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Learn about Barbara O'Connor . When and where do you write? Why does that time and space work for you? I'm a morning person all the way. I love the early morning and am always freshest and most creative then. Honestly, I don't think I could write at night if I had to. My mind simply cannot ...
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Selene Castrovilla is the debut YA author of Saved By the Music (WestSide, 2009)(read her LJ ). From the promotional copy: The last place fifteen-year-old Willow wants to spend her summer is on a run-down former coffee barge in a boatyard in Rockaway in New York City. But that's where her ...
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Cynsations officially welcomes The Texas Sweethearts: Three Authors Who Write for Kids and Teens to the kidlitosphere! Peek: "We're from the awesome state of Texas—Austin to be exact. (For you non-Texans, that's the nice, shiny star in the center of the state.) We're entertaining, engaging, ...
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Learn about Bruce Hale . Could you describe the best experience you've had working with an editor? Working with Michael Stearns, first at Harcourt, then at HarperCollins, has been my best editorial experience so far. (So it's all the more disappointing that he’s quit editing for agentry .) ...
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Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith is now available in paperback from Walker Books Australia and New Zealand! See more information from Walker Books Australia and New Zealand . The companion book, Tantalize , also is available in both hardcover and paperback from Walker Books Australia and New ...
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Samantha R. Vamos is the first-time author of Before You Were Here, Mi Amor , illustrated by Santiago Cohen (Viking, 2009) Could you tell us the story of "the call" or "the email" when you found out that your book had sold? How did you react? How did you celebrate? My husband was out of the ...
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Browse, bid, and win for a good cause at this online auction to raise money for Bridget Zinn! Bridget is a 32-year-old YA author and librarian who is currently being treated for stage 4 colon cancer – and her "healthy young person between jobs" health insurance does not cover many of her ...
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Learn about David Lubar . What do you
love most about your creative life? Why? I love...
solving problems. And, really, that's the main job of a fiction writer. We solve our characters' problems. We have the added pleasure of giving them the problems ...
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Craft, Career & Cheer: David Lubar
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The Eyeball Collector by F.E. Higgins (Feiwel &
Friends 2009) : a recommendation by Greg Leitich Smith...
from GregLSBlog. Seven Characteristics You Need to Get Published by Carolyn Kaufman from QueryTracker.net. Peek: "The first thing every real ...
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Learn more about Susan Patron and her latest book, Lucky Breaks , illustrated by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/ginee seo, 2009). How do you psyche yourself up to write and to keep writing? When I was eight, I had to keep my little sister captive in the bathtub every night until ...
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Cyndi Hughes is the executive director of the Writers' League of Texas . She was the proprietor of Cynthia Hughes Literary Management, a literary publicity and consulting firm based in Austin. Before founding CHLM, she was the founding director of the Texas Book Festival from 1996 to 2003. ...
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I'm honored that the Cover Story for Eternal is featured today at Melissa Walker's blog. Peek: "I couldn't figure out how the designers would incorporate two similarly laid-out profiles, unless one was on the front and one on the back, but then, how would they pick which would go where?" The ...
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Anita Silvey 's latest book is Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book: Life Lessons from Notable People from All Walks of Life (Roaring Brook, 2009). So far, what’s the most fun you’ve ever had working on a book? Why? I know that many authors suffer from the "my newest ...
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Author Round-up: Writing Around The Holidays by Tina Ferraro from YA Fresh. Peek from Sydney Salter : "I exchange knowing glances with the other café regulars and I buckle down and write as fast as I can for an hour or two while sipping a peppermint mocha." Native American Spirituality in ...
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From Jacqueline Houtman , author of The Reinvention of Edison Thomas (Front Street, 2010) Artists, authors, business owners... Please consider donating an item or service to sell in an auction to benefit Bridget Zinn [see left, click for blog ] and Barrett Dowell. Bridget is a 32-year-old ...
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Learn about Lyn Miller-Lachmann , author and the editor-in-chief of MultiCultural Review . How did you come to devote your professional life to literature for young readers? I attended graduate school in the late 1970s to become an academic historian, but I quickly realized I didn't enjoy ...
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Learn about Mahtab Narsimhan , and read her blog . How do you psyche yourself up to write and to keep writing? I set a reward before I start writing and will allow myself that reward only if I finish the quota for the day. Normally that entails surfing the Net or writing a nice long e-mail ...
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WBBT: Writing the True with Cynthia Leitich Smith
: an interview by Vivian at HipWriterMama. Note: Check...
out my deep thoughts on my publishing background, writing across formats, Native youth literature, writing cross-culturally, girl power & ...
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Aaron Reynolds is a human, not a bug, but he often writes about bugs. He is the author of: Chicks and Salsa , illustrated by Paulette Bogan (2005); Superhero School , illustrated by Randy Rash (2009); Buffalo Wings , illustrated by Paulette Bogan (2007)(all Bloomsbury); and, of course, the ...
