Thursday, November 01, 2007

Spooky News & Links

Donna Jo Napoli's unlikely journey to literary success: interview by Linda M. Castellitto from BookPage. Here's a sneak peek: "I so enjoy giving my readers something to taste and hear and feel," Napoli says. "I pay a lot of attention to the senses."

"New Moon" rises in YALSA's 2007 Teens' Top Ten from the American Library Association.

Uninvited by Amanda Marrone at the YA Authors Cafe. Here's a sneak peek: "I researched vampire facts—I was always a vampire lover, but I wanted to dig deeper. I found some fun things I didn’t know—you can kill a vampire by immersing it in water, or hire a Bulgarian sorcerer to do it for you!" Read a Cynsations interview with Amanda.