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A gossip queen dissecting politics? A political pundit musing about sports? A romance novelist waxing poetic on music? You read it here first... see what your favorite literary personalities have to say about life beyond books.

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BRUCE and the Springsteen Symposium at Monmouth University

By Peter Ames Carlin - September 19, 2012

Oh lord, this Simon & Schuster blog tool -- so cruel, so whimsical, a techno-fascist of the highest regard -- just deleted this big blog entry I wrote. It's a long and gruesome story, and of course I had a hand in the cock-up myself, which only makes it worse, so argh.Whatever, let's start the BRUCE blogging here with a bulletin about the preview reading I'll be doing at...

Writer’s Block?

By Marion Dane Bauer - September 12, 2012

On page 161 I discovered that I had forgotten how to write a novel. It's happened before. I'm moving along at a fairly steady pace and suddenly . . . what's that? A brick wall? And what's my nose doing pressed up against it? The popular term for the experience is "writer's block." Even grade-school children have heard of it and consider it a serious disability. "Do...

A New Teaching Opportunity

By Marion Dane Bauer - September 10, 2012

I'll be teaching two on-line sessions with Writing for Children Live this month. One, on "The Basics of Writing Successful Picture Books" will be on Wednesday, September 19th, at 7 p.m. EDT. The second will be a webinar entitled "Point of View and Psychic Distance in Fiction for Young People." That will be presented on the next Wednesday, September 26th, 7 p.m. EDT. You can...

Bouncing Around the Blogosphere

By Jeannie Mobley - September 6, 2012

The Big Bodacious Blog Tour has begun. Okay, so maybe it’s not that big. And maybe nobody has used the word “bodacious” since sometime in the mid ’80s. Whatever. The point is, I have blog appearances lined up, some of which have already happened, and some that are coming up! So keep checking in, and I will keep adding in the links as they appear! And thank you, to all...

Taking Back Your Power

By Trudi Trueit - September 5, 2012

I love chatting about my life outside of writing here, but since today is launch day for my new tween novel, Stealing Popular, I thought I'd deviate and share a bit about the book. The story revolves around 12 year-old Coco Sherwood, a Navy brat who’s seen the inside of many schools in a short amount of time. She notices that at each school she attends the social pattern...

By Amy Hill Hearth - September 4, 2012

I'm delighted that Simon & Schuster is producing a digital audio edition of my first novel, Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society, read by yours truly. I loved working with producer and director Tara M. Thomas and sound engineer and producer Erica Glyn! The audio will be released the same day (October 2) as the Atria trade paperback original and S...

Learning to Write, Then and Now

By Marion Dane Bauer - August 29, 2012

When I first mentioned the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts in this blog, I said that when I was invited to teach there I was skeptical. I had learned how to write without any such program. I had come to be published without even a meaningful creative writing class or a mentor. As a University student, I took a couple of...

Lists, and more Lists!

By Jeannie Mobley - August 27, 2012

Things have been happening in this last week before my release. The fall books are coming out from all the publishing houses right now. It is an exciting time for readers, but a little scary for authors; it is so easy to get lost in the shuffle. I have been fortunate enough to have KATERINA’S WISH appear on FOUR wonderful lists in the last few weeks! First, KIRKUS REVIEWS was...

Memoir Can Read Like a Novel

By Terry Helwig - August 22, 2012

A comment I love hearing about Moonlight on Linoleum, is: "Your memoir reads like a novel." This comparison to literary fiction affirms the countless hours I spent constructing floor plans of our trailer house, perusing old photographs with a magnifying glass, locating marriage certificates and divorce decrees, interviewing relatives and friends, and creating an elaborate...

2...1...0...WE HAVE LIFT OFF!

By Jeannie Mobley - August 21, 2012

I'm so exciting to see my book, KATERINA'S WISH finally launching from the wonderful launch pad of Margaret K. McElderry Books here at Simon and Schuster. In celebration of this event, my blogging friends are throwing me a LAUNCH PARTY over at the EMU's Debuts blog from August 20-24! There will be interviews, a virtual reading, experiments with cooking, a book give-away, and at...

My podcasts are now available on iTunes

By Joshua Graham - August 20, 2012

Interviews, music, and other such podcasts are now available on iTunes: http://bit.ly/KMrvTj

My latest, THE GIANT BOOK OF DOG NAMES, comes out October 9th!!!

By Laurie Bogart Morrow - August 16, 2012

I'm so excited that my newest book, THE GIANT BOOK OF DOG NAMES, and my first with Simon and Schuster, is coming out on October 9th! It was a joy to write and I'm so anxious to tell you all about it. The proof copy just arrived and I've got to tell you, as an author, it's a long road from the time you first put pen to paper to the time your manuscript goes through the labor...

By Marion Dane Bauer - August 15, 2012

I have recently returned from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier where I received an honorary MFA in Writing. I'm not sure what one does with such a thing, but receiving it was a profound honor. From the time I was very young I knew I wanted to write stories. What kind of stories I didn't know, just stories. One day in college I happened to write a single paragraph for...

The Adult Narrator in a Children’s Story

By Marion Dane Bauer - August 8, 2012

Last week I quoted Dallas Bradel and her support for my call to keep adults more present in stories for young people. I agreed, of course, with all she said. But she had more to offer, and this is the way she continued her very articulate argument: I applaud your understanding of the importance of supportive, likeable adults in the lives of your protagonists. In Little Dog,...

On Excluding Adults

By Marion Dane Bauer - August 6, 2012

I've received more responses on the topic I wrote about last week—the practice of excluding adults from stories for young people—than any other I've taken on, so I'm going to stay with the topic for a couple of weeks. One young mother, Meghan Gordon, responded this way: Adam and I have been thinking about this issue recently. Several weeks ago, our 7 year old son decided to...

Another Reader’s Perspective

By Marion Dane Bauer - August 6, 2012

I've been sharing my readers' responses to my July 10th blog about excluding adults from our stories. Here's a response from Dallas Bradel: It may seem as if an author is empowering children by communicating that kids can solve their own problems, but I believe these authors, however well-meaning, are doing a disservice to their readers. Children need, and need to recognize...

By Marion Dane Bauer - August 6, 2012

In 1976 when I published my first middle-grade novel, the lines were clearly drawn. If you wrote for young people, you had to be on their side, because there were clearly sides. Adults were on one. Kids were on the other. And though it's trite to say it, the twain did very little meeting. Adults, it was assumed, were to be banished from juvenile literature, or if they were...

The Pendulum’s Swing

By Marion Dane Bauer - August 6, 2012

I mentioned last week that I’ve received a number of interesting comments on my blog on July 10th concerning the long-standing practice of excluding adults from kids’ stories. Here is one by Moira M: I remember when writing teachers would state, as a rule, that children did not want adults in their books. One of the things I love about Carl Hiaasen’s books for young people...

By Amy Hill Hearth - July 31, 2012

Getting closer to publication date! October 2 seemed very far away but now it's right around the corner. I am thrilled about my upcoming book tour for Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society. My tour so far includes appearances in Nashville, Raleigh, Tampa, Naples, Greenville SC, Lexington KY, Jefferson TX, and more! For details, please visit...

Come Fly With Me ... If You Dare!

By Trudi Trueit - July 23, 2012

I long to visit faraway places. Some I have written about in my fiction and nonfiction books and others I just want to see – like Scotland. I want to see Scotland. Yet, as much as I love travel, sadly, travel does not seem to have those same fuzzy feelings for me. Weird things happen to me when I leave home. Okay, bad things. It started with sixth-grade camp when, just a few...

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