News covering author appearances, book signings, book tours, events and awards.
At London Book Fair, Panel Says Two-Year British E-Textbook Study is Myth-Shattering By Andrew Albanese - 04/21/2009
Caren Milloy, director of e-books for JISC, said the two-year effort was largest e-book study ever conducted. It garnered some 48,000 survey responses, as well as analysis of raw server logs at 127 U.K. participating universities, all bolstered by focus groups. More
Men at War: PW talks with Evie Wyld by Brandon Proia - 06/29/2009
Repressed trauma trickles down through generations of Australian veterans, POWs and recluses in Evie Wyld's After the Fire, a Still Small Voice. Think Annie Proulx by way of North Queensland.
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Q & A with Sharon M. Draper By Felicia Pride - 06/25/2009
Sharon M. Draper has been busy of late, with her new Sassy series for tween girls from Scholastic, as well as the release of Just Another Hero (Atheneum, July), the final book in her Jericho trilogy. The former teacher now writes fulltime, and does school visits and appearances. PW caught up with the author to talk about her writing life.
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Spring 2009 Flying Starts: Four Children's Authors By Sue Corbett, Diane Roback and John A. Sellers - 06/22/2009
This spring saw many strong children’s book debuts, but for our semiannual Flying Starts, which highlight standout first books, we narrowed the field to four. The novels we selected feature a girl who embraces science one stifling summer in 1899 Texas; a boy coming of age in rural Oregon against the backdrop of war; a group of delinquent teenage boys investigating the disappearance of a friend; and a family quietly suffering an abusive father.
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PW profiles Charles Todd: the mother and son mystery writing team By Leonard Picker - 06/22/2009
Masters of psychologically complex detective stories set in the aftermath of WWI, the mother-son team of Caroline and Charles Todd, who write under the name Charles Todd, have a new series featuring a female detective set in the same period.
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A Wake Up Call to the West: PW talks with Alex Dryden by Robert C. Hahn - 06/22/2009
Alex Dryden is the pseudonym of a British journalist who lived in Russia for more than 15 years. Red to Black (Reviews, June 15) is his first novel, a thriller that offers a sobering view of Putin's Russia.
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Q & A with Jarrett J. Krosoczka By Sara Antill - 06/18/2009 Author/illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka is best known for his picture books; his latest books are a bit of a departure, and are his first foray into the comic/graphic novel format. We caught up with Krosoczka to find out about his latest projects, and whether or not he has a “thing” for any lunch ladies in particular. More
