Only 75 days to go until Five Flavors of Dumb is officially released, and things are moving fast!
For a start, the Dumb tour will now incorporate stops all across Missouri, Chicago, and Seattle. I’ll post details as soon as they’re sorted out.
But that’s not all . . .
Today I mailed my editor (the extraordinarily talented [...]
For all the Brits reading this, Kepler’s is a legendary bookstore in the Bay Area of California. (That’s the region around San Francisco.) It’s a regular stop for touring authors, and everyone raves about it. Well, even though I can’t quite believe it . . . (drum roll, please) . . .
They’ve chosen FIVE FLAVORS [...]
So a few weeks ago I met Lauren Myracle at a signing. As a fan, it seemed natural to give her an advanced copy of DUMB. Not that I was sure she’d have time to read it, mind you, but it was pretty cool to think that one day she might.
Well, she did . . [...]
I love children’s authors. I mean, LOVE them. Meeting them not only inspires me, it reminds me that I am freakily fortunate to be doing what I’m doing.
I read a comment by Sherman Alexie about the difference between the children’s and adult’s book worlds (I can’t find the actual quote, of course, because I’m useless) [...]
Made-of-awesome author/agent Mandy Hubbard read an advanced copy of FIVE FLAVORS OF DUMB and very kindly wrote about it:
“I read FIVE FLAVORS OF DUMB by Antony John this week:
And OMG: AWESOME. I didnt expect it to be so emotional! Holy crap, I got choked up like, every other chapter. Yet not in a depressing way at all– in that [...]
Those of you who’ve read the blurb for FIVE FLAVORS OF DUMB might know that it’s narrated by a deaf high school senior named Piper, who aspires to attend Gallaudet University, an excellent liberal arts college in Washington, DC. (Gallaudet is the finest college for deaf and hard-of-hearing students in the world.) Well, it just [...]
I’m a bit slow on the uptake here, but fellow Upstart Crow author Jody Sparks declared BUSTED her funniest book of 2009. It’s the first award I’ve won. I don’t even have an acceptance speech ready.
It’s great to hear that people find BUSTED so funny. Humor is a tricky thing in books–a combination of context, [...]
My sister-in-law sent me a cool link to the Guardian newspaper, which was running a series in which authors submitted their Rules for Writing. There’s some good stuff in there, such as:
“Read it aloud to yourself because that’s the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK (prose rhythms are too [...]
Lauren at Lauren’s Crammed Bookshelf has a posting on DUMB already! This is so awesome, especially as the book won’t be coming out for another 8 months (yikes!).
She says: “Doesn’t this sound amazing? I think so! I love how Piper, the main character, is deaf because you really don’t see that often in YA. Plus, I [...]
At dinner the other night, a friend asked what I was working on at the moment. I ran through my project list, which includes both YA and fantasy, and he asked how I was able to work in two completely different genres at the same time.
It’s a good question, too. I’ve never had trouble working [...]
