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We'll be back to our regularly scheduled program next week. Keep an eye out for the continuation of our February Poetry Month (focusing on Novels-in-Verse). Stay warm!
Lea is the illustrator of several picture books, including Lailah's Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story by Reem Faruqi. Lea is also the author of Ready to Fly: How Sylvia Townsend Became the Bookmobile Ballerina (illustrated by Jessica Gibson) with more books for kids on the way. Her nonfiction book for older kid readers, The Double V Campaign: African Americans Fighting for Freedom at Home and Abroad, won the Grateful American Book Prize.
In the fourth episode of the podcast, Nuttall and Strohman focus on desire, specifically shifting desire. In Thieves’ Gambit, the main character, Ross, also has a Shifting Desire because her external desire changes early in the story.
Traditional publishing is often a slow process...There are occasionally books that get snapped up and released really quickly, but, more often than not, it’s a much longer wait . . . It’s so important for writers to plug into a community of other writers they can share this journey with and to use the “waiting period” to work on something new or hone-in on their craft.
Anne-Marie Strohman (co-editor) writes picture books, middle grade novels, and young adult short stories and novels. She is a teacher, an editor, and a scholar. She is an active member of SCBWI and holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Find her at amstrohman.com and on Twitter @amstrwriter