Category: About Me

Here’s Me, Being Interviewed

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In the video below, talented and successful author Trent Reedy interviews moi about RADIO GIRL. I would set this video up more for you, but I think a tour de force such as this will speak for itself:

Trent’s next book, a novel for young adults titled DIVIDED WE FALL, comes out in January, 2014. Write that down.

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Photo of CarolCarol Brendler is the author of the young adult novel RADIO GIRL (Holiday House) September 5, 2013.
Coming 2014: A picture book, NOT VERY SCARY, illustrated by Greg Pizzoli, from FSG.
Also by Carol Brendler: WINNIE FINN, WORM FARMER (FSG, 2009) a picture book illustrated by Ard Hoyt.

Springfield in March, 2013

WFWFBookmark2 What larks! I was able to join Trent Reedy and the cast of the SCBWI-Illinois booth at the Illinois Reading Council earlier this month. Talked to educators and school librarians about my books AND went to a banquet which featured none other than the inimitable Katherine Paterson. See more: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151356624122957.1073741825.690027956&type=1&l=580472c20d.

EMU’s Debuts~the blog

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An Emu

There’s another blog I write for, at least for this year. It’s called EMU’s Debuts, and it’s a blog for new authors whose books are coming out in the next year or so. EMU is a truncation of Erin Murphy, whose literary agency represents us all.

They let me sign up for it even though Winnie Finn is really my debut book. I didn’t have an agent when Winnie was sold, but since my debut novel, Radio Girl, was agented by Ammi-Joan Paquette of the Erin Murphy Literary Agency they let me squeeze in. There are all kinds of posts, both silly and sad. Mine tend more toward the silly. Surprised?

I’m just getting to know the other authors-to-be and they are a really interesting bunch. There’s Laurie Boyle Crompton, whose debut YA novel, Blaze, is out and by all accounts is getting noticed. Next up will be Tara Lazar‘s picture book, The Monstore, and Melanie Crowder‘s YA novel, Parched.

monstorefrontcover Parched Blaze

And a bunch more, but I’ll mention them when their time has come.