STAR Academy – the Movie?

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

There are now numerous requests coming in for the manuscript of STAR Academy, not only from foreign publishers attending the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which wraps up today, but also from film studios and production companies. I am feeling more Ed Grimley than ever. I also have renewed interest in a project of mine entitled [...]

Links

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Following are various links – some of them regarding my creative activities, others for organizations that are near and dear to me, or that I hope might be useful for my readers.
Since this is my blog site, I’ll exercise my right to shameless self-promotion by making the first link a link to more bumpf about [...]

Bologna Bound

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

Okay, sadly, it’s not me that’s off to the Bologna Children’s Book Festival in Italy next week. But the good news is that my novel, STAR Academy (previously known as Special Ed), is making the journey to sunnier climes, along with my literary agent par excellence, Marie Campbell, and Samantha Haywood, her colleague at Transatlantic [...]

STAR Academy

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

At last, we’ve settled on that clever meaning of the acronym in the title for the upcoming novel, in great part thanks to my editor at Doubleday, Amy Black. Interestingly enough, she and I came up with the new title “STAR Academy” independently of each other. It’s a good portent, at least for indicating that [...]