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I'M BORED named a Children's Notable Book Of 2012 by The New York Times Sunday Book Review

By Debbie Ridpath Ohi - February 5, 2013

The New York Times Sunday Book Review listed I'M BORED in its list, Notable Children's Books Of 2012: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/books/review/notable-childrens-books-of-2012.html

Starting Over and Over and Over

By Marion Dane Bauer - January 30, 2013

Perhaps it's a curse, this business of putting your thoughts out there for other folks to see. When you do your mulling silently inside your own head you can allow yourself to forget what you said to yourself. When you publish your thoughts, even on so ethereal medium as the Internet, they have a way of hanging around. On New Year's Day I talked about starting over. I talked,...

Amy's View

By Amy Hill Hearth - January 30, 2013

Heading for Jefferson, Texas, hometown of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club, the largest meeting-and-discussing book club in the world with more than 550 chapters! January 17-20 is "Girlfriend" weekend, and I'll be joining 38 other authors in a series of panels, booksignings and events attended by fans who come to Jefferson from all over the world. I am so honored that "Miss...

Trinidad book launch for "The Man who Turned both Cheeks"

By Gillian Royes - January 30, 2013

Trinidad is one of my favorite countries, and Carnival in Trinidad is definitely one of the greatest shows on earth, full of spectacle and color and pure glamor! What better time to hold a book launch, then, but a few days after Carnival when folks are wondering what to do next? That's why my Trinidadian launch will be held on Saturday, February 16, at The Reader's Bookshop in...

Book Giveaway--three copies of Atria hardcover of IN THE CONVENT OF LITTLE FLOWERS

By Indu Sundaresan - January 30, 2013

I'm giving away three copies of the Atria Books hardcover of IN THE CONVENT OF LITTLE FLOWERS. You can enter (only) via my Facebook Page. Search for 'Indu Sundaresan Facebook,' and for the NOTES section, or the wall post for January 14th for details on how to enter, etc.

Starred Review in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

By Erin Hart - January 24, 2013

The Book of KillowenErin Hart. Scribner, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4516-3484-6Hart combines powerful insights into human nature and pristine prose with history and archeology in her stellar fourth crime novel featuring Irish archeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin (after 2010’s False Mermaid). When the bog-preserved but dismembered and stabbed body of a...

Is Remembering Enough?

By Marion Dane Bauer - January 23, 2013

Every time I happen across a children's television program where adult actors are pretending to be children I am grateful that those of us who write for young people are permitted to appear in the world in our adult clothes. We are even allowed to grow old! What we must do, however, to make the leap from our own world to those we serve is to remember what most adults prefer to...

What Did I Learn?

By Marion Dane Bauer - January 23, 2013

Last week I wrote about spending two weeks working on a Christmas picture book and coming up at the end with a story that didn't work, even though I loved much about it. Carol Brendler wrote with a question. She said, "I typically chalk up those weeks of writing that yield nothing to a learning experience. It doesn’t feel quite so wasted then. I wonder if you feel you...

Fun, Frivolous and Fantastic

By Carol Rivers - January 18, 2013

January celebrates the New Year with wonderfully fresh fashions at London’s Fashion Week. We are treated to fun, frivolous, fantastic creations to light up the darker days of winter. I like to compare some of the current designs to those eras I write about. From the early 1900’s to the 1960’s, the connections are quite amazing. In my last novel “A SISTER’S SHAME”, my...

How Do You Know?

By Marion Dane Bauer - January 16, 2013

“How do you know,” a reader asked, “when a picture book is right?” She was writing in response to my blog about my most recent failed attempt to write a Christmas picture book. In the blog I said that after two rather intense weeks of work, I had a picture book text that I loved, but even as I finished it I knew it didn't work. This reader came back to ask, reasonably...

"Miss Dreamsville" is on a roll!

By Amy Hill Hearth - January 11, 2013

Thrilled at the reception "Miss Dreamsville" is receiving from readers and reviewers! Philip K. Jason from the Southern Literary Review wrote: "One can feel the immense joy of Amy Hill Hearth's engagement in her first novel. It radiates through every scene and through every page. Sometimes, an exceptional writer finds an exceptional premise, and the result is a truly exceptional...

Stories to Transform Our Lives

By Carol Rivers - January 9, 2013

On December 19, 1843, Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ was published. The story is one of my favourites. Not just because of the seasonal plot line, heart-warming characters and cracking dialogue, but because the real essence of Christmas is conveyed with a delightful simplicity. The story is about a family and one wealthy but lonely and disillusioned man. We join...

A Surprising New Way of Writing

By Marion Dane Bauer - January 8, 2013

If necessity is the mother of invention, then perhaps disaster—even a relatively small one—is the mother of necessity. On a snowy Sunday, December 9th, I slipped on hidden ice, dislocated my elbow, and broke my rotator bone just below the elbow. That evening and in the days that followed I made a number of interesting discoveries. The first was that if you arrive at a...

CAPTURING ANGELS TO BE PUBLISHED IN PRINT IN THE UK

By V.C. Andrews - January 7, 2013

Capturing Angels will be released as a hard cover on April 15 in the UK and then as mass market this August in the UK!

Starting Over

By Marion Dane Bauer - January 3, 2013

Every morning, right around 6 a.m., I spring awake. I could stay in bed longer if I wanted to, but I'm done with sleep. I step across the hall to my study where there is just enough open space on the floor for my Pilates exercises and a bit of yoga. That done and my body beginning to unfurl, I settle in to meditate. Breathe. Breathe again. I'm not a particularly experienced...

A Happy Christmouse to All!

By Marion Dane Bauer - January 2, 2013

“We need a sweet Christmas story, and we know you can do sweet.” It was an editor on the phone, one I especially enjoy working with, and I found myself smiling. That the author of Killing Miss Kitty and Other Sins would be admired for her capacity to write sweet! I was charmed. So I wrote The Christmas Baby. It was sweet, and the book has been a success … probably in...

Writing into the "Golden Years"

By Marion Dane Bauer - December 12, 2012

The boy sat at his desk, his long legs splayed in front of him, his face twisted in disbelief. "What makes you think you can write for kids?" he asked. Well, no. He didn't say it quite that rudely, but that's exactly what he meant. He looked at the old lady standing in front of his high school class in creative writing—and I must have been twenty years younger then—and...

What about Branding?

By Marion Dane Bauer - December 12, 2012

Once you're published, you hear a lot these days about "branding," about getting settled into and known in a single genre. No one talked about branding when I came into the field forty years ago. But then my peers and I almost always started out under the guidance of a single editor, and that editor usually did his or her own shaping of our careers. If you succeeded with your...

Free at last!

By Gillian Royes - December 4, 2012

The elections are over and we all feel a release, even in the US territory of the Virgin Islands. The tension was almost unbearable, especially at the end, and everyone's prayer was that it would be over quickly. Not another 2000, Bush-Gore, hanging-chad debacle. Let's hope that the animosity that had started to crawl like scum over everything political will go away for...

ELLE Magazine's 2012 Nonfiction Book of the Year

By Terry Helwig - December 3, 2012

I am delighted that my memoir MOONLIGHT ON LINOLEUM is a 2012 Grand Prix Selection for ELLE Magazine's Nonfiction Book of the Year. Cloistered in my office writing (and re-writing) for the better part of two years, I hoped readers would identify with the universal themes of love, forgiveness, abandonment and redemption clothed in the particulars of my story and the lives of...

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