Here's what Booklist says about Kristin O'Donnell Tubb's middle grade historical, WINIFRED OLIVER DOES THINGS DIFFERENT: "Tubb’s inventive heroine comes across as a female version of familiar characters, such as Gary Paulsen's Harris or Robert Newton Peck's Soup. This homespun tale,f ull of folksy humor and based on historical fact, will appeal to young fans of Deborah Wiles' and Ruth White's books."
Book Chic loves Debbie Reed Fischer's Young Adult, BRALESS IN WONDERLAND. Read the interview here.
SWIMMING WITH THE SHARKS also by Debbie Reed Fischer was given the Gold Star Award for Excellence by TeensReadToo.com. Here is the review.
Guess what independent booksellers for children across the nation are recommending?
THE MAGIC THIEF by Sarah Prineas and THE POSSIBILITIES OF SAINTHOOD by Donna Freitas
Check out the catalog.
GO GANG!
Viewing: Blog Posts Tagged with: Autumn Winifred Oliver Does Things Different, Most Recent at Top [Help]
Results 1 - 4 of 4
By: The Class of 2k8,
on 11/15/2008
Blog: 2k8: Class Notes (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: debbie reed fischer, donna freitas, sarah prineas, braless in wonderland, kristin o'donnell tubb, Autumn Winifred Oliver Does Things Different, the magic thief, Swimming with Sharks, The possibilities of sainthead, Add a tag
By: The Class of 2k8,
on 10/15/2008
Blog: 2k8: Class Notes (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: the call, class of 2k8, kristin o'donnell tubb, Autumn Winifred Oliver Does Things Different, Add a tag
The scene: Early February, 2007. My editor, Wendy Loggia, calls my cell phone. I am nine months pregnant. I am AT THE OB/GYN.
Wendy: "Hello, Kristin? It's Wendy Loggia from Random House."
Me: "Oh my gosh! It's so good to hear from you! I'm at my gynocologist's office right now."
Wendy: silence
Me: "Oh, um - I should say, I'm not in the office right now - I mean, I am, but I'm checking out. I'm done." Shut up Kristin. "I mean - I'm scheduling my induction for my new baby. I was newly pregnant when we met, remember?" Shut UP, Kristin. "Everything's great! Healthy baby! I'm scheduling his arrival right now. That's why I'm at...my...OB's office..."
Wendy: laughing "I think this is a first for me."
Me: unbelievably mortified "Uh, me too?"
Wendy: "So I wanted to talk to you more about this wonderful story you sent me..."
And that was that! There, in my OB/GYN's office, I was offered my first book deal. Two weeks later, my son was born. It was one heckuva month.
By: The Class of 2k8,
on 5/5/2008
Blog: 2k8: Class Notes (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: pregnancy, kristin o'donnell tubb, Autumn Winifred Oliver Does Things Different, wendy loggia, first sale, editor, random house, class of 2k8, Add a tag
To be considered a writer it only one takes thing...writing! To be considered a published writer it takes that first sale. This week we'll be sharing our first sale stories. Some are funny, some will make you verklempt and some will remind you why you should always remain persistent. May those of you reading these stories have exciting sales tales of your own blooming as we speak!
First up is Kristin O'Donnell Tubb's rather, ahem, embarassing story....
The scene: Early February, 2007. My editor, Wendy Loggia, calls my cell phone. I am nine months pregnant. I am AT THE OB/GYN.
Wendy: "Hello, Kristin? It's Wendy Loggia from Random House."
Me: "Oh my gosh! It's so good to hear from you! I'm at my gynocologist's office right now."
Wendy: silence
Me: "Oh, um - I should say, I'm not in the office right now - I mean, I am, but I'm checking out. I'm done." Shut up Kristin. "I mean - I'm scheduling my induction for my new baby. I was newly pregnant when we met, remember?" Shut UP, Kristin. "Everything's great! Healthy baby! I'm scheduling his arrival right now. That's why I'm at...my...OB's office..."
Wendy: laughing "I think this is a first for me."
Me: unbelievably mortified "Uh, me too?"
Wendy: "So I wanted to talk to you more about this wonderful story you sent me..."
And that was that! There, in my OB/GYN's office, I was offered my first book deal. Two weeks later, my son was born. It was one heckuva month.
You gotta love two new babies! Join us tomorrow when Lisa Schroeder talks about her baby...BABY CAN'T SLEEP
By: April Henry,
on 9/21/2007
Blog: So many books, so little time (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: harlen coben, Add a tag
I met Harlan Coben back when he was the author of a bunch of paperback mysteries about a sportswriter. They were well liked, but not that well known, funny and hardboiled. Readers in the know knew that they were jokingly called “the bloody balls” books because each cover pictured one.
Then Harlan wrote his break-out book, Tell No One, which had a great hook and not a lot of joking, and suddenly he was in hardcover and there was a lot of gossip about million dollar deals and movie rights. (The hook was that a man’s wife has been murdered by a serial killer, yet a mysterious e-mail arrives on the anniversary of their first kiss, which leads him to wonder whether she might still be alive. The one problem I had with the book is that the author withholds some major, major information, but it was still a fun read, with a few characters named after folks everyone knows in the mystery community.) (Full disclosure: I wonder if the reviewer at PW is now eating his words in his review for that book: “The publisher will pitch this as a summer beach read, and it's not a bad one. In fact, it may outsell Coben's mysteries, despite its flaws.” Uh, yeah, in spades!)
So I guess when you get really famous, first they re-issue all your old paperback originals in new packages. And then they try to wring some more money from the market and issue them all in hardcover. As a reviewer, I just got one, Drop Shot, which was only the second in the paperback series. So they’ve got five more books to pimp out to readers who might think they are getting a new thriller, when actually they are getting his old sportswriter series books.
I just hope the rights had reverted back to him by the time that happened.
Subscribe with
JacketFlap's
Children's
Publishing
Blog Reader
">here.</a>
i love this story, kristen!