By Kathi Appelt
Hallie Durand is the author of the middle grade books Dessert First, Just Desserts, and No Room for Dessert, illustrated by Christine Davenier (Atheneum).
Her first picture book was Mitchell’s License (Candlewick). Mitchell Goes Bowling is her second picture book.
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My new YA novel Conjured (Bloomsbury, 2013) is the darkest novel I’ve ever written. I worked hard to create an atmosphere of disorientation and ominous chaos.
It’s about a girl in the paranormal witness protection program, who, haunted by visions of carnival tents and tarot cards,
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I was so excited when Charlesbridge’s imprint, Mackinac Island Press, approached me to illustrate One Word Pearl by Nicole Groeneweg, because it’s all about words!
Immediately, I started thinking how to use words in the images.
I had a ton of fun cutting out words from magazines and anything I could find (just like Pearl),
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Six weeks before my novel Rogue (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin, 2013) came out, I attended a friend’s launch party and thought, “I could never pull this off.”
Her apartment building’s party room was jam-packed with guests, everyone had a good time, and all her books sold out.
I have Asperger’s syndrome,
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Author copies are in the house!
Feral Nights (Book 1 in the Feral trilogy) is now available from Walker Books in the United Kingdom. Note the light-catching embossed detailing and kicker line: “The hunt is on…” 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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Coming February 2014!
Check out the gorgeous cover for my upcoming novel Feral Curse (Book 2 in the Feral series)(Candlewick, Feb. 2014)!
From the promotional copy of Feral Curse:
The second installment of New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith’s thrilling Feral series delivers danger,
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When I was a wee girl in Massachusetts, I woke up one morning to find a Ginormous Hairy Spider dangling inches from my face, legs waving.
(Actually it wasn’t hairy at all and probably was a half-inch in diameter, legs included. But I’m not a fantasist for nothing.)
This was the start of a lifelong aversion.
Eternal: Zachary’s Story, graphic novel
By Samantha Clark,
Austin SCBWI regional advisor,
In celebration of Austin SCBWI‘s upcoming Graphic Novel Workshop, Cynthia Leitich Smith, answers questions about her graphic novels, Tantalize: Kieren’s Story (2011) and Eternal: Zachary’s Story (2013),
How do you make a graphic novel?
Short answer: any way you can!
Much like eating a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, there’s no wrong way to do it (as long as it gets done). Unlike, say, screenwriting — where the format is extremely specific, and there are countless books explaining all the rules and guidelines —
Sara Kocek
is the first-time author of Promise Me Something
(Albert Whitman Teen/Open Road Media, 2013). From the promotional copy:
Reyna didn’t mean to become friends with Olive Barton . . .
But when Olive kept talking after the lunch bell,
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