"Congratulations, Mike! I thought the analogy between coaching and writing was very interesting!
Today the very first blog review of my book Gadget Girl was posted…"
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Suzanne Linn Kamata commented on Georgia McBride's group Middle Grade Lair"I have a little bit of news myself. A rather lengthy excerpt of my novel HOME BASE, which was a submission of the month in Submissions Mailbox a year or so ago, was accepted for publication in CRICKET MAGAZINE.
I'm pretty excited…"
Suzanne Linn Kamata commented on Georgia McBride's group Middle Grade Lair"Congrats, April! Good luck finding a publisher!!"
Amna S. Hashmi left a comment for Suzanne Linn Kamata"Hey hon! Thanks! Yeah we certainly do need to address teen moms ..its part of our real world!
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Suzanne Linn Kamata replied to Georgia McBride's discussion An Agent for the Holidays"Name: Suzanne Kamata
Category: YA
Genre: Historical
Pitch:
Seventeen-year-old Trudy Baxter wants to move beyond foster homes, her debutante mom and deadbeat dad, and the juvenile detention center. To make things better - and to attract the attention…"
Suzanne Linn Kamata commented on Georgia McBride's group Middle Grade Lair"Happy Birthday Beverly! Wishing you lots of success in in the coming year!"
Suzanne Linn Kamata commented on Georgia McBride's group Middle Grade Lair"Thanks! I'm happy with it, too!"
Suzanne Linn Kamata commented on Georgia McBride's group Middle Grade Lair"Here's the cover of my forthcoming book!!
http://www.amazon.com/Gadget-Girl-Art-Being-Invisible/dp/1936846381/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1351075073&sr=1-1"
Suzanne Linn Kamata commented on Georgia McBride's group Middle Grade Lair"Thank you for the birthday wishes!! One of my best gifts this year was finding that my upper midgrade/lower YA novel GADGET GIRL is now available on Amazon, etc.!! No cover yet, but it seems like more of a…"
Suzanne Linn Kamata commented on Georgia McBride's group Middle Grade Lair"I was very happy to be awarded a YALitchat Marketing Grant, which I will use to purchase and mail giveaway copies of my forthcoming YA novel GADGET GIRL. Thank you so much, everyone at YALitchat (especially Georgia) for your support!!"
Suzanne Linn Kamata commented on Georgia McBride's group Middle Grade Lair"Wonderful, Darby! Congratulations!!
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Suzanne Linn Kamata commented on Georgia McBride's group Middle Grade Lair"Wonderful, Darby! Congratulations!!
And happy birthday - belatedly - and congrats to you, MIke."
StaffKatie Wright left a comment for Suzanne Linn Kamata
"Hey Suzanne,
Is it possible that you could email your first 500 words and your 1-2 sentence bio for the newsletter? (I know you already did this once, but I can't seem to find it.)
If you don't mind…"
StaffKatie Wright left a comment for Suzanne Linn Kamata
"Hey Suzanne,
Is it possible that you could email your first 500 words and your 1-2 sentence bio for the newsletter? (I know you already did this once, but I can't seem to find it.)
If you don't mind :)
Thanks!"
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Born and raised in Michigan, and most recently from South Carolina, I now live in Japan with my husband and twins. I'm the author of a novel for adults - Losing Kei (Leapfrog Press, 2008), a short story collection, The Beautiful One Has Come (Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, 2011) and the editor of three anthologies, as well as the author of a picture book, Playing for Papa, published by Topka Books in Spain. MY YA debut, Gadget Girl, is forthcoming from GemmaMedia in 2013.
I've published short stories for young adults in Cicada, Hunger Mountain, Sucker Literary Magazine (forthcoming) and the anthology Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction - An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories.
I'm also the publicity assistant for SCBWI-Tokyo.
Some of my favorite y/a writers are Holly Thompson, Tamara Ireland Stone, Stephanie Perkins, Laurie Halse Anderson, Laura Resau, Beth Kephart, and Ellen Hopkins.
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Comment Wall (12 comments)
- At 8:10pm on December 5, 2012, Amna S. Hashmi said…
Hey hon! Thanks! Yeah we certainly do need to address teen moms ..its part of our real world!
- At 12:08am on September 29, 2012,
StaffLaura Chesterson said… To Suzanne
From Laura and YALitChat!
- At 2:55pm on June 29, 2012,
StaffKatie Wright said… Hey Suzanne,
Is it possible that you could email your first 500 words and your 1-2 sentence bio for the newsletter? (I know you already did this once, but I can't seem to find it.)
If you don't mind :)
Thanks!
- At 6:14pm on June 2, 2012,
StaffStephanie Feuer said… - You made my day !
- At 10:07pm on May 28, 2012,
Amanda Schoen said… Thanks, Suzanne. It's updated!
- At 7:35am on March 3, 2012,
StaffLM Preston said… Congrats on your request!
- At 10:23am on February 10, 2012,
Kathleen Nelson said… Thank you so much! Some of the panelists already have my fulls from queries sent before doing submissions mailbox. Every day I am freaking out before opening my email!!!
Much luck to you also because your story sounds like a great one!
- At 7:01pm on February 4, 2012, Amanda Schoen said…
Hey Suzanne -
Can you email your first 500 words and query to agentmailbox@yalitchat.org? We never received it, and we're trying to get subs to the panel tonight. Thanks!
Amanda Schoen
- At 10:16pm on January 24, 2012,
Leslie Rose said… Suzanne you are so sweet. Thank you. I hope you have the power of prophecy!
- At 12:30pm on November 8, 2011,
Michelle Witte said… - I just wanted to let you know that I love the title of your book. It really jumped out at me, so excellent work. :)
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