Kid Lit Salon - Lewis Buzbee, N.H. Senzai & Emily Whitman
Speakers: N.H. Senzai, Lewis Buzbee and Emily Whitman
Corte Madera store
Kid Lit Salon Panel #22
Monday,
September 27, 2010, 7:00-9:00 pm
N.H. Senzai, Lewis Buzbee and Emily Whitman
N.H. Senzai grew up speaking
two languages, balancing life lived on the edge of two cultures. She got
on a plane for the first time at two months, in Chicago, IL, where she
was born, and has been traveling ever since. She grew up in San
Francisco, Jubail, Saudi Arabia, and attended boarding school in London,
England where she was voted “most likely to lead a literary revolution”
due to her ability to get away with reading comic books in class. She's
hiked across the Alps, road-tripped through Mexico, swam with
barracudas in the Red Sea, taken a train across the Soviet Union,
floated down the Nile, eaten gumbo in New Orleans and sat in
contemplation at the Taj Mahal. Somewhere along the way she attended UC
Berkeley and Columbia University, while pursuing her passion for
writing. She's landed back home in San Francisco where she lives with
her husband, a professor of political science, her son, and a cat who
owns them. During the day she can be found working for a consulting firm
that helps companies with their inventions and patents. Shooting Kabul is her debut novel. You can find out more about her on her website www.nhsenzai.com.
Lewis Buzbee is the author of Fliegelman's Desire, After the Gold Rush, and The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop. Steinbeck's Ghost,
his first novel for younger readers, was selected as the California
Library Association's John and Patricia Beatty Award, a Smithsonian
Notable Book, a Northern California Book Award nominee, and the Northern
California Independent Booksellers Children's Book of the Year. His
next novel, The Haunting of Charles Dickens,
will be published in 2010, followed in 2011 by Mark Twain and the
Mysterious Stranger. He teaches in the MFA Program at the University of
San Francisco. http://us.macmillan.com/author/lewisbuzbee
Emily Whitman used to dream of a time travel camp to the past. Now she travels to different worlds as the author of YA novels. Her new book, Wildwing, is a time travel tale of romance, intrigue, and the wisdom of following your own heart; spending time with peregrine falcons was a research highlight. Emily’s debut novel, Radiant Darkness, was praised for its “originality and flair” by BCCB and was a #1 IndieBound Pick. A native of Boulder, Colorado, Emily attended Harvard and U.C. Berkeley. She has taught at the Pacific Northwest Children’s Book Conference, written for educational publishers, worked in library reference, and faced a room of 60 for toddler storytime. She lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.
When Addy is swept back in time, she couldn't be happier to leave her miserable life behind. Now she's mistaken for Lady Matilda, the pampered ward of the king. If Addy can play her part, she'll have glorious gowns, jewels, and something she's always longed for—the respect and admiration of others. But then she meets Will, the falconer's son with sky blue eyes, who unsettles all her plans.
From shipwrecks to castle dungeons, from betrothals to hidden conspiracies, Addy finds herself in a world where she’s not the only one with a dangerous secret. When she discovers the truth, Addy must take matters into her own hands. The stakes? Her chance at true love . . . and the life she's meant to live. www.emilywhitman.com
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Kid Lit Salon
Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators Salon • Led by Lissa Rovetch
4th Monday each month • 7:00-9:00 pm • $120 per year
The Kid Lit Salon is for both established and beginning children’s book writers and illustrators. Come socialize with like-minded, creative types in your field. Our evenings include a wildly diverse array of speakers, member updates, events, conferences, and insider tips. Writer and illustrator Lissa
Rovetch is the author of Ook the
Book
and the Hot Dog
and Bob chapter book series.
She illustrated her 84 year-old mother's book There
Was a Man
Who Loved a Rat and Other Vile Little Poems,
writes the "Ask Arizona" series for Highlights Magazine, and teaches at the
California College of the Arts. Vist www.lissarovetch.com.
- Street:
- Book Passage
- Additional:
- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
- City:
- Corte Madera ,
- Province:
- California
- Postal Code:
- 94925
- Country:
- United States
