Check it out -- FIVE Tenners are among the 2010 Cybils finalists:

In YA Fantasy & Science Fiction:

Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey
Plain Kate by Erin Bow


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I'm thrilled announce that I've sold the UK rights to my YA fantasy PLAIN KATE. The fun and feisty people at Chicken House won the auction, and have given me permission to go public with this happy news.

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Is there any question writers get asked more often than “where do you get your ideas?”
I think the askers are hoping that there’s a secret mail-order idea shop, and if they could only coax the address from someone, they’d soon have the mysterious envelope: “Alright” the elegant handwriting of the muse would tell them, “there’s this boy who’s a ( Read more... )

Word of my book sale appeared yesterday in Publisher's Weekly (which you know, because I found out about it here at 10ers) and today in Publisher's Marketplace.

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Name:  Erin Bow

'10 Book Title:  PLAIN KATE

Publisher:  Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic

Favorite bit of writing advice: Ribe Tuckus.  (Most of writing is the ability, courage, or muleheaded stubborness to sit and look at a page until something happens.)

Favorite part of writing:  Surprising myself.   It doesn't happen often enough, but sometimes, if you ( Read more... )