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kellyrfineman

Laurie Halse Anderson - an SBBT post

May 19, 2008 00:24

Laurie Halse Anderson is the well-known and award-winning author of novels for young adults, including Speak, Catalyst, Prom, and Twisted. She also writes for the somewhat younger set, however, including her award-winning picture book Thank You Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving and her middle-grade novel Fever, 1793. Laurie currently lives ( Read more... )

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annemariepace May 19 2008, 10:50:33 UTC

Great job, Kelly and Laurie! Thanks!

kellyrfineman May 19 2008, 12:42:01 UTC

I'm glad you enjoyed it, AM!

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kellyrfineman May 19 2008, 12:43:11 UTC

Laurie really does have her act together, that's for sure. New icon photo - is that a new hairstyle?

TadMack says: :) anonymous May 19 2008, 11:09:18 UTC

Wow - thanks for asking how the book dummy looked for INDEPENDENT DAMES! It must have been a sprawling monster indeed! It gives me courage to see history tackled in a lighter frame of reference. Laurie's great books give me the urge to try it myself -- there is indeed SO MUCH of it that gets written off or ignored because larger groups (such as Caucasian males) sort of hog the limelight. CHAINS looks like it's going to be fascinating.

And how cute are you two, grinning together? VERY. Great interview!

Re: TadMack says: :) kellyrfineman May 19 2008, 12:41:35 UTC

The best news (to me, anyhow) is that S&S wants two more historical novels from her, both in the Colonial time period (or thereabouts).

jmprince May 19 2008, 11:52:38 UTC

Fantastic interview, Kelly! Fantastic!
Such fascinating answers, Laurie.
I loved it. Can you tell?
~Julie

kellyrfineman May 19 2008, 12:43:57 UTC

Oh how I love a squeeish fangirl response first thing in the morning! I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Julie.

linbinwriter May 19 2008, 13:29:22 UTC

Excellent questions and very interesting answers. The illustrator wrote the text for the speech bubbles? Who would have thunk it.

RE: The Independent Dames, I can see both interviewer and interviewee in volume II.

kellyrfineman May 19 2008, 14:11:26 UTC

To be honest, I'd a thunk it, but only because I've heard illustrators and authors at conferences talking about that issue - because it's part of the illustration, it's within the illustrator's purview, and dialogue in bubbles is often written by the illustrator.

And thanks for the kind suggestion about volume 2. Although for a moment, I thought you were just calling me old. (Okay, I knew you weren't, but then it crossed my mind and made me laugh.)