Writing Across Formats: Author Interview Round-up

The Writing Across Formats interview series features conversations with well established children’s-YA authors about creating a range of books–why they do so, what it’s taught them, and the pressures of author branding.

Click link from author name for more information about that contributor. Click link from “see WAF interview” to read more of their thoughts.

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Writing Across Formats: Michelle Knudsen

Michelle Knudsen is the author of 40 books for children. Her best-known title is Library Lion, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes (Candlewick, 2006), which was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into several languages. Her latest book is a middle-grade fantasy novel called The Dragon of Trelian (Candlewick,

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Cynsational Readers Take Over and Interview Cynthia Leitich Smith

In 2010, I’m celebrating ten years as an author of children’s-YA literature. My first book was Jingle Dancer, illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu (Morrow, 2000) and my most recent release is Holler Loudly, illustrated by Barry Gott (Dutton, 2010)–now available!

Of late, I’ve invited Cynsations readers to send in questions for me to answer.

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