Cover Stories: Forgive My Fins by Tara Lyn Childs from Melissa Walker. Peek: “I sent it immediately to my friends at Blue Willow Bookshop for their bookseller perspective and then sent on their suggestions with mine. The art department at Harper absolutely took those suggestions to heart. They were extremely committed to making the cover as perfect as possible and worked on every little detail.”
By J.T. Dutton
“Fifteen-year-old boys like sex,” a member of my graduate committee said one day, a few weeks before I was to defend my thesis.
We had been discussing what a visiting writer to our school had dubbed the absence of a socio-sexual agenda in the draft of my manuscript.
I had it in mind that my main character,
Continue Reading Guest Post: J.T. Dutton on The Problem of Sex in Young Adult Novels »
Three Days of Fey by Shveta Thakrar from A Desi Faerie Spins Stories of Stars and Silver, Jasmine in Her Hair. Featuring interviews with Cyn Balog, Malinda Lo, and watch this LJ for number three. Read Cynsations interviews with Cyn and Malinda.
Enter to win an ARC of Pure by Terra Elan McVoy (Simon Pulse, 2009)! To enter, email me (scroll and click envelope) with your name and snail/street mail address and type “Pure” in the subject line. Deadline: May 30. From the promotional copy:
“Tabitha and her four best friends all wear purity rings,
Movie Trailer for “Where The Wild Things Are” (Oct. 16, 2009).
Encouragement from friends on my path to publication by Don Tate from Crowe’s Nest. Peek: “So what’s a guy like me doing with a literary agent like Sara? Well, hard work of course. But especially because of the encouragement, advice, and general goodwill I received from friends in the children’s literature community — and especially Austin SCBWI.”
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,
Sarah Davies runs the Greenhouse, a full-service literary agency exclusively for authors of fiction (though not picture books) for children and young adults. Greenhouse launched in January 2008 and has already developed and sold a number of debut authors.
With offices in Virginia (just outside Washington D.C.) and London, the agency represents both American and British authors and sells direct to both markets.
Continue Reading Agent Interview: Sarah Davies of The Greenhouse Literary Agency »
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?
Sparkling local writers joined forces at the Awesome Austin Writers Workshop from June 27 to June 29 at my home.
The objectives were to build and nurture an already strong youth literature writing community (we rock!), to exchange ideas (we shared!), to support one another (we cheered!), to gain insights into our works in progress (we learned!),
Abigail Samoun on Abigail Samoun: “Abigail Samoun is a project editor with Tricycle Press, the children’s book imprint of Ten Speed Press, in Berkeley, California, where she has worked since 2000.
“Abigail has edited board books, picture books, middle-grade fiction, and early young-adult novels.
Continue Reading Editor Interview: Abigail Samoun of Tricycle Press »
