Booklist ONLINE identified eight outstanding book jackets from 2013. One of them is Shannon Hitchcock‘s The Ballad of Jessie Pearl, with art by Timothy Decker and designed by Helen Robinson. Congratulations all!
A family vacation goes asunder amid notes of Deliverance, religious delusions and frighteningly plausible violence….It’s the inexplicability of cruelty that makes this horrifying page-turner so effective. A compelling portrayal of inevitable, realistic violence and evil personified.
—Kirkus Reviews
As for Out of Eden, I don’t know if one can say he liked a book about evil so I’ll say I admire it, instead. [Peter Johnson has] done a superb job of conveying the inexplicable nature of evil, reinforcing it by the sections that take the reader into Leopold’s head. … The sense of foreboding is palpable; Leopold and Abraham are two scary dudes! …Heartstopping but deeply satisfying.
—Michael Cart
This fall Farrar, Straus and Giroux is publishing a 30th-anniversary edition of the The Witches by Roald Dahl. They asked me to write an afterword about my work with the author.
Continue Reading...It’s definite! Our next two workshops are scheduled for November 8-11, 2013, to be held at the Montreat Conference Center in Montreat, NC, and a spring 2014 conference over the Memorial Day weekend, May 23-26, 2014, again at the Rolling Ridge Retreat Center in North Andover, MA. For more information about the November workshop go to Workshops under our services menu.
Continue Reading...Two namelos novels have recently been nominated for a pair of venerable children’s book awards: The Summer of Hammers and Angels, by Shannon Wiersbitzsky, is on Kansas’ William Allen White master list for 2013-14 and Waiting to Forget, by Sheila Kelly Welch, is on South Carolina’s Junior Book Award master list for the same period.
Continue Reading...Our spring namelos writers’ workshop is scheduled for May 26-29, 2013.
Continue Reading...“This brief debut packs a serious punch and will leave readers stunned with Calvin’s grim options.”
—Kirkus Reviews, February 1, 2013