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Q & A with Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Author/illustrator Laura Vacarro Seeger's latest work, Bully, introduces a bull who begins bullying other animals after being picked on by a larger bull, and eventually repents.
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Obituary: Marc Simont
Children's book illustrator Marc Simont, whose signature fluid-lined works graced close to 100 books, died on July 13 at his home in Cornwall, Conn. He was 97.
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Trilogies: Veronica Rossi
I've killed off my share of characters, but I've never had to cut them from the books entirely. I think the latter might actually be harder.
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Trilogies: Rae Carson
Ah, that ultimate prize, that apex of achievement known as the multi-book contract!
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Trilogies: Marie Lu
I remember my original synopsis for the third book was horribly vague. “It’s a dark and stormy night. Bad things happen. The plot thickens. Love. Sacrifice. Will they make it out alive? Stay tuned!”
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Trilogies: Kerstin Gier
I have a big chalkboard where I draft my plots. I have piles of paper with notes in colored pencils, index cards in any shade imaginable. When I started with this project, my office looked like a kindergarten.
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Trilogies: Julie Cross
In Tempest, so much was cut. I was on a huge learning curve at that point and the more I cut, the better it got.
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Trilogies: Ilsa J. Bick
I had this really fabulous dog-sled scene I was going to integrate into the last book. Even learned how to mush.
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Trilogies: Gabrielle Zevin
The three titles of the series form a sentence that is also a synopsis: All these things I've done/because it is my blood/in the age of love and chocolate.
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Trilogies: Gennifer Choldenko
I have a "bible" that helps me remember each character's birthday and eye color, a master calendar of scenes, and posters full of old Alcatraz photos, but the most incredible method I have for keeping track is a rock in the middle of the San Francisco Bay.
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Ending a Trilogy
Writing—or editing—a trilogy is not for the faint of heart.
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Questioning 'Reality': A.S. King
The Printz Honor-winner's fifth novel, Reality Boy, looks at the unwitting stars of unscripted television – the children whose family lives are broadcast to the world.
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Gobsmacked!
I was Roald Dahl's editor from about 1981 to 1987: at the time I was president and publisher at Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers.
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When Books Get Noisy
This past October my family and I moved to a small coastal town in Maine, not far from E.B. White’s home in North Brooklin.
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Trilogies: Neal Shusterman
I thought UnSouled would come in at around 400 pages, but it took 650 pages, and even then I felt like I was rushing the conclusion, so I asked my editor and publisher if I could divide it again.
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Obituary: Barbara Robinson
Author Barbara Robinson, who introduced the rambunctious Herdman family in her bestseller The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, died on July 9. She was 85.
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Spring 2013 Flying Starts
Six authors and illustrators with notable spring debuts.
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Spring 2013 Flying Starts: Tim Federle
Tim Federle's parents took him to see Cats when he was nine years old.
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Spring 2013 Flying Starts: Adina Rishe Gewirtz
When Adina Rishe Gewirtz was 12, she had what she calls a "life-changing" experience: she read Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Spring 2013 Flying Starts: Leila Howland
The road to publication for Leila Howland's YA debut, Nantucket Blue —about a girl who, while working as a chambermaid one summer, falls in love with her best friend's younger brother—was almost 15 years in the making.
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