Shameless Saturday

(left to right) Jennifer Bradbury (SHIFT), Jody Feldman (THE GOLLYWHOPPER GAMES), P.J. Hoover (THE EMERALD TABLET), Nancy Viau (SAMANTHA HANSEN HAS ROCKS IN HER HEAD), Brooke Taylor (UNDONE), Stacy Nyikos (DRAGON WISHES)

These awesome 2k8 classmates rocked at the National Council of Teachers of English conference with their panel: New Voices for a New Generation. They shared the scoop on how to grab reader interest in a technological world. San Antonio, Texas may never be the same again!





More accolades this week for Ellen Booraem's middle-grade THE UNNAMEABLES!

School Library Journal says THE UNNAMEABLES has "a style and charm all its own," and the American Library Association's Booklist says "Patient readers who like a little quirk in their fantasy will enjoy this stick-it-to-the-status-quo romp."

Go, Ellen!





And...you can catch up with Ellen on a couple of blogs! Here she is on the ever-popular Cynsations, talking about her writing life. And then there's a really fun interview on Laura Bowers' Shop Talk








And...Happy Birthday, Jonathan Swift! (November 30, 1667)

Interviews!

It's online interviews galore! Yup! Interviews with 2k8 classmates are popping up all over the place.

We're talking fun, hilarious, spit-your-diet-coke-at-the-computer-screen interviews!

Have you met Laura Bowers? YA Author of Beauty Shop for Rent and INTERVIEWER EXTRAORDINAIRE! Laura asks hardcore hard-hitting questions like:

What's the most regrettable hairstyle you've ever had?
What beauty product can you not live without?

Check out Laura's interviews with these 2k8ers:


Here's the interview with Jody Feldman, author of The Gollywhopper Games.

Here's the interview with Lisa Schroeder, author of I Heart You, You Haunt Me.

Here's the interview with Liz Gallagher, author of The Opposite of Invisible.

Here's the interview with Marissa Doyle, author of The Bewitching Season.


AND YOUNG AND TALENTED Jessica Burkhart interviewed Debbie Reed Fischer, author of Braless in Wonderland here.

Barrie Summy, author of I So Don't Do Mysteries, had her first interview. It's with the Edge of the Forest, a very cool monthly online journal for kitlit. Who conducted the interview? None other than the DELIGHTFUL Becky Levine.



So, take a break from work. Take a break from laundry. Take a break from writing. (Yes, we actually said that!) Click over and read these uberly entertaining interviews. Because a day without a giggle is a day without a .... giggle. :)