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Month: July 2013

  • This Week on Girls Scouts’ The Studio: Caldecott Honor Winner Peter Brown

    “A career in the arts is not easy. But it is so rewarding. My advice is to give yourself the best possible chance of succeeding, and the only way to …

  • John Green Fan Creates a Nerdfighter Documentary

    “By the end of April I had two videographers (Kayla Sprayue and Paul Weller) and a faculty advisor (Sonny Wingler) on board! I created a website and social media pages. …

  • Andrea Davis Pinkney & Shane Evans to Collaborate on a Middle Grade Novel

    The story is about “a young refugee [who] finds hope and inspiration in learning to write and expressing herself through art. The middle-grade title was inspired by true events in …

  • Shelley Diaz: How I Got into Publishing

    Guest post by associate editor at School Library Journal

    I decided I wanted to work in children’s publishing in sixth grade. I had devoured all of the Anne of Green Gables books by this time, and I was convinced that I could be the Dominican Lucy Maud Montgomery. I kept writing through middle school and high school, and pondered over different career paths (should I be a literary agent, an editor?), and even momentarily thought about being a cultural anthropologist instead.

    The fact remained: I was fascinated by stories—all people’s stories.

    I declared my English Lit/Latino Studies double-major freshman year at Columbia University, and was lucky enough to snag an editorial internship with Dell Publishing (a crossword puzzle publisher) through my Hispanic Scholarship Fund mentor. That summer internship cemented my desire to work in publishing, while at the same time reinforced the fact that it had to be with work that I cared about (crossword puzzles, were just not that interesting), and at a place that gave me the opportunity to advocate for diverse literature.
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  • Kiera Cass Announces a New Selection Novella Entitled The Guard

    HarperCollins plans to also publish The Selection Stories in print format on the same date. This book will contain The Prince (a novella released back in March 5, 2013), The …

  • Shannon Messenger Pens a New Novel Called ‘Let the Storms Break’

    “Vane Weston is haunted. By the searing pull of his bond to Audra. By the lies he’s told to cover for her disappearance. By the treacherous winds that slip into …

  • Nominations Open for the 2013 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK – Nominations opened at American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago for the 2013 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My …

  • Filming is Under Way for ‘The Maze Runner’ Movie Adaptation

    Wes Ball is serving as the director for this project. Dylan O’Brien is the actor portraying lead protagonist, Thomas. Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, published James …

  • Author Ruta Sepetys Awarded Lithuania’s ‘Cross of the Knight’ for Contributions in Education & Culture

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Author Ruta Sepetys was decorated with Lithuania’s ‘Cross of the Knight of the Order’ by the President of Lithuania in a formal ceremony last weekend at the nation’s …

  • Brenton Thwaites to Play Jonas in ‘The Giver’ Movie

    “Aged up from the book, the Jonas character is selected to become the next Receiver of Memory in the heavily ordered and seemingly perfect society. He bonds with the previous …

  • Bruce Coville Signs a 4-Book Deal with Random House Children’s Books

    The first title, a middle-grade novel entitled Diary of a Mad Brownie, is scheduled to be released in the Spring 2015 season. The story stars a young girl named Jamie …

  • This Week on Girls Scouts’ The Studio: Author Natalie Yoder

    “I think that I got my love for writing from my dad. He has always kept me on the right path and made me realize that writing was a good …

  • Nintendo 3DS to Feature eReader System

    In an effort “to bring their numbers up, Nintendo is once again exploring new markets. Right now, they’ve got their eyes set on the growing eBook market. In 2012 Japan’s …

  • Simon & Schuster Releases the ‘Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale’ Digital Short Story

    The story for the third short story follows “immortal warlock Magnus Bane [who] attends preliminary peace talks between the Shadowhunters and the Downworlders in Victorian London, he is charmed by …

  • Fiona Paul Pens ‘Belladonna’

    Philomel, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, will release the second installment on July 16, 2013. This book picks up where the first novel, Venom, left off. Paper Lantern …

  • Andrew Smith Pens ‘Grasshopper Jungle’

    This coming-of-age story is set in a small town in Iowa. It follows a sixteen-year-old boy named Austin, his best friend Robby, and “the rise of an army of unstoppable, …

  • Elizabeth Ross On Writing Historical Fiction YA

    “To write a historical novel, the writer’s task is to make history breathe, to make it feel tangible—it’s a feat of world building. In researching Belle Epoque, I brought history …

  • “White Publishing”

    There’s a unique fear that I experience as an editor--which I imagine other editors experience as well--after reading a manuscript by and about a minority group I know too little about.

    For example, I’m a Persian male who was born in Iran, and raised all over Europe, and then Oklahoma. So if you send me FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, man, I am in it. I lived that experience. Maybe not exactly as Boobie Miles lived it. But I played ball in Oklahoma. I get the lingo. My first manuscript was the story of that experience.

    In the same way, if you write a novel set in Rome, if you want to sample some Farsi for a character, or French, then I’m good. I’m still with you. I have firsthand knowledge of the languages, the cultural nuances, etc.
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  • Harry Potter Fans Reveal New Cover for ‘Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix’ by Award-Winning Illustrator Kazu Kibuishi

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New trade paperbacks and boxed set with covers by Kibuishi will be released on August 27, 2013. New York, NY (July 1, 2013) — Fans of Harry Potter …

  • Alan Snow’s ‘Here Be Monsters!’ Adapted as a Stop-Motion Animated Film

    Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi are teaming up as directors for this stop-motion animated movie project. The cast of voice actors include Elle Fanning, Simon Pegg, Ben Kingsley, Toni Collette, …

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