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Congratulations to Jeff Crosby on the release of Rockabilly Goats Gruff (Holiday House, 2014). From the promotional copy:
Three rockin' billy goats turn a grumpy troll into the biggest rockabilly fan at the honky-tonk, putting a fun twist on the classic fairytale.
Through the hills and hollows, three Billy goats are rollin' to a gig at Nanny Gruff's Shimmy Shack, home of the best barbecue and boogie music around. But to get there, the billies have to cross a bridge...and deal with a mean old troll.
As each billy zooms up, the troll threatens to smash his instrument to smithereens. But that old square gets a heaping surprise when the rockin' billies take him to Nanny's, where he tastes her famous barbecue and hears that rockabilly beat.
Before long, the troll hits the dance floor to rock and roll at every Rockabilly gig from that night on!
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Lessons from a Debut Author's Year by Megan Shepherd from Adventures in YA Publishing. Peek: "It's just the beginning of a new journey, one fraught with even more perils. Instead of competing with other aspiring writers, now you're competing with other published authors, many of which are more successful, smarter, and better at marketing than you are."
The School of Happy Endings by Anna Elliott from Writer Unboxed. Peek: "One viewpoint I've heard sometimes is that happy endings are less 'realistic' than sad ones. Which honestly strikes me as doubly odd– because no ending is especially realistic, really."
11 Tips for Making a Book Trailer by Stina Lindenblatt from QueryTracker Blog. Peek: "Whether you need one is up to you. They can be an effective method to promote your book, or they can be a waste of money with no returns. If you do decide to make one, here are some tips for making the most out of yours."
The Art of Aging and Writing from Marion Dane Bauer. Peek: "That narrowing has given me power, exactly the way flowing water becomes a torrent when confined between banks . . . so long as the banks don't become so confining as to form a dam. We are fortunate that there are so many ways to keep the stream flowing." See also Marion on The Origins of Inspiration.
Writer Diagnosis: Failure to Thrive by Kristi Holl from Writer's First Aid. Peek: "The opposite of those symptoms would include feeling hope, having mental and emotional vitality when you write, being energized by your writing, delighting in your writing life, and feeling 'alive' when you are able to get in the flow! That would define 'flourishing.'" See also Writing Fears & Doubts: See You Later, Alligator by Bruce Black from wordswimmer and Don't Quit Before the Miracle by Robin Constantine from Adventures in YA Publishing.
Actions Speak Louder Than Words: On Screen and On the Stage by Dawn Lairamore from Project Mayhem. Peek: "I think the subtlety of this is just brilliant. Pages and pages of dialogue replaced by less than thirty seconds at the most—and the tension in the marriage is still perfectly conveyed by the scene!"
Inscription: A Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for Teens: "We actively seek diversity for our stories — strong female characters, characters of color, and characters of a wide range of ethnicities, religions, sexualities, gender identities, and abilities. All authors deserve to be paid for their work, so we pay professional rates for all the fiction we publish."
Reasons and Methods of Killing Characters--and One Reason Not To from Elizabeth Spann Craig. Peek: "Does this character have star quality?"
10 Rules for Rewriting History by Jennifer Cody Epstein from Writer Unboxed. Peek: "I've now published two novels of historical fiction, and am just starting on my third. Here are some 'rules of thumb' that have helped me in the process..."
Walking: A Universal Drug for Creativity by Katherine Longshore from Adventures in YA Publishing. Peek: "My first reaction was: Are you insane? I'm on a deadline, here! But then I closed my document, shut down my computer, and went for a walk." See also The Health Hazards of Sitting by Bonnie Berkowitz and Patterson Clark from The Washington Post.
How Morals and Basic Needs Influence a Character's Positive Traits by Becca Puglisi from Elizabeth Spann Craig. Peek: "Every character—protagonist, villain, sidekick, mentor, etc.—lives by a moral code. His beliefs about right and wrong are deeply embedded in his psyche and will influence his decisions, day-to-day actions, the way he treats people, how he spends his free time—they will impact every area of his life, including his personality." See also Talent and Skills Entry: Hospitality by Angela Ackerman from Writers Helping Writers.
Cover Stories: Torn by Stephanie Guerra from Melissa C. Walker. Peek: "I also like the model because I can see both Latina and Eastern European characteristics in her face, and Stella is biracial Mexican and Croatian..."
VCFA/Goldblatt: Angela Johnson Scholarship for New Students of Color or Ethnic Minority by Anna J. Boll from Creative Chaos. Peek: "...the agent Barry Goldblatt established a scholarship in honor of Angela Johnson, the critically acclaimed African American poet and author of more than 40 books for children and young adults. She has won the Coretta Scott King Award three times, the Michael L. Printz Award, and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003. Her work explores the lives of characters of color of all ages, in historical and contemporary settings and celebrates a myriad of experiences growing up in America."
