By Lena Coakley
Alan Cumyn is the author of many acclaimed novels for both children and adults.
Books in his Owen Skye series have won the Mr. Christies and Hackmatack awards and were nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award,
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Teaching to Learn by Louise Hawes from Write at Your Own Risk. Peek: “I know now, what this mildly famous author missed by not working with new and emerging writers. He missed the chance to grow, to change, to be inspired far beyond his own lonely dreams.”
Pacifiers or Catalysts: Your Choice by Kristi Holl from Writer’s First Aid.
Guys Read: Thriller by Jon Scieszka from Debbie Gonzales at ReaderKidZ. Peek: “Gripping tales of ghosts, ghouls, and the odd pirate will most certainly enthrall the most reluctant reader. Who could resist reading about ghost vision glasses, monster hunters, or a wish machine that conjures up the desires of the dead?” Note: Melissa Sweet is the author-in-residence this month at ReaderKidz. Continue Reading Cynsational News & Giveaways »
Getting Banned from the LA Review of Books: a series of posts by Ron Koertge, Ellen Hopkins, Susan Patron, Lauren Myracle, Sonya Sones. Peek from Lauren: “…every book deserves a fair shake, regardless of its perceived moral stance, its alleged ugliness or depravity,
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Kathi Baron is the first-time author of Shattered (WestSideBooks, 2009); visit Kathi at Blogger. From the promotional copy:
Teen violin prodigy Cassie has been tiptoeing around her father, whose moods have become increasingly explosive. After he destroys her beloved and valuable violin in a sudden rage, Cassie, shocked, runs away,
The brilliant and spirited Norma Fox Mazer passed away on Oct. 17. She’s already missed.
We first met in person when I joined the faculty of the Vermont College program in Writing for Children and Young Adults in July 2005.
I’ll admit to having been fairly starstruck by the entire group.
Cynsations will be on hiatus from now until sometime shortly after July 22 while I teach at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults summer 2009 residency in Montpelier.
I look forward to working with fellow faculty members Kathi Appelt, Marion Dane Bauer,
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Sharon Darrow has taught writing at Waubonsee Community College, College of DuPage, and Columbia College of Chicago. She writes poetry, short stories, creative nonfiction, picture books, and novels. She is the faculty chair of the MFA program in Writing for Children & Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Mark your calendars! Authors Kathi Appelt and Cynthia Leitich Smith invite you to join them at 1 p.m. April 11 at BookPeople (Sixth and Lamar) in Austin. They will be celebrating the success of Kathi’s The Underneath (Atheneum, 2008), which was a National Book Award Finalist and newly crowned ALA Newbery Honor Book,
