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Today I have a lot of great news to share! Lambda Literary Awards I’m very happy to announce that Ash is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Children’s/Young Adult category. Here are all five of the Children’s/YA finalists: Ash, by Malinda Lo (Little, Brown) How Beautiful the Ordinary, edited by Michael [...]
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The First Sentence Tour starring the 2009 Debutantes continues this week with Stacey Jay, whose novel Undead Much? (the sequel to You Are So Undead to Me) came out in January. What’s one of your favorite first sentences from one of your favorite books? SJ: From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: A throng of [...]
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This week, my First Sentence Tour starring the 2009 Debutantes continues with Erin Dionne, whose second novel, The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, came out in January. What’s one of your favorite first sentences from one of your favorite books? ED: First sentence of Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White: Where’s Papa going with [...]
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As many of you know, I’m a member of the 2009 Debutantes. Well, our debut year may be over, but our books keep coming! So this year I’m happy to be hosting a number of Debs on the occasion of their second and even third books. All year long, we’ll be talking about first sentences [...]
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Lots of people love making new year’s resolutions. I have mixed feelings about them, but I do believe that Maggie Stiefvater’s advice, if you’re inclined to make resolutions, is very sound. This year, I’ve decided to make some sorta loose resolutions in my head about boring things like getting new light fixtures in the kitchen. [...]
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