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Spring 2011 Flying Starts: Matthew Myers
All Matthew Myers had to do to get the attention of Writers House agent Steven Malk was send him a link to his Web site. ("Paintings so good you'd swear he's dead," the splash page says.) In another sense, though, he'd been preparing for the introduction for years.
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Spring 2011 Flying Starts: Thanhha Lai
When Thanhha (pronounced TANG-Ha) Lai decided to fictionalize the story of her own early life in Vietnam and immigration to Alabama after the war, she wrote her novel Inside Out & Back Again (HarperCollins) in six months. "It was shockingly easy to write," she recalls. "Because it is my story and I'd already been processing it for years and years."
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Q & A with Tomi Ungerer
Tomi Ungerer's name is instantly recognizable to those who grew up reading his books in the 1960s and '70s. But Ungerer's catalog was allowed to go out of print when his outspoken political views and ribald erotic drawings alarmed U.S. publishers.
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Read, Kiddo, Read: James Patterson
James Patterson, the bestselling author on Earth, doesn't want to talk about writing today. He wants to talk about reading. For a man with scores of blockbuster books under his belt (it might be north of 70, but even the author isn't sure how many he's written at this point), Patterson is now fascinated with a new challenge: hooking kids on books. And his latest effort, "Read, Kiddo, Read," aims to do just that.
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Q & A with Anthea Bell
Anthea Bell is a translator who has won many top awards, and whose work has appeared on many bestseller list, yet many outside of the publishing industry don’t know her name.
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Q & A with Elise Broach
Elise Broach follows her E.B. White Read Aloud winner, Masterpiece, with another kid-pleasing mystery, Missing on Superstition Mountain, the first in a trilogy set in the American southwest.
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Sandra Boynton Demonstrates App, Signs Books--and a Few Nooks
Monday night’s Sandra Boynton book event at the Barnes & Noble on Manhattan’s Upper East Side looked like a pretty normal book signing--normal for Boynton, the bestselling children’s book author, anyway. Toddlers and slightly older kids, some dressed in pajamas, crammed into the event space, shepherded in by college students wearing pajama pants and Boynton Moo Media t-shirts.
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Q & A with Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Author-illustrator team Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler have been topping the U.K. bestseller charts over the last decade and a half, with such titles as A Squash and a Squeeze, Room on the Broom, Tabby McTat, and, most famously, The Gruffalo, which recently added to its many honors when the animated movie based on the book was recently nominated for an Oscar.
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Q & A with Malinda Lo
Malinda Lo is the author of Ash and the just-released Huntress, both from Little, Brown. Lo will be crossing the country with Cindy Pon, author of Fury of the Phoenix, to celebrate the publication of their new novels.
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PW Select: Self-Published Children's Books Thrive in the Mainstream
Tales of self-published kids' books that have become backlist staples for trade houses are familiar publishing lore. Two are titles written by young readers themselves: Christopher Paolini's Eragon, first published by his family, then found a home with Knopf in 2003, and Alec Greven's How to Talk to Girls, which grew out of a school report and was picked up by Collins in 2008.
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PW Talks with Franny Billingsley
Franny Billingsley, a former bookseller, is the author of three much praised novels: Well Wished, The Folk Keeper, and, most recently, Chime. We spoke to the author about her two careers, her writing process, and her new novel.
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YA Author and Movie Producer Perry Moore Dies
Perry Moore, author, director and movie producer, died February 17 at his home in New York City. He was 39 and the cause of his death has not been determined.
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About Our Cover Artist
In less than a decade of illustrating children's books, Sophie Blackall has quickly amassed a substantial body of work and many accolades, most recently, the New York Times's Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2010 list.
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Lauren Myracle: 'This Generation's Judy Blume'
If a writer's potential to incite controversy could be gauged by her Web site, Lauren Myracle would not register as a candidate.
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Q & A with Casey Scieszka and Steven Weinberg
In 2006, recent college graduates Casey Scieszka and Steven Weinberg launched a year-and-a-half long international adventure, to Beijing, Shanghai, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Mali.
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Taking Flight with Maya Soetoro-Ng
At last month's Winter Institute, PW caught up with President Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Va. She was in town to meet with her editor, Karen Lotz, president and publisher of Candlewick Press, and to talk with booksellers about her forthcoming picture book, Ladder to the Moon, illustrated by Yuyi Morales.
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Brian Jacques, 1939-2011
Brian Jacques, author of the bestselling Redwall series, died after a heart attack on Saturday, February 5. He was 71. The Redwall fantasy series, set in a world populated with anthropomorphized animals, began in 1986 with Redwall, which was published in the U.S. by Philomel. Since, the series has been published in more than 20 countries and has sold more than 20 million copies.
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George Edward Stanley, 1942-2011
George Edward Stanley, author of more than 100 books for young people, died on Monday, February 7, after a ruptured aneurysm; he was 68. After writing and publishing over 200 short stories in American, British, Irish, and South African magazines, Stanley turned to writing books.
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Q & A with Dan Yaccarino
We spoke with Dan Yaccarino about his new picture book, All the Way to America, which traces his family’s history from Sorrento, Italy, to New York City.
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Q & A with Judy Blundell
With Strings Attached, Judy Blundell has to follow her own tough act: her first foray into YA, What I Saw and How I Lied, won the 2008 National Book Award. She spoke to PW about her inspiration, and why one of her 39 Clues collaborators may still not be speaking to her.
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