Notes from the Horn Book, a free online newsletter, has an interesting interview with Jon Scieszka which will resonate with any body who reads and tries to encourage others to do so.
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Crichoux, over at Bookwyrm Chrysalis, has a link to this NY Times article about James Patterson complaining that he wants his children’s books at front of store because they get lost in the children’s section. He wants parents, or at least from the article mothers / women, to pick up his kind of book for [...]
Scott Westerfeld is asking for help on Tally’s World, his guide to his Uglies series which was announced on his blog (though it seems to have a slight glitch at the time of writing). He’s trying to get :
1) Slang terms you want defined.
2) Cliques you remember from the books.
To avoid too much repetition, he [...]
PS Publishing have announced that the entire text of Jeff Vandermeer’s new novellete, The Situation, is now available for free download before the book itself appears in three weeks’ time via www.pspublishing.co.uk/thesituation. The story is about a surrealist corporate hell.
PS will be looking to see how this does in the scheme of things to see [...]