My own bit of news is that I interviewed at Candlewick Books last week and very well may be either their next editorial assistant or executive assistant to the president and publisher. I have to wait to hear back from them this week or next. Either position would be great--the ed. asst. position would be more editorial right away, but even as the executive assistant I could have my hand in because the publisher edits her own book. If you haven't heard of them, they're a relatively small children's press here in Boston that have been around for about 10 years. They only have about 65 employees, and they're NOT IN NEW YORK!! A lot of their books have won awards recently, like the book Feed by M.T. Anderson that I told you all about last spring.
So, maybe someday, if any of you decide to do a book specifically for children, I might be looking at it for Candlewick! (And that includes middle readers and YA, not just picture books. Feed was science fiction, and another recent book they did was a historical fiction with a fantasy twist. So they're dabbling in SF/F.) But please, whatever you write, write it better than Madonna's recent release. Yes, Madonna has jumped on the writing celebrity books for children bandwagon.
Reviewers have finally gotten to look at it with the rest of the world and this is what they say:
Here's a taste:
"Read attentively, it yields an extremely personal, almost confessional glimpse into the author's raw feelings. Unfortunately, those feelings bespeak a persecution complex so narcissistic that she ought rather have paid readers $100 an hour than charged them 50 cents a page."
The rest of it is here:
[link]http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/09/16/MN293163.dtl[/link]
Another review:
[link]http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/showbiz/articles/6701217?source=Evening%20Standard[/link]
p.s. Can anyone tell me why it's adding spaces to the links where there are no spaces in the text I entered? The links aren't working.
