{"id":2404,"date":"2012-08-09T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T06:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2012-08-11T14:56:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T20:56:25","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-will-hillenbrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2404","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Will Hillenbrand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“This particular morning, the bear saw something on the flat rock in the clearing outside his cave. ‘What is that?’ the bear said. It was orange and long and pointy
and had green bushy leaves at one end.”<\/em>
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This morning at Kirkus<\/em>, I have a brief conversation with Brian McMullen, who created the McMullens children’s book imprint over at McSweeney’s<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, now in its second year. Brian serves as Art Director and imprint editor and is, as you may have guessed, the namesake for the imprint. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Tomorrow at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ll have some thoughts on Fall 2012 picture book titles I’m extra-eager to see. Actually, they’re titles I’ve already seen—books for which I got a sneak peek at some F&Gs—and whose releases I anticipate with downright glee. (I had fun writing this. I got crazy-inspired and wrote it a while back, but Kirkus<\/em> wanted to post it now-ish, closer to Fall release dates.) That link will be here<\/a><\/strong> on Friday morning. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote about the utterly charming Bear in Love<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (to be released by Candlewick in mid-August), written by Daniel Pinkwater<\/a><\/strong> and illustrated by Will Hillenbrand<\/a><\/strong>. That is here<\/a><\/strong>, if you missed it last week and are so inclined to read more about it. <\/p>\n

Here’s one more spread from the book. Enjoy. <\/p>\n

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BEAR IN LOVE. Text copyright \u00a9 2012 by Daniel Pinkwater. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2012 by Will Hillenbrand. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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