The Chosen One
I got this ARC a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve been holding onto it because I knew from going to Carol’s reading that it would make me bawl. I had to be ready for that, and busy as I’ve …
Author: Stacy
Stacy Whitman is the publisher of Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books. She specializes in fantasy, mystery, and science fiction for children and young adults.
New seminar: Worldbuilding in MG/YA science fiction and fantasy
I have a confirmed date, time, and place for our next local seminar on writing fantasy for children and young adults. This time we’re going to focus specifically on worldbuilding–how it’s different for younger audiences (and how it’s the same …
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On e-books, the distribution chain, the Amazonian monster, and all that other fun stuff
Over at Booksquare last week Kassia had an excellent post on what consumers are looking for in the pricing of ebooks, in which she took a devil’s advocate role in saying that perhaps it’s good that Amazon is creating this …
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Ramblings when I should be off reading the Maze Runner ARC or sleeping
Not really much to post about. I had a great time at Conduit seeing friends and talking books. Very nice Schlock Mercenary launch party, for which I dropped in and took some pictures. I’ll be downloading those straight to Sandra, …
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Provo Book Festival (& other recent events, including a reading cat)
Well, now that I’ve gotten my camera back up (I killed the battery Saturday, forgetting to upload the pictures while it was still hooked up for hours, and now I’ve finally gotten back to it), I will share with you some of the fun things that happened at the Provo Book Festival. I was really impressed. This was the first time I’ve been to it, though I’ve heard good things about it for a few years, and I must say, it was really cool to see how the kids who came were so excited to get involved with books, to see their favorite authors speak, and to be able to get books signed by them. There had to have been twenty or so local authors involved, and several illustrators as well.
3-chapter critique catch-up
I’m catching up on a multitude of 3-chapter critiques and one novel critique this week that I’ve owed to people for a few weeks now. If you’re one of the people waiting on me to get back to you for …
And now for something completely different: cat yodeling
From the engineers who brought you The Engineer’s Guide to Cats:
Related to the last post
I can’t remember who linked this, but the winner of the Media Matters Film Festival, Slip of the Tongue, is awesomely relevant to both racial and gender issues. I can’t embed it here, so you’ll have to go to the …
Portraying people of color in children’s/YA fantasy–are we anywhere near “there” yet?
3/21/2012, ETA: Because this post has been linked a lot over the course of the last several months, I just wanted to point out that this was posted when I was in the process of starting the small press that …
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