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1. Children’s Books Interview – Horn Book Editor, Roger Sutton

By: JOANNA MARPLE, on 9/23/2015
Blog: Miss Marple's Musings (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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[JM] Roger Sutton has been the Editor in Chief of The Horn Book, Inc., since 1996. He is widely recognized as being among the country’s leading experts on children’s literature. So it wasn’t without a little trepidation that I asked Roger for an … Continue reading →

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2. Hodgepodge of Publishing Industry News

By: Kathy Temean, on 5/7/2011
Blog: Writing and Illustrating (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Caitlyn Dlouhy has been promoted to v-p, editorial director of Atheneum Books for Young Readers. You can meet Caitlyn at the NJSCBWI Conference in June.

Jennifer Hunt is joining Penguin Children’s Dial Books as vp of acquisition and development and editor-at-large, starting next week, reporting to Lauri Hornik. She will acquire and develop literary and high-quality commercial fiction, from picture books to YA, and will also “liaise with the film/tv/game community on the west coast.” Hunt was most recently editorial director at Little, Brown Children’s.

At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Andrea Welch has been promoted to senior editor, Beach Lane Books.

The Children’s Choice Book Awards honored Rick Riordan as author of the year and David Wiesner (Art and Max) as illustrator of the year, based on votes from over 500,000 kids.

BEA starts May 23rd at the Javitz Center in NYC – http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/BEA-Conferences/Childrens-Book-Professionals/

The Week In eBook Sales

Publishers reported a lot of ebook numbers this week. Just to line them all up together:

Hachette Book Group USA	22 percent
HarperCollins US	19 percent
Simon & Schuster (worldwide)	17 percent $26 million
Harlequin	13.6 percent $15.7 million (CA)
HarperCollins (worldwide)	11 percent
Random House UK	8 percent
Hachette UK	5 percent
Simon & Schuster UK	3 percent (approximately)

Harper US eBook Sales Reach 19 Percent for the Quarter.

Talk tomorrow,

Kathy

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3. Illustrators Intensive June 3rd

By: Kathy Temean, on 2/21/2011
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Juried Art Exhibit and Portfolio Display and Contest June 4th and 5th.

Come out and meet Leeza Hernadez, Former 2011 Tomie dePaola Award winner and Katia Wish 2011 Tomie dePaola Award winner at the conference.

Talk tomorrow,

Kathy

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4. Scholastic Names Trends in Children’s Books

By: Kathy Temean, on 12/8/2010
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Scholastic draws on their experience of distributing books from all children’s publishers through their school book clubs and book fairs. Scholastic’s editors created a list of ten trends from the 2010 year in children’s books. President of Scholastic Book Clubs Judy Newman remarks in the release, “We’ve seen some exciting innovation in children’s publishing in 2010, including new formats and platforms for storytelling that are helping more and more kids become book lovers. At the same time, we’re seeing a rejuvenation of some classic genres, which I think is evidence of the timeless power that stories and characters have on the lives of children.”

1. The expanding Young Adult audience
2. The year of dystopian fiction
3. Mythology-based fantasy (Percy Jackson followed by series like The Kane Chronicles, Lost Heroes of Olympus and Goddess Girls)
4. Multimedia series (The 39 Clues, Skeleton Creek, The Search for WondLa)
5. A focus on popular characters - from all media
6. The shift to 25 to 30 percent fewer new picture books, with characters like Pinkalicious, Splat Cat and Brown Bear, Brown Bear showing up in Beginning Reader books
7. The return to humor
8. The rise of the diary and journal format (The Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dear Dumb Diary, Dork Diaries, The Popularity Papers, and Big Nate)
9. Special-needs protagonists
10. Paranormal romance beyond vampires (Linger and Linger, Beautiful Creatures, Immortal, and Prophesy of the Sisters)

We discussed picturebooks eariler in the year at that time I told you that the members in New Jersey have been doing rather well, getting picture books published, so if you are a PB writer, don’t give up because Scholastics says they are down by 25%. Keep working on your story and by the June conference you should be ready to show it off to one of the editors attending.

Talk tomorrow,

Kathy

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