Approaching Large Revisions from Elizabeth Spann Craig. Peek: "This is a process for someone who really, really needs a process or has become frozen because there is so much to do and she doesn't know where to start. It could work for someone with really limited time and a demanding day job. Or someone who has tried other methods without success." See also Eight Tips to Get Your Manuscript to the Finish Line by Angela Ackerman from Writers Helping Writers.
The Craft of Writing: Writing a Series by Mindee Arnett from Adventures in YA Publishing. Peek: "...given the fact that the early books are already in print by the time I'm writing the later ones, this presents all kinds of challenges in creating a cohesive story arc."
The Diversity 101 ALA Midwinter Conversation by Connie Hsu from CBC Diversity. Peek: "[Editors'] Fear of criticism should not be one of the challenges in bringing good, diverse books to the world, and while we are always aiming for authenticity and top-notch literary value, sometimes we have to step back and relax a little." See also Industry Q&A with Publisher Donna Bray from CBC Diversity. Peek: "...I can't help but look back with chagrin on the many beautiful, original, well-reviewed books I've published in this vein which have languished. Discoverability, an issue for so many books, seems to be that much more of a hurdle when it comes to diverse books."
Revising Historical Friction by Laurel Synder from Nerdy Book Club. Peek: "As a kid I could handle any amount of bullying, aloneness, or family drama, because I had one real best friend. One person who thought I was the most awesome person in the world. Even if my jeans were cheap and I was no good at kickball."
Authors Are Real People from Mette Ivie Harrison. Peek: "Authors whose books are made into TV shows or movies likely do not get any say in the adaptation. Complaining to them is not only hurtful, but useless."
Do We Need Bridge Characters in Global Books for Kids? by Mitali Perkins from Mitali's Fire Escape. Peek: "...this literary premise of needing 'bridge' characters may be the reason why (a) global books don't sell well without a big gatekeeper push, and (b) I got rejected for years and years because I was submitting books without them." See also 10 Great Resources for Writing Cross-Culturally from Tu Books.
Book Promotion on Twitter from Janet Reid, Literary Agent. Peek: "Subtle promotion is a better strategy for the long haul. And Twitter is long haul promotion." Source: QueryTracker Blog.
Agent-judged Pitch + Page Contest from Adventures in YA Publishing. Peek: "We will take the first 100 Middle Grade/Young Adult/New Adult entries submitted after noon on Feb. 15."
Children's-YA Book Awards & Lists
ALA Youth Media Awards from the American Library Association. Note: official mega round-up with photos and video. See also Top 10 Things You May Not Know About the Newbery by Monica Edinger from Nerdy Book Club and The Givers: What It Takes to Serve on the Newbery, Caldecott Committees by Shelley Diaz from School Library Journal.
Amazing Audio Books for Young Adults 2014 from YALSA.
2014 Recipients of the American Indian Youth Literature Award from Debbie Reese at American Indians in Children's Literature. Winners: Caribou Song by Tomson Highway, illustrated by John Rombough (Fifth House); How I Became a Ghost: A Choctaw Trail of Tears Novel by Tim Tingle (RoadRunner); and Killer of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac (Tu). Honor Books: Danny Blackgoat: Navajo Prisoner by Tim Tingle (7th Generation) and If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth (Scholastic).
2014 Amelia Bloomer List from the Feminist Task force of the American Library Association's Social Responsibility Round Table.
2014 Notable Children's Books from the Association of Library Service to Children.
Bo at Ballard Creek by Kirkpatrick Hill Wins Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction from The Horn Book.
Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English. Winner: A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet (Knopf).
Outstanding Science Trade Books from the National Science Teachers Association.
|Cheers to Austinite Mary Sullivan on her Geisel & Notable!
2014 Sydney Taylor Book Awards Announced by Association of Jewish Libraries: Laurel Snyder, Catia Chien (The Longest Night: A Passover Story), Patricia Polacco (The Blessing Cup), and Neal Bascomb (The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi) Named Gold Winners from The Whole Megillah. Click for details and Honor Books.
2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults from YALSA.
Lemony Snicket's The Dark Takes 2014 Charlotte Zolotow Award by Shelley Diaz from School Library Journal. Click for Honor Books and Highly Commended titles.
See We'll Never Know (post-award speculation) from The Horn Book and Book Awards: Four Questions from the Margins by Mitali Perkins from Mitali's Fire Escape. Peek: "Do any of the winning books or honorees feature a main character belonging to a group that has endured oppression in North America due to race or culture?" Note: look beyond those awards tied to ethnicity/culture.
