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Latest update September 29, 2008
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Latest update September 29, 2008
BREAKING NEWS! The best part of any book tour? Meeting your readers:
SEA QUEENS (Charlesbridge, 2008) is now available in stores! The Dino-Mite Scholastic Store in NYC:
You can sit on the dino's bean bag tail to read books. A new HOW DO DINOS book about LOVE has been accepted by the editor. Plus all four board books in a miniature boxed are out. We have two big books and four board books and a sticker book planned. From My Trip to the Aberdeen Area, Scotland 2007
********************************************************************************************** My brilliant, handsome, funny, and astonishing husband of 44 years, David W. Stemple, died on March 22, 2006 after a long and gallant battle with cancer. I shall miss him forever but I will never forget all I have learned at his side. His obituary can be found at: http://www.umass.edu/loop/people/articles/32379.php He has been gone two and a half years. It hardly seems possible. ***************************************************************************************** A new HOW DO DINOS book about LOVE has been accepted by the editor. Plus all four board books in a miniature boxed are out. We have two big books and four board books and a sticker book planned. Well, it was a selling spring/summer. I have high hopes for the fall. J. Patrick Lewis and I sold two books of poetry, one called LAST LAUGHS: ANIMAL EPITAPHS to Charlesbridge, and one about the life of painter Marc Chagall to Creative Editions. Heidi and I sold a rhyming picture book NOT ALL PRINCESSES WEAR PINK to Simon and Schuster. I sold collections WEE POEMS and WEE TALES to Simon & Schuster as well as a re-issue (retitle and some revisions) of BUNNY'S BEDTIME. Jason and I sold Boyds Millos two new poetry photograph and picture books: AN EGRET'S DAY and A MIRROR TO NATURE. Adam and I wrote and sold a novella about dragons during the Russian Revolution to an anthology about dragons. Whew! I finished the DRAGON'S HEART copyedit as well as a sketch to help the artist do a map. This fourth Pit Dragon book runs 92,000 words. And if all goes well, it could be out Spring 09. The most fun thingI did was serve as the first-ever Children's Ambassador to the Winterthur Museum in Delaware (the old DuPont Estate). They told my stories, read my books, reissued CHILD OF FAERIE in hardcover, between September and July. I did a weekend there in April with Heidi and the girls. We were especially moved by the duck box dedicated to David. Other fun things Spring Things: in April, I narrated ENCOUNTER with the Springfield, MA symphony. A special piece of music was written for it by local composer, Jerry Noble. A local children's theatrical group put on a play based on THE BALLAD OF THE PIRATE QUEENS at the Eric Carle Museum. And a ballet based on THE EMPEROR AND THE KITE was produced in Philadelphia and I got to narrate. Wrote a script for an animated version of "The Girl Who Cried Flowers" which will be made into a short (20 minutes or less) movie, as well as a script got "The Little Mermaid", both for Auryn Films. I have seen the final edit on GWCF and it is gorgeous. It is official: old dogs CAN learn new tricks. I sold two graphic novels, my first. (Though I have done two small comics with Charles Vess before.) One is called FOILED and has been picked up by editor Mark Siegel at First/Second Books, no illustrator assigned yet. It is about a modern high school girl whose passion is fencing and who loses her fencing foil on her first ever date in Grand Central Station. (This actually happened to me.) And then magic follows. (That didn't actually happen, just in case you are confused.) The second graphic novel has gone to DarkHorse comics and is called THE LAST DRAGON. It includes a dragon, a healer's three daughters, a hero in spite of himself, and pictures by my friend, the glorious Rebecca Guay (of magic cards, comics, and BALLET STORIES fame.) And I am talking to Dark Horse about other special things as well. An interview with me can be found at: Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.
I made two visits to the Hatfield Elementary School (my local school) for a writing contest and a dedication. Here is a photo of the winners of the eighteenth annual Jane Yolen writing contest that I sponsor every year.
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