Craft, Career  & Cheer: Bonnie Christensen

Craft, Career & Cheer: Bonnie Christensen

Learn about Bonnie Christensen.

Note: interior illustrations below are from Bonnie’s Django, World’s Greatest Jazz Guitarist (Neal Porter/Roaring Brook, 2009) and featured here with permission.

What do you love most about the creative life?

In attempting to answer this question, I ran straight into a wall. There are so very many things to love about the creative life,

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Craft, Career  & Cheer: Claudia Guadalupe Martinez

Craft, Career & Cheer: Claudia Guadalupe Martinez

Learn about Claudia Guadalupe Martinez.

Could you describe the your experience working with an editor?

I’ve only written one book, but I couldn’t have asked for a better experience—I may have to light a candle when I submit my next book in hopes that my next experience is this positive. I tell people that working with my editor was like getting a free MFA.

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Craft, Career  & Cheer: Kimberley Griffiths Little

Craft, Career & Cheer: Kimberley Griffiths Little

Learn about Kimberley Griffiths Little.

In the photo, she signs a three-book contract for The Healing Spell (Scholastic, July 2010), Secret Rites of the Goddess (Scholastic, fall 2010), and The Traiteur’s Daughter (Scholastic, summer 2011)!

Visit Kimberley’s Wanderings: Thoughts, Musings, and the Writing Life of YA Author Kimberley Griffiths Little.

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