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Q & A with James Dashner
James Dashner is having a busy summer, with two new books coming out in the next month: The Kill Order, a prequel to his popular Maze Runner trilogy, for teen readers; and A Mutiny in Time, the debut of a new multi-platform, middle-grade series called Infinity Ring.
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YA Novelist Remembers Her Connection with Roald Dahl
Forty years ago, author April Henry, then 12 years old, decided to send one of her own short stories to the renowned Roald Dahl. Several months later, she received a typewritten postcard signed by Dahl himself.
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Q & A with Phillip Hoose
Phillip Hoose's latest work of nonfiction, Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, follows a red knot shorebird on his annual 18,600-mile roundtrip migration between Tierra del Fuego and the Canadian Arctic.
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Obituary: Sally Ride
Sally Ride, the esteemed scientist, professor, and author best known as the first U.S. woman sent into outer space, died of pancreatic cancer on July 23. She was 61. Ride co-authored seven books for children.
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Obituary: Margaret Mahy
Award-winning New Zealand author Margaret Mahy died July 23 in Christchurch following a brief illness. She was 76. Mahy won the Carnegie Medal for her first two novels, The Haunting and The Changeover, and she was presented the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006.
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Q & A with Kate and M. Sarah Klise
Sisters Kate and M. Sarah Klise, who have collaborated on 18 books, talk about their most recent picture book and why their sister act is still going strong.
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Obituary: Donald J. Sobol
Donald J. Sobol, creator of the popular Encyclopedia Brown mystery series as well as numerous titles for young adults, died on July 11. He was 87.
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Life After the Caldecott: Erin and Philip Stead
When your first book wins the Caldecott Medal, life tilts. Doors open. Everyone is your friend. It’s hard to know what to do next. So Erin Stead put the medal in a drawer and got back to work.
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Obituary: Else Holmelund Minarik
Else Holmelund Minarik, the acclaimed children’s book author best known for her Little Bear books for early readers, died on July 12 at her home in Sunset Beach, N.C., of complications from a recent heart attack. She was 91.
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Macmillan Kicks Off YA 'Fierce Reads' Initiative
Between June 5 and June 18, four debut YA authors crossed the country from California to New York as part of a group tour launching Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group’s Fierce Reads national marketing campaign.
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J.K. Rowling's 'The Casual Vacancy' Cover Reveal
The Casual Vacancy, publishing worldwide in English on September 27, has a confirmed page count of 512 pages and a release from Little, Brown called it "a big novel about a small town."
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Spring 2012 Flying Starts: Debut Children's and YA Authors
Profiles of five new authors making a splash this season.
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Spring 2013 Flying Starts: Nicole Griffin
If you ask Nicole Griffin whether she always wanted to write YA books, she doesn't hesitate.
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Spring 2012 Flying Starts: Marissa Meyer
When Marissa Meyer decided to remake the popular fairy tale Cinderella, little did she know that she would soon be living out her own fairy tale. Cinder (Feiwel and Friends), a dystopian, sci-fi young adult novel about an outcast cyborg who unwisely falls for a handsome prince and winds up at the center of an interplanetary war, was released in early January and soon found a place on bestseller lists.
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Spring 2012 Flying Starts: emily m. danforth
No, that’s not a typo: emily m. danforth does not capitalize her name. “But not for interesting theoretical or political reasons,” she says. “I just like the way that it looks, and I’ve done it ever since high school.” She’s happy to see her name any way people want to style it, though, most especially on the cover of her debut novel, The Miseducation of Cameron Post (HarperCollins/Balzer & Bray).
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Spring 2012 Flying Starts: Christopher Healy
Like so many little girls, Christopher Healy’s daughter went through a “heavy princess phase” a few years back. Healy, then a freelance magazine writer, discussed what he termed parental “princess fatigue” in an essay for Salon.com. And while he would often commiserate with other parents who were troubled by archetypical images of passive princesses, he was also perturbed by the vacuous nature of Prince Charming in fairy tales like Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, and Cinderella. “He’s so inconsequential,” Healy says. “He’s presented as the ideal man, but he has no personality.” If princesses are going to fall in love with princes, he continues, then “shouldn’t we care about who these men are?”
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Spring 2012 Flying Starts: Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo’s path to publication took a few twists and turns before her first book, Shadow and Bone (Holt), finally hit the shelves. Born in Jerusalem and raised in Los Angeles, Bardugo graduated from Yale with a degree in English. From there, she worked in journalism and copywriting, including some time spent crafting movie trailers. However, writing was her dream. “I’d always wanted to be a writer. Come hell or high water, I’d finish a book.”
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Spring 2012 Flying Starts: Caroline Starr Rose
In 2009, with nearly a dozen unpublished manuscripts, stacks of rejections, and no leads, Caroline Starr Rose seized what she terms a “you only live once” conviction and quit her job teaching middle-school social studies to write full-time. Her husband, a Presbyterian minister, and two sons, now nine and 11, cheered her along, and four months later Rose completed the manuscript for May B. (Random/Schwartz & Wade, Jan.), a historical novel in verse set in the 19th-century, about a 12-year-old girl left to fend for herself during a brutal Kansas winter. She quickly secured an agent, Michelle Humphrey at the Martha Kaplan Agency, and in another four months she had a book deal.
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A "Breathless" Retreat
The writer's life can be a solitary one, so when Andrea Cremer proposed that she and her fellow YA authors on Penguin's most recent Breathless Reads promotional tour – Beth Revis, Jessica Spotswood, and Marie Lu – reconvene at Cremer's parents' lakeside home in Minnesota for a post-tour writing retreat, they were determined to make it happen.
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Mother & Daughter Coauthors: Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer Talk to PW
Can an author who has sold millions of books learn from her daughter about writing? For the mother-daughter author team of Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer, writing Between the Lines was enlightening for each in different ways.
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