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ALA 2011

 

The American Library Association Annual Conference kicks off on Friday in New Orleans, and I’m super excited because I’LL BE THERE! I’m teaming up with nine fantastic nonfiction writers in a massive celebration of writing and reading and sharing nonfiction. Here are the details:

Nonfiction Book Blast: Booktalks and Activities for Your Library
Sunday June 26, 2011, 8am-10am
Morial Convention Center Room 243

Start school with new booktalks and activities from ten nonfiction authors: April Pulley Sayre (Rah, Rah, Radishes), Kelly Milner Halls (In Search of Sasquatch), Deborah Heiligman (Charles and Emma), Loree Griffin Burns (The Hive Detectives), Carla Killough McClafferty (The Many Faces of George Washington), Christine Taylor-Butler (Magnets), Shirley Duke (You Can’t Wear These Genes), Darcy Pattison (Prairie Storms), Carla Mooney (Explorers of the New World) and Anastasia Suen (Read and Write Sports). (Handouts)

I’ll also be signing books in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt booth (#1539-1540) immediately after the presentation and until 11am. I’ve packed scads of honey candy, so please do stop by.

For a complete list of all the Book Blast authors and their signing schedules, visit our blog.

Safe travels!

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Nonfiction Book Love

© Loree Griffin Burns

I posted over at the Nonfiction Book Blast blog today, and I hope you’ll check it out. The comments section is full up with great nonfiction reading ideas. Click on over.

(What’s up with the chives? Everything. They are digging all this rain. Can’t say the same for the Little Leaguers living in this house …)

 

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Anastasia Suen on Read and Write Sports

Anastasia Suen is one of nine fabulous writers who will be helping me celebrate nonfiction this June at the American Library Association conference in New Orleans. You can find a whole lot of information about our Nonfiction Book Blast panel and presentation at our Nonfiction Book Blast blog, and you can learn more about Anastasia’s latest book, READ AND WRITE SPORTS, here.

Hope to see you in New Orleans!

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Darcy Pattison on Writing (and Researching) Nonfiction

This week on the Nonfiction Book Blast blog, Darcy Pattison talks about her transition from writing fiction to writing nonfiction. Read what she has to say about researching for the two genres here.

And don’t miss the kickin’ book trailer she made to show of the many authors and books (including me and THE HIVE DETECTIVES) that will be featured at the Nonfiction Bookblast panel presentation this June at the American Library Association annual conference in New Orleans:

I’m looking forward to meeting you in person, Darcy!

 

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Nonfiction Book Blast

I’m excited to be part of a panel of nonfiction writers sharing books with librarians at the American Library Association annual conference in New Orleans this summer. To give everyone a taste of ourselves and our books, we’ve started blogging together over at Nonfiction Book Blast .

This week’s featured author is the weird and wonderful Kelly Milner Halls.

Last week’s featured author was the multi-talented Shirley Duke, who is hard at work on a video trailer for our panel. (More on that soon. And, yes, I’m a week late getting this post up; I’ve been doing my taxes!)

The ladies of Nonfiction Book Blast will be blogging each week on Nonfiction Monday and I’ll be linking the posts here each week. Stay tuned.