By Karen Rock
Award-winning, international bestselling YA author, Alexander Gordon Smith is best known for his Escape From Furnace Series, comprised of Lockdown, Solitary, Death Sentence, Fugitives and Execution.
His latest series, The Fury, is eagerly anticipated for its stateside arrival in 2013.
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Keeping Up with the Smiths Book Giveaway!
The Montgomery County (Texas) Book Festival (Feb. 2) is giving away a signed copy of Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Diabolical (Candlewick, 2012) and Greg Leitich Smith’s Chronal Engine (Clarion,
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Barbara Elizabeth Walsh is the first-time author of The Poppy Lady: Moina Belle Michael and Her Tribute to Veterans, illustrated by Layne Johnson (Calkins Creek, 2012). From the promotional copy:
Moina Belle Michael,
Melissa Guion is the first-time author-illustrator of Baby Penguins Everywhere! (Philomel, 2012)(blog). From the promotional copy:
Can there be such a thing as too many adorable penguins?
One day a penguin sees a most unusual sight: a hat floating in the icy water.
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Linda Joy Singleton on Linda Joy Singleton: “As a kid, I was always writing. During a two-week school vacation, when I was 14, I challenged myself to write a chapter a day, completing a 200 page manuscript. I kept many of my stories and show them to kids I speak to at school.
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What memories of your debut author experience stand out?
In my twenties, I wrote eight full-length adult historical novels set in ancient Rome, none of which were ever published. You’d think I would have noticed prior to writing eight of them that nobody wanted them.
I started writing short stories instead;
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Donna Cooner is the first-time author of Skinny (Scholastic, 2012). From the promotional copy:
Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful.
These are the words of Skinny, the vicious voice that lives inside fifteen-year-old Ever Davies’s head. Skinny tells Ever all the dark thoughts her classmates have about her.
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Shelley & Fiona
Shelley Tanaka is a writer, editor, teacher and translator. She has a B.A. in English and German from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto.
She is the author and translator of more than two dozen books for young readers.
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Kim Baker is the first-time author of Pickle: The (Formerly) Anonymous Prank Club of Fountain Point Middle School (Roaring Brook, 2012)(excerpt). From the promotional copy:
This is the story of The League of Picklemakers
Ben: who began it all by sneaking in one night and filling homeroom with ball-pit balls.
Check out the cover for Feral Nights (Book One in the Feral series) by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Candlewick, Feb. 2012). From the promotional copy:
Fans of the Tantalize quartet will thrill to see werepossum Clyde and other favorite secondary characters — plus all-new ones — take to the fore in book one of an all-new series.
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