2 Comments on How to Launch a Book, Part I, last added: 4/2/2012
A few weeks ago, Steven R. McEvoy posted a lovely review of CHRONAL ENGINE over at his Book Reviews and More blog. Today, he has a twenty question author profile of me. Go check it out here!And don't forget: The launch party for CHRONAL ENGINE is at 2 p.m. March 24 at BookPeople in Austin. The program will include an author presentation and dinosaur cookies, cupcakes, and other refreshments. The picture is one of the gorgeous interior illustrations in CHRONAL ENGINE by Blake Henry.
Debbi Michiko Florence just posted an interview with me about time travel, over at her DEBtastic Reads blog. Click here to read. And take a look at her Writers and Illustrators Dinosaur post here:
Today is CHRONAL ENGINE release day! To celebrate, I answered a few questions over at Cynsations, where you can also enter to win a signed copy of CHRONAL ENGINE, along with a very hungry T.rex puppet! Click here to go see! Here's a shot of it on the "New Releases" shelf at BookPeople: And here's one of the amazing interior illustrations by Blake Henry: And don't forget: The launch party for Chronal Engine (Clarion, 2012) is at 2 p.m. March 24 at BookPeople in Austin. The program will include an author presentation and dinosaur cookies, cupcakes, and other refreshments.Order the book.
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Part 2 of my interview with Uma Krishnaswami is now posted over at "Writing with a Broken Tusk." Here's the link. CHRONAL ENGINE releases on March 20! The Release Party for CHRONAL ENGINE is at BookPeople at 603 N. Lamar on March 24, at 2 PM! And I just heard: The sequel to Uma's THE GRAND PLAN TO FIX EVERYTHING releases in 2013!
Today, I'm interviewed about Dinosaurs, Writing, and Research, by Sarah Blake Johnson at her Explorations blog: Click here to read. And see my Writers and Illustrators and Dinosaurs post with Sarah here. Also, a reminder: CHRONAL ENGINE releases on March 20! The Release Party for CHRONAL ENGINE is at BookPeople at 603 N. Lamar on March 24, at 2 PM!
Go check out the Authors for Henryville blog! CHRONAL ENGINE is one of the books being offered for auction as part of a fund-raiser to help those who suffered from the tornadoes earlier this month. Click here to bid on CHRONAL ENGINE. This round of the auction goes until 9 PM Eastern time, on March 15. (Beware the Ides!) For other authors on the current auction, click here.
Uma Krishnaswami posted part 1 of a discussion we had over at her blog, "Writing with a Broken Tusk." Uma is the author of a number of picture books, as well as the hilarious middle grade novel, THE GRAND PLAN TO FIX EVERYTHING.
An interview with me about CHRONAL ENGINE just went live at the Authorlink website! Many thanks to Susan VanHecke! Go check it out here. Also, you still have time to enter author P.J. Hoover's giveaway of a prepublication ARC of CHRONAL ENGINE here. She says "[i]f you're looking for a fast-paced middle grade adventure/science-fiction story, then this book is for you! The action starts on page one, and it never ends." Thanks, PJ! Also, a reminder: the Release Party for CHRONAL ENGINE is at BookPeople at 603 N. Lamar on March 24, at 2 PM.
I'm delighted to announce that the activity kit for CHRONAL ENGINE is now available. It's filled with games and art and reading/discussion activities! Go here to check it out!
That's advanced reading copies, natch. They arrived Friday:
And, when I shelved these guys, I noticed something: If all you had to go on was colors, which books do you think are Cyn's and which are mine? I wonder if it means anything...
I am delighted to present the cover art for CHRONAL ENGINE. The cover, like the (equally awesome) interior illustrations, was done by Blake Henry. Higher resolution pics and more information about the book can be found at the CHRONAL ENGINE page at the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt web site.
This has been (and still is) one of the more purgatorial summers on record here in the heart of Texas. But the writing and the business of writing go on... Last week, I received cover art for CHRONAL ENGINE (I'll post when it's made public) and this week, got first pass pages (above), including thirteen amazing interior illustrations by Blake Henry! I couldn't be more thrilled. He absolutely nailed the characters and the paleo-critters, as well. (No, I can't show you these. You'll just have to wait and see. Yes, I'm a tease. The pub date is March 20, 2012. :-)). In other news, Cyn likewise received first pass pages for her novel DIABOLICAL, which has a pub date of January 24, 2012. Also, TANTALIZE: KIEREN'S STORY comes out next week! Go here for an interview with Cyn and illustrator Ming Doyle! In other news, the Austin Teen Book Festival announced its lineup. Cyn will be moderating Fantasy Panel 1, with Heather Brewer (VLADIMIR TOD), Jackson Pearce (SWEETLY), Tera Lynn Childs (SWEET VENOM), Sophie Jordan (VANISH) and Andrea Cremer (WOLFSBANE). It's October 1, 2011, at the Palmer Events Center. Next, congratulations to Cyn and the other finalists for the Writers League of Texas Children's Book Award! In addition to HOLLER LOUDLY, finalists are SHARK VS. TRAIN, by Chris Barton, A MILLION SHADES OF GRAY, by Cynthia Kadohata, POP! THE INVENTION OF BUBBLE GUM, by Meghan McCarthy, BETTI ON THE HIGH WIRE, by Lisa Railsback, and CROSSING THE TRACKS, by Barbara Stuber. Finally, BLESSED is a finalist for the ALA Teens' Top Ten List for 2011! If you're a teen, go and vote for it here! The winners will be announced during Teen Read Week (October 16-22).
I was contemplating cryptids this week after having picked up the first two books is Roland Smith's terrific Cryptid Hunters series published by Hyperion and Scholastic: The series features the adventures of thirteen-year-old twins Marty and Grace and their cryptid-hunting uncle. In the first book, they're off to Africa to save the sauropod-shaped mokele-mbembe from facing a new extinction. In the second, they're on a ship off the coast of New Zealand to find a giant squid. Two more books are forthcoming... Anyway, it got me thinking. As a young reader, in addition to dinosaurs, one of the things that I was absolutely fascinated by was crytpids (although the word didn't actually exist back then): Bigfoot, Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, mokele-mbembe, and the like. Just the idea that there were these creatures that could exist below the radar in our (apparently) very advanced world fascinated me. And how cool would it have been to have come face to face with one or any of these? Of course, in 1938, that very thing happened with the discovery of live coelacanths, thought to have gone extinct at the time of the dinosaurs... The difference, of course, between dinosaurs and (most) cryptids is that the former were real, but they still tap into that same craving to see them live and that same wonder about what would happen if we encountered them today. In the flesh. And this fascination has been ongoing since very nearly the dawn of the dinosaurs themselves. The earliest life-sized sculptures were the "Crystal Palace dinosaurs" of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, built in the early 1850's, not long after Richard Owen coined the term "dinosaur." Nowadays, of course, just about every natural history museum has skeletal and/or static or animatronic recreations.
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2 Comments on How to Launch a Book, Part I, last added: 4/2/2012
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Congrats, Greg!!! Woohooo!
I LOVE that they have to go back and rescue Mad Jack!!