Darren Shan's October newsletter includes a link to a new and impressive microsite which has been established to help market Book 12 of the saga...
Shan embarks on a major month-long promotional tour on October 2nd - dates and venues are included in the newsletter.
Publishing News reports that Sarah Odedina of Bloomsbury Children's Books has sealed a six-figure two-book deal with Pearl Morrison, a debut author, whose first book, The Wind Tamer, is scheduled for Spring next year.
BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Children's picture books
Ritula Shah talks to The Gruffalo?s author, Julia Donaldson and to the Guardian?s Children?s book editor Julia Eccleshare about what makes an enduring and popular picture book.
Has a 'Listen to this item' link.
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Authors & Illustrators for Children
More than 300 (and rising) published US children?s authors and illustrators ? including Judy Blume and Maurice Sendak ? are joining forces to place ads in swing states in support of John Kerry.
The print ads, with a child?s face behind hundreds of author and illustrator names, are headlined ?We Create Children?s Books Because We Care About Children?That?s Why We?re Voting For John Kerry.?
Among the award-winning authors and illustrators are:
Maurice Sendak (WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE)
Judy Blume (ARE YOU THERE GOD, IT?S ME, MARGARET)
Louis Sachar (HOLES)
Sid Fleischman (THE WHIPPING BOY)
Patricia MacLachlan (SARAH PLAIN AND TALL)
Avi (THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE)
Joanna Cole (THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS series)
Eve Bunting (SMOKY NIGHT)
Chris Crutcher (WHALE TALK)
Tomie dePaola (STREGA NONA)
Crescent Dragonwagon (HALF A MOON AND ONE WHOLE STAR)
Jack Gantos (The ROTTEN RALPH series)
Mordecai Gerstein (THE MAN WHO WALKED BETWEEN THE TOWERS)
Nikki Grimes (BRONX MASQUERADE)
Bruce Coville (MY TEACHER IS AN ALIEN)
James Howe (BUNNICULA)
Gail Carson Levine (ELLA ENCHANTED)
Emily Arnold McCully (MIRETTE ON THE HIGH WIRE)
Barry Moser (ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND)
Linda Sue Park (A SINGLE SHARD)
Brian Selznick (THE DINOSAURS OF WATERHOUSE HAWKINS)
Laurence Yep (DRAGONWINGS)
Jane Yolen (OWL MOON)
Charlotte Zolotow (THE SEASHORE BOOK)
Simpsons writer, Mike Reiss, complains that the ending to his latest children's book, The Boy Who Looked Like Lincoln, is being misconstrued...
...to my utter amazement, my newest children's book has been branded "vulgar" and "obscene" by angry, readers who just don't get it.
Popular children's author Anthony Horowitz turned down the opportunity to write the new Young James Bond novels, according to a recent interview.
The interview referred to is from the Independent, back in August.
Sam Salmon, book collector, eBay dealer, entrepreneur and literary agent for the mysterious Harry Gallan, author of 'The Lexian Chronicles', has drawn attention to the similarities in content, but contrasts in publishing provenance, of his author's first book, Full Circle, and Michelle Paver's Wolf Brother.
According to Salmon there is both movie and comic book interest in Gallan, whose identity has to be closely guarded because of the nature of his full-time occupation. Two hundred signed and dated copies of Full Circle will form the centrepiece of a display in Harrods book department in a fortnight's time.
You can discover more about this item by reading Harry's Blog and related pages on the Markosia website.
The Australian: The prince of pulp fiction [September 20, 2004]
Excellent Australian feature interview with Elmore Leonard...
When I ask him at what age he had pitched his first children's book, A Coyote's in the House, which has just been published, he replies: "I thought children of 12, or even 10, because I probably write at a 5th or 6th-grade level anyway, in my use of words."
Highly recommended
Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Made in Britain
Malorie Blackman was just one of many writers of Caribbean, Asian and African descent gathered together for a group photo in London:
Looking at the writers in the picture you can see how this is the case. There is Lynton Kwesi Johnson, widely regarded as the father of dub poetry; Malorie Blackman, the highly successful children's author whose novel Noughts and Crosses was one of the books on the BBC's The Big Read Top 100 list; Ben Okri, who won the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road; Romesh Gunesekera, who was short-listed for the same prize with his novel Reef; Gary Younge and Maya Jaggi are well known for their thoughtful, intelligent journalism... ...
allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Stephen Alumenda's First Posthumous Book Out
KENYAN publisher East African Educational Publishers (EAEP) has released the first posthumous book by Stephen Alumenda, one of Zimbabwe's finest children's book authors, who died in a road accident in June....
Probably the most prolific children's book writer ever to emerge from Zimbabwe, Alumenda published 20 children's books and teenage novels in a career spanning just over a decade. He wrote with equal dexterity in both English and Shona and spared time to run skills training workshops for aspiring writers.
Roald Dahl Museum
Writer in Residence
?7,000 Fixed Fee for 4 Months
March 2005 - June 2005
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Over 6,500 copies of The Gruffalo's Child were sold in the UK in the four days since the book hit store shelves on September 1 and since then 3,000 have been snapped up each day -- propelling the story to No. 1 on the Children's Hardback fiction chart.
HarperCollins has acquired Eric Carle's latest book, 10 LITTLE RUBBER DUCKS, which will be published simultaneously in the UK, North America, Australia and New Zealand in February 2005.
10 LITTLE RUBBER DUCKS is based on the true story of the rubber ducks that fell overboard from a container ship en route from China to Seattle during a storm in 1992. These rubber ducks, carried by the ocean currents, have been washing up on shores all around the world.
Carle says, from his studio in Northampton, Massachusetts: "I am pleased that this book will be published around the world by HarperCollins, just as these ducks have travelled around the world on their long journey"
The Roald Dahl Museum website went live today...
The race is on!!!! - www.ezboard.com
Darren Shan sales are about to cross the million line in both the UK and US. But which will be first?
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Walking in a modern Wonderland
A piece about mixed responses to Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars. Whilst I wouldn't be as enthusiastic as John McClay, quoted in this article, I did enjoy the book. It should appeal to the type of reader who likes Artemis Fowl.
NEWS.com.au | Sneak look at new Harry Potter (September 4, 2004)
BESTSELLING children's author JK Rowling has given fans of her Harry Potter books a brief, but tantalising taste of the next in the series chronicling the boy wizard's adventures.Visitors to her website, www.jkrowling.com, were able to play an online game of darts, which, if accomplished successfully, revealed a picture of a safe on the page, Britain's Sun newspaper said today.
Those able to crack the safe's code were able to see two sentences from the as-yet unreleased sixth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
Mass coverage for book with $5m advance hopes:
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | ?2m advance for new children's author
As [Michelle Paver's] prehistoric adventure tale, Wolf Brother, reached the bookstands, it emerged that her total international advances were worth close to ?2m - "and that even allows for the dreadful dollar rate", said her rights director and publisher Fiona Kennedy.
See also this BBC page...
and this Australian page...
and this Scottish page...