See also ALA Youth Media Awards You May Not See Elsewhere from Crazy QuiltEdi, Thoughts on the Newbery This Year by Monica Edinger from Educating Alice (a former committee member finds out what it's like to dream about "the call") and Medal Worship: How I Stuck My Head in the Clouds and Got Crushed from Don Tate. Peek: "...my thoughts will also be will be with those who are predicted to win, but ultimately will not. Ever think about those people? Here is my story..."
2014 Asia Pacific American Award for Literature
Given by the Asian/Pacific American Library Association:
- The Picture Book Winner: Red Kite, Blue Kite by Ji-li Jiang (Disney/Hyperion)
- Picture Book Honor: Barbed Wire Baseball by Marissa Moss, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu (Abrams)
- Children's Literature Winner: The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum)
- Honor Recipient: The Vine Basket by Josanne LaValley (Clarion)
- Young Adult Literature Winner: Jet Black and the Ninja Wind by Leza Lowitz and Shogo Oketani (Turtle)
- Young Adult Honor: Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible by Suzanne Kamata (GemmaMedia)
This Week at Cynsations
- New Voice: Len Vlahos on Writing with a Day Job & The Scar Boys
- Elizabeth O. Dulemba on the Hollins MFA in Writing & Illustrating Children's Books
- Crave Diversity? It's (Partly) A Matter of Dollars and Sense
- Video: Children's-YA Authors Read Negative Customer Comments
- Lee Edward Fodi on World Building: Myths, Menus & Maps
- Book Trailer: If It's Snowy and You Know It, Clap Your Paws! by Kim Norman & Liza Woodruff
- In Memory: Ned Vizzini
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FYI, it's also eleven days until the North American release of Feral Curse and the paperback edition of Feral Nights from Candlewick Press. I'm not too proud to ask for love--go crazy with those pre-orders!
For those wondering if I'm ever coming out of the deadline cave, I'm pleased to report that I'm printing Feral Pride for this weekend's read aloud before sending it to my editor early next week. So there.
What else? Each year Cynsations features debut children's-YA authors and illustrators in a New Voices/Visions interview series, which kicked off again yesterday with Len Vlahos's interview about The Scar Boys (Egmont, 2014).
Invitations to participate are extended to members of cooperative groups for first timers. It's a way to reward them for becoming active in the children's-YA writing-art community and to introduce them to fellow professional creatives in the industry.
|Just for fun! Austin Zoo & Animal Sanctuary (not a real cow)
Please send an email with your name, title, publisher, publication date and a link to more information. I'll take a look and get back to you. If your debut title was released in 2013, I still consider that new, too.
Note: While independently published authors and illustrators occasionally appear at Cynsations, they're not typically featured in conjunction with this particular series.
Interested in African-American children's-YA literature? Check out: Shining the Spotlight: 28 Days Later 2014 Honorees from The Brown Bookshelf. Be sure to follow the celebration next month! On a related note, check out Top 10 Black History Books for Youth from Booklist.
In case you missed it, trending all over the Web is "The Fault in Our Stars" official movie trailer, based on the YA novel by John Green. And if you skipped it above, reconsider reading Revising Historical Friction by Laurel Synder. It's the link that lingers with me this week.
Oh, and check out author Heather "Auntie Heather" Brewer's new hair and editor Cheryl Klein's photos from her honeymoon in India.
And for something off-topic, Budweiser's Super Bowl ad won't make you want beer. It'll make you want a puppy and a horse. Or a puppy and several horses.
Congratulations to Janet S. Fox for signing with Erin Murphy of Erin Murphy Literary Agency and to Erin for signing Janet!
|Janet (far left) with me, Greg & Bethany Hegedus!
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|More from a recent research trip to Austin Zoo & Animal Sanctuary (it's a rescue zoo).
|One of these is not a bear.
|I've set a scene in Feral Pride (2015) outside this enclosure.
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|Cover Reveal (Chronicle, 2014)
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- 10 Things You Didn't Know About Becoming a Published Author
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- Patrice Barton Illustration from I Pledge Allegiance by Pat Mora and Libby Martinez
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Cynsational Events
The 2014 Austin SCBWI Writers & Illustrators Working Conference will be held Feb. 8 to Feb. 9 at the Marriott South Austin. Keynote speakers: YA author Matt de la Peña and author-illustrator Kelly Murphy.
Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers will be held June 16 to June 21 at the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah. Keynote speaker: James Dashner; faculty includes Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith. Learn about the WIFYR Fellowship Award.


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Fiction is a feminist issue
Why publishers can and should encourage men to read fiction
Yesterday we saw some friends and I gave the female half of the couple a bag stuffed with books. Her husband looked downcast and said "Don't you have any books for me, Bethanne?"
