02/02/2012 @ 03:00PM
Children’s author Bill Wallace died on January 30 at his home in Chickasa, Okla., after a battle with cancer. He was 64.
01/26/2012 @ 03:00PM
Three lucky authors got phone calls from the Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz committees, letting each of them know they had won the top prize.
01/18/2012 @ 10:00AM
Since PW published a story about Brittany Geragotelis's novel Life's a Witch, the self-published author has been overwhelmed with inquiries from publishers, foreign rights agents and TV and film producers.
01/17/2012 @ 10:00AM
YA novelist John Green, whose latest effort, The Fault in Our Stars, hit shelves on hit shelves on January 10, has moved from William Morris Endeavor to UTA for his Hollywood business.
12/19/2011 @ 09:00AM
For a graphic artist who has done posters, covers, and spot illustrations, illustrating a book should be a piece of cake, right? Not necessarily. “When I do a cover or a poster, it’s often a big figure or object that’s centered on the page,” Christopher Silas Neal says.
12/19/2011 @ 09:00AM
In 2008, the first of a series of serendipitous events led then struggling writer Wendy Wunder (no, not a pseudonym) to a new career in YA literature. “I had been trying to write this adult novel that was semiautobiographical,” she says. Wunder wrote while her daughter was in preschool and diligently applied for grant funding to finish. “But I was starting to think maybe I should do something else with my life.”
12/19/2011 @ 09:00AM
Robison Wells did not aspire to be an author. In fact, as a teen, he hated English class and hated books. “I never wanted anything to do with writing,” he says now with a laugh. “Unlike so many of my colleagues, I was not born with a pencil in my hand.”
12/19/2011 @ 09:00AM
We pick four novelists and one illustrator who made notable debuts this season
Rae Carson grew up reading fantasy, but as time passed, the genre conventions that once resonated began to feel, well, conventional. When she sat down to write her own fantasy novel, she says, “I wanted to subvert those tropes and focus on what a princess is not versus the tropes of what she is. I wanted an epic quest like Lord of the Rings, but less Aragorn and more Ugly Betty.”
12/19/2011 @ 09:00AM
Neither first-timer nerves nor the Santa Ana winds that brought massive power outages across Southern California could keep Pasadena resident Marie Lu from her very first signing as a published author—at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in Redondo Beach on December 1. “A dream come true,” says the author—a dream that was a long time coming.
12/19/2011 @ 12:00AM
We pick four novelists and one illustrator who made notable debuts this season
For our semi-annual Flying Starts feature, we turn the spotlight on five new talents on the children's book scene.
The Roundup for Authors
Publishing news from across the Web
Mo Willems talks to PW about his new book and his new app. Plus, learn how to pronounce "Knuffle."
Author Michael Chabon says he had a particular reader in mind when he wrote his first picture book: his son Abe.
Random U.K. discusses its plans to promote the end of Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle.
With Origami Yoda and Darth Paper, the force is strong with author Tom Angleberger.
| 1 | Fault in Our Stars John Green / Author |
| 2 | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs / Author |
| 3 | The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus #2) Rick Riordan / Author |
| 4 | The Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick / Author, Brian Selznick / Illustrator |
| 5 | The Lost Hero Rick Riordan / Author |
| 6 | War Horse: (Movie Cover) Michael Morpurgo / Author |
| 1 | Elf on the Shelf Carol V Aebersold / Author |
| 2 | The LEGO Ideas Book Daniel Lipkowitz / Author, Sebastiaan Arts / Contribution by, Tim Goddard / Contribution by, Deborah Higdon / Contribution by, Barney Main / Contribution by, Duncan Titmarsh / Contribution by |
| 3 | If You Give a Dog a Donut Laura Joffe Numeroff / Author, Felicia Bond / Illustrator |
| 4 | LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary Simon Beecroft / Author, Jeremy Beckett / Consultant |
| 5 | Llama Llama Holiday Drama Anna Dewdney / Author |
| 6 | Home for Christmas Jan Brett / Author |
| 1 | Hunger Games Suzanne Collins / Author |
| 2 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney / Author |
| 3 | Inheritance Cycle Christopher Paolini / Author |
| 4 | Magic Tree House Osborne, Mary Pope / |
| 5 | Witch & Wizard James Patterson & Ned Rust / |
| 6 | Pretty Little Liars Sara Shepard / Author |
