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Departments => Books => Topic started by: stacer on September 16, 2003, 10:08:11 AM
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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.
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We'll keep our fingers crossed for you, Stacer.
As for Madonna, well, I heard that the book (unfortunately) sold a TON of copies, despite reviews.
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So did her book sex, but that doesn't make it literature.
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So, second interview was today. They had me do reader reports. I'm so excited about this!
And I'm excited to see myself become....
Aha, a MASTER gardener.
Yeah, I'm probably the lowest on the totem pole and will never be queen of TWG, but oh well. Not my life's ambition.
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Can't be a queen without followers. ;)
Good luck stacer. I'm crossing my toes too!