Success! About a hundred people showed up at my local library yesterday to help me celebrate the release of my first picture book, My Cat Isis, illustrated by Virginie Egger, published by Kids Can Press earlier this month. Yes, that read, "a hundred." Good thing my library had such a nice big room to hold them.… Continue reading Book Launch Afterword (II)
Author: Catherine Austen
I'm a Canadian author of books for all ages. My short stories are published in literary journals including The Fiddlehead and The New Quarterly. My books for young readers have won multiple awards, including the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award and the Quebec Writers Federation Prize for Children's Literature. I live with my family in Gatineau, Quebec.
Book Launch
Need I say more? Well, maybe... There will be food: grapes, cinnamon cookies, date squares, cheese and crackers -- anything with a connection to Ancient Egyptian agriculture, however flimsy -- plus coffee, tea, and juices they never even heard of 5,000 years ago. The walls will be decorated with pet-related artwork from Lord Aylmer Elementary School students, plus informational… Continue reading Book Launch
On Bookshelves Now!
It's out at last! My Cat Isis was released by Kids Can Press on March 1, 2011. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. My Cat Isis is my first picture book, and it's on the list of spring children's titles in Publisher's Weekly. Scroll through to K for Kids Can Press, and you'll see my name amidst dozens of well-known… Continue reading On Bookshelves Now!
Dreaded Edits
"Editing is the same as quarreling with writers -- same thing exactly." - Harold Ross, founder of The New Yorker magazine I am SO happy because I have finished Round One of edits on both my teen novel, All Good Children, and my middle-grade novel, Title Being Rewritten as Part of the Editing Process. I have… Continue reading Dreaded Edits
How not to Conquer Internet Shyness
I've been reluctant to blog this week because I lost control of myself on the world wide web. No, I didn't freak out. Not that kind of loss. A more subtle kind. Someone -- with the best intentions of promoting me as an author -- signed me up to a slew of blogs and microblogs and networking sites, and then posted strange things on… Continue reading How not to Conquer Internet Shyness
Catherine Austen 