as in many professions, there’s a lot of emphasis on getting that one big break.
This is the story we tell about writers: that we slave away for months or years or decades and then—at last!—that first story or first novel sells. Our career is launched,
Continue Reading Guest Post: Janni Lee Simner on Setbacks & The Writing Journey »
Learn more about Monica Brown.
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?
