Check out my interview with Crystal Chan over at From The Mixed-Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors.

Comment and enter to win a UK version of her wonderful debut novel, Bird.

My interview with Kurtis Scaletta is up over at From the Mixed-Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors.
He's giving away a signed copy of The Winter of the Robots.

Go. Read. Win.

My post on productivity is up on Mixed-Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors, featuring tips from
Shawn McGuire, Shannon Delany, Laurie J. Edwards, Janet Fox, and Sarah Prineas.


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I've been blogging over at From the Mixed-Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors.
(I obviously haven't been blogging much over here.)

Today I posted a piece on the reboot of Seymour Simon's Einstein Anderson series.


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I've been giving presentations on Sciency Fiction lately, and I've been asked to post a list of sciency fiction titles.
Suggested age ranges are in parentheses.
If the book is part of a series, only one book is mentioned, usually the first.

So here it is. I hope to keep it updated, and suggestions are welcome.

THE 14 FIBS OF GREGORY K. by Gregory ( Read more... )

If you like kidlit and you like science, The Middle Grade Science Project is for you. Elaine Vickers profiles middle-grade books with science content, and lists some ideas for books that might appeal to readers who like the profiled book. She also has links to websites with related science content, as well as a whole post a little later in the week ( Read more... )

Over at From the Mixed-Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors, I blogged about Sciency Fiction and I'm giving a set of up to 15 ARCs of The Reinvention of Edison Thomas to one lucky school or library.

Tomorrow I head up to Sheboygan, Wisconsin for the Third Annual Sheboygan Children's Book Festival. It'll be my first time attending, since I had scheduling conflicts the last few years.

I was in Sheboygan last year for the World Premiere of the stage production of The Reinvention of Edison Thomas.

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It's Random Acts of Publicity Week!

It's also the first week of school and kind of hectic, so I'm just going to post cover images of some of my favorite middle-grade sciency fiction books. I'm working on some talks and blog posts on the subject, so stay tuned. In the meantime, check out these titles if you love science (and even if you're on the ( Read more... )