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LOUISE HAWES

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About Me

HELLO
from the author of
WAITING FOR CHRISTOPHER,
ROSEY IN THE PRESENT TENSE,
and
THE VANISHING POINT I've published over a dozen books, mostly for young adults. You'll see the covers of some of them in the slide show below. If they're familiar and you loved one or two, I'd be thrilled to hear from you in my comments section!
What's new? Last year I published a picture book for the kid in you, Muti's Necklace, and out this spring was a collection of short stories for adults, Anteaters Don't Dream. (You can learn more about all these titles at amazon or on my other website.)
And finally, because writers are always most charged up about their current project, I want you fantasy fans to know I have a collection of dark (as in so dark, you'll have to feel your way through the pages!) fairy tales just out from Houghton Mifflin. Black Pearls, A Faerie Strand is illustrated, so all you GN afficianados will have some eye candy while you read :-)
Want to write yourself? Check out the ShopTalk link on my site, and however else you prep yourself for a career as an author, READ, READ, READ!

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I'd like to meet:

I live in North Carolina and teach in an MFA in Writing program in Vermont, so I'd love to hear from Tar Heel and Green Mountain folks. But truth be told, it matters less where you live than that you're a friend, a reader, and someone who walks your talk about peace, love and healing.
My Other Website is:www.louisehawes.com

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My Blog

Behind the Cover

The Inside StoryFirst, let me tell you that the cover of my new book, Black Pearls, a Faerie Strand (due out in April), is wicked. It titillates. It's lush and clever. It makes you look twice. It puts...
Posted by LOUISE HAWES on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:49:00 PST

Cover Girls

Cover Story(and a new paperback!)Ever wonder how much say authors have on the cover of their books? I suppose if you're J.K. Rowling or John Grisham, you can pretty much call the shots. But if ...
Posted by LOUISE HAWES on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:43:00 PST

Myspace: Spawn of Satan?

Making Friends and Keeping Them Libraries are banning it. Parents are blocking it. Countless folks over 40 are dissing, hissing, and spitting. Myspace has certainly attracted its share of nay-saye...
Posted by LOUISE HAWES on Wed, 02 May 2007 08:52:00 PST

VA TECH -- An Antidote

On the Bright Side...The other night I spoke to some three hundred people about writing. I didn't want this gig. For one thing, it was a freebie, a favor to my local bookstore and to my community. F...
Posted by LOUISE HAWES on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:33:00 PST

God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut...

A VONNEGUT MEMORY TO SHAREMy generation's angry, sarcastic, brilliant spokesman is dead. Kurt Vonnegut wrote Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, and a host of other novels that ...
Posted by LOUISE HAWES on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:10:00 PST

File Under Embarrasing Moments...

The Joke's on Me!So I'm doing a reading in a bookstore last weekend, and it's April 1st. (I should know better, right?) I decide to play a little April Fool's joke on the audience, and I tell them tha...
Posted by LOUISE HAWES on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:06:00 PST

A Dreamy Library...

In My Dream Library! In a galaxy far, far away, in my dream library, there would be NO age sections at all. Divisions, if any, would be by genre or content, not readership. Picture, if you will, an...
Posted by LOUISE HAWES on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:13:00 PST

From the Shameless Promotion Department:

So the new book is just out! Anteaters Don't Dream and Other Stories is published by a literary (picture noses toward the ceiling and a mortar board on every editor's head) press, which means a micros...
Posted by LOUISE HAWES on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:16:00 PST