I explained to him that I did not–I receive fewer nonfiction books and pitches these days because I tend to write about and talk up fiction, although that could change any day depending on what project I'm working on at the time. His disappointment, however, sparked a dinner conversation about why men tend to choose nonfiction over fiction–especially because on of the books we discussed was Midnight in Peking, and our friend's comment was "It was so good; it read like a novel!"

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Despite the efforts of Eagles coach Andy Reid to promote his former offensive line coach Juan Castillo for the head coaching job at the University of Texas-El Paso, the current offensive line coach for the other NFL team in Pennsylvania has reportedly gotten the job.
Sean Kugler, a four-year UTEP letterman who has been coaching the Steelers' offensive line for three seasons, will be named the next coach of the Miners, according to the El Paso Times.
It's unclear whether Kugler will take the job now or finish the season with the Steelers.
For now, UTEP athletic director Bob Stull has opted to be coy. "Who is it today?" Stull said Saturday. "Yesterday it was [former Colorado coach Dan] Hawkins. Today, it's somebody else. I'll have to wait to tomorrow to find out."
Kugler previously served as the Bills' offensive line coach, and as offensive line/tight ends coach with the Lions. He spent 2006 at Boise State as assistant head coach/offensive line for the team that finished the season undefeated, winning the Fiesta Bowl in thrilling fashion over Oklahoma.


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Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War
University Press of Kansas, 1998 - History - 374 pages
Germany's surprise attack on June 22, 1941, shocked a Soviet Union woefully unprepared to defend itself. The day before the attack, the Red Army still comprised the world's largest fighting force. But by the end of the year, four and a half million of its soldiers lay dead. This new study, based on formerly classified Soviet archival material and neglected German sources, reveals the truth behind this national catastrophe.
Drawing on evidence never before seen in the West-including combat records of early engagements-David Glantz claims that in 1941 the Red Army was poorly trained, inadequately equipped, ineptly organized, and consequently incapable of engaging in large-scale military campaigns—and that both Hitler and Stalin knew it. He provides the most complete and convincing study of why the Soviets almost lost the war that summer, dispelling many of the myths about the Red Army that have persisted since the war and soundly refuting Viktor Suvorov's controversial thesis that Stalin was planning a preemptive strike against Germany.
Stumbling Colossus describes the Red Army's command leadership, mobilization and war planning, intelligence activities, and active and reserve combat formations. It includes the first complete Order of Battle of Soviet forces on the eve of the German attack, documents the strength of Soviet armored forces during the war's initial period, and reproduces the first available texts of actual Soviet war plans. It also provides biographical sketches of Soviet officers and tells how Stalin's purges of the late 1930s left the Red Army leadership almost decimated.
At a time when blame for the war in eastern Europe is being laid with a fallen regime, Glantz's book sets the record straight on the Soviet Union's readiness-and willingness-to fight. Boasting an extensive bibliography of Soviet and German sources, Stumbling Colossus is a convincing study that overshadows recent revisionist history and one that no student of World War II can ignore.
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Dr. Cohen earned his M.D. from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and his M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He completed his residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and performed a fellowship in Spinal Reconstructive Surgery at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Cohen's research interests include scoliosis, spinal deformities, patient safety, clinical outcomes studies, vertebral augmentation and the development of a large animal osteoporosis model.
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Chen AT, Cohen DB, Skolasky RL. "Impact of nonoperative treatment, vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty on survival and morbidity after vertebral compression fracture in the medicare population." J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2013 Oct 2;95(19):1729-36. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.K.01649.
Hassanzadeh H, Gjolaj JP, El Dafrawy MH, Jain A, Skolasky RL, Cohen DB, Kebaish KM. "The timing of surgical staging has a significant impact on the complications and functional outcomes of adult spinal deformity surgery." Spine J. 2013 Dec;13(12):1717-22. doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2013.03.005. Epub 2013 Apr 17.
Frank SM, Abazyan B, Ono M, Hogue CW, Cohen DB, Berkowitz DE, Ness PM, Barodka VM. "Decreased erythrocyte deformability after transfusion and the effects of erythrocyte storage duration." Anesth Analg. 2013 May;116(5):975-81. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31828843e6. Epub 2013 Feb 28.
van Middendorp JJ, Pull ter Gunne AF, Schuetz M, Habil D, Cohen DB, Hosman AJ, van Laarhoven CJ. "A methodological systematic review on surgical site infections following spinal surgery: part 2: prophylactic treatments." Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2012 Nov 15;37(24):2034-45. doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31825f6652. Review.
Pull ter Gunne AF, Hosman AJ, Cohen DB, Schuetz M, Habil D, van Laarhoven CJ, van Middendorp JJ. "A methodological systematic review on surgical site infections following spinal surgery: part 1: risk factors." Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2012 Nov 15;37(24):2017-33. doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31825bfca8 Review.
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