For some people, starting a new novel is like that scene in “The Sound Of Music,” where Maria’s tra-la-la-ing on a mountaintop, arms spread out, spinning in delirious joy.
If you’re like me, though, that blank white page isn’t cause for bursting into song.
Bursting into tears,
Enter to win a signed advanced reader copy of Kissing in America by Margo Rabb (HarperCollins, 2015). From the promotional copy:
Acclaimed writer Margo Rabb’s Kissing in America is “a wonderful novel about friendship, love, travel, life, hope, poetry, intelligence, and the inner lives of girls,”
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As much as we would like to commit our entire lives to writing, most of us live in the real world. We can’t afford to spend our time at Walden Pond or in a permanent, never-ending, writer’s retreat.
We fit in writing amongst our day jobs, our kids,
Meeting young writers at The Voracious Reader.
In the spring of 1981, Space Shuttle Columbia completed a successful orbital mission around the Earth, my hometown New York Islanders won the Stanley Cup and eight-year-old me wrote my first fan letter. It was not a letter to Shaun Cassidy or Scott Baio,
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By Dana Walrath
My first novel, Like Water on Stone, just came out (Delacorte, Nov. 2014). Of course, I’m smiling. The cover and interior of the book are beautifully produced. I’ve poured my soul into it.
“What’s it about?” people ask me.
When I tell them, “It’s the story of three siblings who survive the Armenian genocide of 1915 with the help of the guardian spirit of an eagle,” I’ve learned that I better get my smile under control.
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By Dianne White
I haven’t always been a writer – at least not in the way I assume my friends who write must have been as children growing up.
I never wrote stories I couldn’t wait to share with my parents and teachers; I was not the kid who stapled lined pages together to write and illustrate my own books;
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By Bruce Hale
Tell the truth, did you ever want to be a secret agent?
To experience the glamour, the danger, the mad spy skills?
I sure did, and from that childhood desire to be James Bond sprang my newest Disney-Hyperion series for tweens, School for S.P.I.E.S.
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Enter to win a set of four signed copies of middle grade novels by Greg Leitich Smith and a pterodactyl puppet!
Today he makes his home in Austin, but Greg grew up on the north side of Chicago.
He is of German and Japanese heritage,
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In true form, I dreamt of my novel as a baby, prior to the release. I dreamt I arrived, great with child, at my baby shower, and everyone left. Seriously. It’s not hard to find the symbolism.
Thankfully, my baby shower has been attended!
My book Hit (Blink,
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Enter to win a signed advanced reader copy of Wish Girl by Nikki Loftin (Razorbill, 2015). Author sponsored. Eligibility: North America. From the promotional copy:
…this lyrical novel that will break your heart and lift your spirit.
Peter Stone’s parents and siblings are extroverts,
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