A Fuse #8 Production

November 20, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (2)

This has been a season of firsts.  I did my first Albert Whitman preview a week or so ago.  I'll be doing my first National Geographic preview in the future.  And I've certainly never done a Lerner Publishing Group preview before!  That's the nice thing about New York.  Even if the publishers ain't local, there's no reason for them not to say howdy when they happen to be in town.

And howdy it was!  Two lovely ladies, Lindsay Matvick and Terri Reden,...Read More

November 20, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

And all too soon it's over.  Here's the last of the best of the week, my loves.

Lisa Schroeder at Writing & Ruminating
Alan DeNiro at Shaken & Stirred
Joan Holub at Bildungsroman
Pam Bachorz at Mother Reader
Sheba Karim at Finding Wonderland
R.L. LaFevers at Hip Writer Mama

And Chasing Ray has the round-up.

November 19, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (11)

I'm allowed to be a fangirl once in a while, I think.  Now I don't often get a chance to interview an author or illustrator from my own youth.  Inevitably they're either dead or no longer working in the field of children's literature.  But you know, there was one artist around when I was a kid that has stayed in my brain.  The guy who really introduced me firsthand to the works of C.S. Lewis, Kenneth Grahame, J.M. Barrie . . . basically almost every classic I know today.  His name was Michael Hague and to this day the man is s...Read More

November 19, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Here's who's on the menu today!

Sy Montgomery Pt 2 at Chasing Ray
Laini Taylor at Shelf Elf
Jim DiBartolo at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Amanda Marrone at Writing & Ruminating
Thomas Randall at Bildungsroman

And Chasing Ray has the round-up.

November 18, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (7)

• A conflict of interest question has arisen regarding the National Book Awards in the Young Person's category over at One-Minute Book Reviews.  The writer is Janice Harayda, an award-winning journalist and former book editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland who has been a vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle.  It makes for interesting reading.  I understand the argument (in brief: Since Small illust...Read More