My Busy Fall
I’ve just updated the “Upcoming Events” section of my website and–whew!–I’ve got a lot coming up this fall! The big highlight for me will be accepting the 2012 Crystal Kite Award for the Americas region for Witchlanders. That will happen at the Ottawa SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) conference where I’ll be giving a short presentation about how we writers can navigate the fine line between following the market and following our passion. The thing I’m most nervous about is the Packaging Your Imagination...
Read MoreHear my first audio interview!
Many of you know that there are some video interviews of me out there, and God knows I have done enough blog interviews about Witchlanders to choke the internet, but I had never actually done a radio or audio interview until I was asked by the folks at CNIB, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, to do an interview to promote the books in their collection, Witchlanders being one of them. The interview, plus a short audio excerpt of Witchlanders will air a few times over the next few weeks. The first time you can hear it is tomorrow (Saturday) at noon (full schedule below). It airs...
Read MoreABOVE by Leah Bobet
Today on Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Cynsations, I interview the utterly lovely Leah Bobet, whose fantasy debut ABOVE was called a “dark, dazzling tale” in a starred Publishers Weekly review! Have a...
Read MoreDeal News!
Ahhhh! I have been sitting on this news forever, but my agent tells me that the deal for my forthcoming book has been announced in Publishers Marketplace. I am so thrilled, delighted, nervous–and many other adjectives!–to be working with legendary editor Susan van Metre at Abrams and also with my former colleague at the CCBC and longtime friend, Hadley Dyer of HarperCollins Canada. Here it is! (Note: You won’t be able to follow the links in the announcement unless you have a PW subscription) Crystal Kite Award-winner Lena Coakley’s THE WORLDS BELOW, an historical...
Read MoreEditor Interview: Christie Harkin of Fitzhenry & Whiteside
I had such a wonderful time getting to know Christie Harkin, children’s editor at Fitzhenry & Whiteside books, when I interviewed her for Cynthia Leitich Smith’s blog. Read all about it over on Cynsations today, where I’m...
Read MoreAbout Me
Hi! I'm Lena, a young adult fantasy author from Toronto.