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June 24, 2018
Author Spotlight: Darcy Miller Talks About Margot and Mateo Save the World
Today I’m
shining the Author Spotlight on Darcy Miller and her middle grade novel MARGOT AND MATEO SAVE THE WORLD.
Title: Margot and Mateo Save the World
Genre: Middle Grade Science Fiction
Age Range: 8-12
Launch Date: July 3, 2018
Please tell us a little bit about your book.
In Margot and Mateo two, unlikely middle school friends race to save the world from an alien slug invasion! It contains, among other things: a mysterious beached whale, a bumbling scientist, an ill-fated middle s...
June 10, 2018
Middle Grade Book Love: The Frame-Up
One very cool thing about having writer friends is that you get to read their new books before they are released into the world – which is how I got a sneak peek at Wendy McLeod MacKnight’s latest middle grade mystery, THE FRAME-UP.
I was lucky enough to befriend Wendy last year, as we navigated the debut author world together. I interviewed her then about her novel, IT’S A MYSTERY PIG-FACE, and got to interview her again last month over at the From the Mixed-Up Files of Middle Grade Authors...
May 3, 2018
KIT won an Oregon Book Award!
Winner winner, avocado-toast dinner!! (It was Portland after all).
THE TRAGICALLY TRUE ADVENTURES OF KIT DONOVAN won an Oregon Book Award! Specifically the ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE. (Want to learn more about Eloise Jarvis McGraw?Just click here).
I’m still stunned, but mostly I’m incredibly grateful.
The day to day of writing is mostly a solitary thing, but the the job of getting a book out into the world requires a lot of support. I’m so grateful for my friends, m...
April 22, 2018
Author Spotlight: Adrienne Young Talks About Sky in the Deep
Today I’m
shining the Author Spotlight on Adrienne Young and her debut novel SKY IN THE DEEP.
Title: SKY IN THE DEEP
Genre: YA Fantasy
Age Range: 14+
Launch Date: April 24, 2018
Please tell us a little bit about your book.
Sky in the Deep is the story of a young warrior named Eelyn who was raised to fight in a generations-old rivalry against an enemy clan. But in the midst of battle, she sees her brother fighting alongside the enemy – the brother she watched die five years ago. The sto...
April 8, 2018
Author Spotlight: Shaila Patel Talks About Fighting Fate
Today I’m
shining the Author Spotlight on Shaila Patel and her latest novel Fighting Fate.
Title: FIGHTING FATE (Book 2 in the Joining of Souls series)
Genre: YA Paranormal Romance
Age Range: 14+
Launch Date: April 5, 2018
FIGHTING FATE, Book 2 in the Joining of Souls series is a YA paranormal romance novel. How did you capture the feeling and mood of falling in love?
Mostly by pulling from my own teenage memories and those of my friends—both good and bad—and dramatizing them to captu...
March 25, 2018
Middle Grade Book Love: The Last Great Adventure of the PB and J Society
I’m celebrating my birthday week by highlighting a great friend and a great book! (Bonus, this friend also shares a birthday month with me. Yay fellow Aries!) I read THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE OF THE PB AND J SOCIETY shortly after meeting Janet, and I knew immediately we were destined to by friends. She’s smart, funny, and thoughtful in all the best ways – and so is her book!
When her best friend’s house is threatened with foreclosure, young Annie Jenkins is full of ideas to save the home: sell...
March 12, 2018
A Roundup of My Posts at From the Mixed Up Files
If you hang out with me on social media you know I’ve been busy writing posts for the From The Mixed Up Files of Middle Grade Authors blog the last few weeks. (If you’re not hanging out with me, please, come on over and connect). It’s always fun to see my posts up on other sites, and even more fun to share them again on mine. With that in mind, I thought I’d do a little round up here on the blog in case you missed them.
The first post involved me nerding out to space exploration and Elon Musk...
February 25, 2018
Author Spotlight: Sarah Nicole Smetana Talks About The Midnights
It’s a brand new year in YA and Children’s Literature – which means it’s time to pass the debut author gauntlet to a new group of writers. It’s a pleasure to welcome the Class of 2k18 and their debut novels into the world this year, and I’m extra pleased to get to feature some of them on my blog.
Today I’m
shining the Author Spotlight on Sarah Nicole Smetana and her debut novel THE MIDNIGHTS
Title: THE MIDNIGHTS
Genre: Contemporary YA
Age Range: 14+
Launch Date: March 6, 2018
Please tel...
February 11, 2018
I’m an Oregon Book Awards Finalist!
I’m beyond thrilled to see my book on the list of finalists for this year’s Oregon Book Awards!
Five years ago, when I was trying hard to do the things I thought real writers did, I submitted 25 pages of a manuscript I was working on to the Oregon Literary Arts fellowship program on a whim. Miraculously, I was awarded the Edna L. Holmes Fellowship in Young Readers Literature. I used the monetary gift they so generously presented me to attend a retreat that helped me shape that manuscript int...
January 28, 2018
I Wrote a Picture Book!!
About two months ago I had a flash of an idea. One of those flashes that come unbidden and out of nowhere and demand you pay attention to them. So I paid attention because I learned long ago that these flashes are gifts – from the universe or the muse or just some part of the unconscious that’s particularly tuned in at that moment – I really don’t know. But I do know that they always lead somewhere interesting. This time the flash led me to do something I never thought I’d do: I wrote a pict...
