New Adult Covers
Just as the difference between a middle grade story and a young adult story is more than the characters’ ages and grades in school, the difference between a young adult story and a new adult story is more than the characters’ ages and their graduation from high school.
Speaking at KidlitCon 2013
Today marks the 10th Anniversary of Cynsations!
The blog launched on Nov. 12, 2004; and featured children’s author Chris Barton, talking about consolidation and marketing.
There was no introductory post and no images–until Blogger introduced that option.
Thanks so much to each of you for reading and sharing your thoughts!
Over the last decade I’ve published seven middle-grade novels with Random House and Scholastic, focusing my last four titles on contemporary magical realism stories set in the bayous and swamps of Louisiana with page-turning plots and a lot of heart and family issues.
But I also write young adult and always have.
This picture of my then three-year-old granddaughter Michelle inadvertently sparked the idea for Ship of Dolls (Candlewick, 2014) and a forthcoming sequel, Dolls of Hope.
My son and daughter-in-law had taken Michelle to visit her maternal grandparents in Japan in time for the traditional girl’s day festival of Hintamatsuri.
Continue Reading Guest Post & Giveaway: Shirley Parenteau on Ship of Dolls »
Compiled by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Enter to win one of two signed hardcover copies of What Flowers Remember by Shannon Wiersbitzky (namelos, 2014). Eligibility: U.S. From the promotional copy:
Most folks probably think gardens only get tended when they’re blooming. But most folks would be wrong. According to the almanac,
Continue Reading Giveaway: What Flowers Remember by Shannon Wiersbitzky »
Check out the cover for my upcoming novel, Feral Pride (Candlewick, 2015) and the book trailer for the Feral series, produced by Book Candy Studios.
From the promotional copy for Feral Pride:
Anti-shifter sentiment is at an all-time high when Kayla’s transformation to werecat is captured on video and uploaded for the world to see.
When I was young I read a book a day.
I always had a book with me, whether it was inside my desk when I was done with the class assignment, or in the car as the family drove somewhere (and especially long trips), the waiting room of the dentist office,
Jon & Mac
By Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen
Mac: Hi, Jon!
Jon: Oh! Hi Mac!
Mac: And hello, Cynsations readers. We have taken over the blog today.
Jon: Yes.
Mac: We are using our power to just post this gchat we are having into the blog.
Enter to win one of three signed paperback copies of Uncovered (An Autumn Covarrubias Mystery) by S.X. Bradley (Evernight, 2014). Author sponsored. Eligibility: U.S. only.
From the promotional copy:
Last year sixteen-year-old Autumn solved her sister’s murder.
Continue Reading Giveaway: Uncovered (An Autumn Covarrubias Mystery) by S.X. Bradley »
By Mary Losure
Years ago, when I was wheeling my groceries out to the car at sunset, I looked up and imagined witches silhouetted against the pink and gold sky.
The moment grew into my first novel, the story of two young witches on a journey to the human world.
Please don’t ask me how many drafts it took.
