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Tag: #kidlit interview

Meet Karen Yin, Debut Picture Book Author

June 8, 2021 Carol Gordon Ekster

Karen Yin is in my picture book marketing group for 2022. But her debut picture book, Whole Whale, with Barefoot Books, illustrated by Nelleke Verhoeff,

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The Talented and Lovely #Kidlit Author, Christy Mihaly

April 14, 2020 Carol Gordon Ekster

CAROL GORDON EKSTER: I met Christy at Jane Yolen’s picture book boot camp at the Highlights Foundation in 2018, where she was one of those

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Interview with Anne Broyles, #kidlit author

August 14, 2018 Carol Gordon Ekster

CAROL GORDON EKSTER: When I first started my own writing career, it seemed every #kidlit event I went to I’d bump into Anne Broyles. And

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Nancy Churnin, Fabulous #kidlit Nonfiction Picture Book Author

June 12, 2018 Carol Gordon Ekster

CAROL GORDON EKSTER: I just love social media. I connected with Nancy when we both had picture book birthdays on the same day, September 1,

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Interview with Kim Harrington, YA and MG #kidlit author

February 6, 2018 Carol Gordon Ekster

  CAROL GORDON EKSTER: Kim Harrington, a fan of Writers’ Rumpus, is an acclaimed author with Scholastic, Penguin, and Sterling Childrens Books. I interviewed her below.

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Meet Ruth Spiro, #kidlit author of Baby Loves Science series

October 10, 2017 Carol Gordon Ekster

Carol Gordon Ekster: Ruth Spiro is one of those wonderful #kidlit folks that I connected with through our shared experience of being alumni of Jane Yolen’s

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