I had great intentions this year to post quarterly status reports on my query stats, but I seem to have missed a quarter (here’s April and July, at least). A quick recap: in the first three months of 2010, I saw 1,297 queries and requested 20 partials, passing on all […]
Operation Redwood
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Before I head off to BEA and the possibility of less-than-daily posting, I wanted to share some recent news you may have missed. Shall we? Matthew Cody announced the title for his brilliant new middle grade novel — stay tuned for THE DEAD GENTLEMAN, coming to stores near you in […]
Congrats to S. Terrell French and the fabulous people at Amulet — Operation Redwood just won the 2010 National Green Earth Book Award for Children’s Fiction! Following is the press release: The 2010 Newton Marasco Foundation (NMF) Annual Green Earth Book Award winners reinforce the importance of environmental stewardship to […]
Just got some great news about S. Terrell French‘s Operation Redwood! First, from Daily Kos, which prefaces their list thusly: Best-seller lists, the air waves, oped pages, and blog posts have been filled with Steven Levitt’s and Steven Dubner’s shallow,truthiness-laden Superfreakonomics. […] There are, essentially, innumerable works more worthy of […]
So, needless to say, I didn’t quite manage to set up the automatic posts I’d hoped to do. But I have been collecting some exciting links to share, now with more gremlins! (I got tired of posting pictures of chain links.) An interview with S. Terrell French is up on […]
If a book doesn’t spring to the top of the bestseller list when it’s released, is it over? Maybe for folks like Dan Brown (as if!) but not for children’s books, which can grow and grow and grow — both in sales and in attention. For instance, check out this […]
I love Betsy Bird. Not only for her insightful, entertaining blog, Fuse #8, not only for her co-sponsorship of Kidlit Nights Drinks across the country, but also for this amazing, erudite, overwhelmingly positive review of S. Terrell French‘s debut Operation Redwood: I wonder if contemporary children’s authors ever look at […]
Gah! I have so much good news to share, but which I can’t talk about yet, that I might EXPLODE! It’s been a wild, crazy couple of weeks, and I expect fall is going to be one of flying colors — if I can just keep my head from exploding […]
Why yes, I DID take Friday off for a long holiday weekend, thanks for noticing! But I’m sure you were all way to busy with your Writing Prompts to really care, right? Don’t forget, you have until 12 midnight, mountain time today to add your hook and your link to […]