Here is a sneak peek at the jacket cover and first chapter of one of Sourcebook’s hot new titles releasing in spring, EMPOWER by Jessica Shirvington.
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We’ve written together as screenwriters for years. So we already had a long established rapport. Still, dialogue is different from prose. In a screenplay you can split up characters and give them each distinctive voices. In a book the dialogue is minimal. So going in, the challenge was to make what we wrote individually seem like a seamless part of a whole.
JORDAN JACOBS’ love of mummies, castles, and Indiana Jones led to his first archaeological excavation at age 13 in California’s Sierra Nevada. His novels Samantha Sutton and the Labyrinth of Lies and Samantha Sutton and the Winter of the Warrior Queen were inspired by his work at Chavín de Huántar, Peru and in England.
Stacy’s debut picture book, DEAR SANTASAURUS (Boyds Mills Press, 2013), is now available. She loves books, dinosaurs, cookies, and writing letters. She lives in North Carolina with her 3 kids, 2 dogs, and 1 husband.
Fifty years ago, when Maurice Sendak’s picture book, Where the Wild Things Are, was released, not everyone hailed it as a masterpiece.
Children’s author Barbara Park, long appreciated for her stories that blend humor and heart, and best-known as the creator of irrepressible kindergartner Junie B. Jones, died on Friday, November 15, after a long battle with ovarian cancer.
Bill Thomson has been called “a master at visual storytelling.” He is the illustrator of several children’s books, including Chalk (Two Lions/Amazon Children’s Publishing, 2010), which received many accolades.
There’s a not-so-new reality in book publishing these days, and it’s this: you have to work as hard at promotion and publicity as you did on writing your book. And while authors do have more responsibility to market themselves than ever before, a publicist—in-house or freelance—is an excellent resource, one every author should make a point to tap.
As well as being the international bestselling author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney is also an online developer and designer. He has been named one of TIME magazine’s most influential people in the world. We know that you’ll be influenced by his five family favorites!
In Lucky’s Lick, a picture book recommended for children ages 4-8, a young Hispanic boy named Juanito sits in a wheel chair in front of his house, waiting for his friends to arrive for his birthday party. Lucky’s Lick is a story that will touch the heart and teach young children that whatever happens in life, they can always have hope.