By Robin Galbraith
for Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations
The Problem
Like many writers, I have a lot of books.
One of my favorite social activities is going to a friend’s book signing and buying their fabulous book. I also love keeping up with the newly published children’s and young adult offerings and buying those amazing books.
Continue Reading Intern Insights: How to Set Up a Halloween Book Project »
By Tioka Tokedira
for SCBWI Bologna 2018 & Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations
Note: To wrap up Cynsations coverage of the 2018 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Tioka Tokedira, Regional Adviser for SCBWI France, talks with SCBWI co-founder Lin Oliver about trends in publishing for children and young adults.
Continue Reading Guest Interview: Lin Oliver on the Global Future of Children’s Literature »
LoonSong: A Writer’s Retreat is scheduled for Sept. 6 to Sept. 10 at Elbow Lake Lodge in Cook, Minnesota.
Faculty include children’s-YA authors Nikki Grimes, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Bruce Coville, Marion Dane Bauer, Jane Buchanan, Sarah Aronson,
Continue Reading LoonSong: A Writers Retreat & LoonSong: Turtle Island »
Jen Petro-Roy is the debut author of P.S. I Miss You (Feiwel & Friends, 2018). From the promotional copy:
Evie is heartbroken when her strict Catholic parents send her pregnant sister, Cilla, away to stay with a distant great aunt. All Evie wants is for her older sister to come back.
Continue Reading New Voice: Jen Petro-Roy on Epistolary Novels & P.S. I Miss You »
I recently returned to live in the Washington D.C. area after a three-year stint living in Durban, South Africa.
Why Durban, you ask? Most people do. That is definitely a story I will be writing one day – so you’ll have to stay tuned for that one.
My first picture book,
Continue Reading Guest Post: Carole Lindstrom on Writing on Two Continents »
Hannah West is the first-time author of Kingdom of Ash and Briars (Holiday House, 2016). From the promotional copy:
Building on homages to Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Jane Austen’s Emma and the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, Hannah West makes a spectacular and wholly original debut.
Continue Reading New Voice: Hannah West on Kingdom of Ash and Briars »
I’m honored to announce that Gayleen Rabakukk has been chosen as the summer-fall 2016 Cynsations intern. Thanks to all who applied!
Here’s more from Gayleen:
“You mean you both just sit there and write? On different things?
Continue Reading Cynsations Intern: Gayleen Rabakukk on Writing Communities »
Browse-able Excerpt from Epic Reads
I.W. Gregorio is the first-time author of None of the Above (Balzer+Bray/HarperCollins, 2015). From the promotional copy:
What if everything you knew about yourself changed in an instant?
When Kristin Lattimer is voted homecoming queen,
Continue Reading New Voice: I.W. Gregorio on None of the Above »
Cynthia Leitich Smith & Jean Reidy at The Writing Barn
By Jean Reidy
I’ve been tackling a new genre – the middle grade novel. And after hammering out the latest draft of a novel-in-progress and getting solid feedback, I was excited to put the “work” into a workshop.
Continue Reading Guest Post: Jean Reidy on Choosing a Writer’s Workshop »
Kirsten Lopresti
is the first-time author of Bright Coin Moon (Sky Pony Press, 2014)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
Seventeen-year-old Lindsey Allen is an A-student who has her heart set on becoming an astronomer. But first she must break away from her mother,
Continue Reading New Voices: Kirsten Lopresti on Bright Coin Moon »
