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Guest Post: T.A. Maclagan on Spy Novel Covers & They Call Me Alexandra Gastone

Guest Post: T.A. Maclagan on Spy Novel Covers & They Call Me Alexandra Gastone

Posted on April 20, 2015January 4, 2019

By T.A. Maclagan

From the promotional copy of They Call Me Alexandra Gastone by T.A. Maclagan (Full Fathom Five Digital, 2015):

When your life is a lie, how do you know what’s real?


Alexandra Gastone has a simple plan: graduate high school,

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Guest Post & Giveaway: Bruce Hale on Is There a Book Idea in Your Childhood?

Guest Post & Giveaway: Bruce Hale on Is There a Book Idea in Your Childhood?

Posted on December 9, 2014January 4, 2019

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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About Cynsations


Cynthia Leitich Smith is a New York Times bestselling, award-winning author for young readers. Her 2023 release is HARVEST HOUSE, an Indigenous YA ghost mystery. Her most recent previous books are ANCESTOR APPROVED: INTERTRIBAL STORIES FOR KIDS, which was an ALA Notable Children’s Book; SISTERS OF THE NEVERSEA, which received six starred reviews; and HEARTS UNBROKEN, which won an American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award. She also is the author-curator of Heartdrum, a Native-focused imprint, and a member of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA faculty.

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