Kelly Bennett's Blog, page 85
July 10, 2013
VAMPIRE BABY is here!
Finally...5 years and 12 revisions and I-don't-even-want-to-try-to-count how many Vampire movies, books, blogs after that fabulous title popped into my head Vampire Baby has arrived! Thanks to all of you who laughed when I said the title.) Paul Meisel's art makes it! Available from Candlewick Press and booksellers everywhere!
Here's the blurb:
It happens overnight: "little sister Tootie goes from cuddly, ga-ga-goo-goo, I-want-my-ba-ba baby to...vampire baby." Now she’s sinking her pointy fangs into everything -- furniture, toys, and especially her big brother ("Youch, Tootie! No bite!"). Mom insists that it’s just a phase, but Tootie’s brother knows better. Just look at her hairline! Or the fact that all her favorite foods are bloodred! With perfect comic timing, Kelly Bennett and Paul Meisel give a fresh slant to the new-baby story, proving that even monstrous little arrivals have a funny way of staking their siblings’ affections.
When Tootie gets her first teeth, it’s clear to her big brother that she’s no ordinary baby. But how to convince Mom and Dad?
July 4, 2013
Rocking and Rambling
ONE DAY I WENT RAMBLING
is a finalist for the Writers' League of Texas Book Award!
For more on WLT click: http://www.writersleague.org/131/2013-Book-Awards-Contest-Finalists
The 2013 Writers' League of Texas Book Awards Finalists
*Winners will be announced on this page in early September.
FICTION
Along These Highways by Rene S. Perez
Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale by Lynda Rutledge
Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai by Barbara Lazar
Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Appearances: Stories by Jan Seale
NONFICTION
Floyd Patterson: The Fighting Life of Boxing's Invisible Champion by WK Stratton
Secret Sex Lives: A Year on the Fringes of American Sexuality by Suzy Spencer
Gated Grief: The Daughter of a GI Concentration Camp Liberator Discovers a Legacy of Trauma by Leila Levinson
My Boys and Girls Are in There: The 1937 New London School Explosion by Ron Rozelle
In the Shadow of the Carmens: Afield with a Naturalist in the Northern Mexican Mountains by Bonnie Reynolds McKinney
State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents by Don Graham
POETRY
Horse-Minded by Suzette Marie Bishop
Crane Creek, Two Voices by Vanessa Furse Jackson & Robb Jackson
Strange Light by Derrick C. Brown
Begging for Vultures by Lawrence Welsh
Jan Seale: New and Selected Poems by Jan Seale
MIDDLE GRADE & YOUNG ADULT NOVELS
Breaking Lauren by Jordan Deen
Chained by Lynne Kelly
Summer and Bird by Katherine Catmull
The Veil by Cory Putman Oakes
The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy by Nikki Loftin
Return to the Willows by Jacqueline Kelly
PICTURE BOOKS
Alicia's Fruity Drinks by Lupe Ruiz-Flores
HummingBirds: Facts and Follklore from the Americas by Jeanette Larson
It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw by Don Tate
One Day I went Rambling by Kelly Bennett
