Margo’s Printz Speech
The video is up. Here. At last! Only Melina to go now.
(Or, to put into context – Margo Lanagan’s Tender Morsels was a Printz Honor Book at the ALA Awards. Here is her acceptance speech. We seem to have been waiting forever to see it, even though we have been able to read it for a while.)
November 18th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
This oft amusing travelogue of writing the book would show children that quality writing doesnt happen by divine intervention.
Largely irrelevant, but why do books released in USA require such explicit covers and/or titles compared to the originals? I can think of a few. Zusak’s “The Messenger” & “Northern Lights” come to mind right now & Lanagan’s cover – why aren’t Americans offended by this trend?
November 19th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Thanks for your thoughts Deb. I don’t get the cover / title change thing either. The US cover for Tales from Outer Suburbia is really quite drab compared to ours. And recently in a listserv someone referred to Markus Zusak’s ‘Getting the Girl’. Huh? I thought – don’t know that one. It took some reading about the plot to realise that it was what we know as ‘Fighting Ruben Wolfe’. Dumbing down? Offence? Don’t know.
Re the writing – some great tips from authors coming through on NaNoWriMo and revise, revise, revise, and then revise again, Watch the John Green video that makes this point in his usual manic style: http://bit.ly/2mltxn