Member Sonja Anderson is pleased to report that her Luna Crane, Papa Plane has been named a finalist in the MeeGenius Author Challenge 2014! MeeGenius creates interactive e-picture books for kids ages 0-8. The grand prize winner will be announced in mid-September, and Luna Crane, Papa Plane, which is about a young whooping crane who... Continue Reading →
Calling all authors! You read it right here!
Bloomsbury Spark, a global digital imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has flung open its virtual doors, seeking fiction e-books in the teen/YA/New Adult genres. For all the details and conditions, please click here. Here's hoping someone in our chapter will submit, and we can post their good news sometime soon. Go for it, writers!
Angelina Hansen’s debut novel
Angelina Hansen, who served on AdCom from 2010-2012, released her debut novel Julius Caesar Brown and the Green Gas Mystery on Friday, July 12 under the pen name of Ace Hansen. The book currently exists as an e-book, available online at Amazon, MuseItUp, Kobo, and Barnes and Noble; the hardcover version launches this fall. Congratulations,... Continue Reading →
Stacey R. Campbell’s YA debut out today
Anacortes author Stacey R. Campbell's debut YA novel, Hush (Green Darner Press, a new imprint of Gemelli Press), releases today as an e-book, and the paperback will follow in mid-January. Please see her website for more details and information about Stacey, as well as her Facebook fan page. The first in a planned series of... Continue Reading →
Grief in Fiction book from Denise Jaden
After presenting on the topic of Grief in Fiction at a recent Pro Series meeting, YA author Denise Jaden has compiled and expanded her notes on the subject, included exercises and key points, and is releasing it as a new author's resource in ebook and paperback. In her first nonfiction book, Writing With A Heavy... Continue Reading →
Interesting Article
Thanks to Jim Whiting for sending this New York Times article! The article talks about how the kids of e-book-loving adults still prefer paper for their own books. It also brings up the subject/debate about if anything is lost by taking a picture book and converting it to an e-book.A great piece to check out!
Published Pro Think Tank Summary
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Authors & Ebooks: 11 Points to Ponder
Thanks to Laurie for sending this post from I.N.K. (Interesting Nonfiction for Kids) called Authors & ebooks: 11 points to ponder (written by Loreen Leedy). Here's a preview of the article:#11 Business as usual?If ebooks are priced lower, they may undermine the sales of traditional books, a huge problem for most publishers (and naturally authors.)... Continue Reading →
E-Piracy; Online Book Theft
With the rising number of e-readers, and e-books that are being bought, sold, and given as gifts, there is also a rise in piracy. These articles (the first article is about the rise in e-piracy, and the other article is about a book pirate) are good ones to peruse on the subject. Thanks to Joni... Continue Reading →
Article Opportunity for The Chinook
Greetings, fellow SCBWI-WWA members...In honor of Google's release of eBooks today, I would like to challenge one or more of you to write an article for The Chinook about the various e-readers and electronic book movement. I'm open to different takes on the issue, though I'd like to keep things positive and informative, rather than... Continue Reading →