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Amy Lou holds a BSN in Nursing and Professional Communication and
an MFA in Literature and Creative Writing from Bennington College. She teaches
as a university adjunct and at writing retreats, conferences and workshops. She also writes a quarterly book review column for the Sierra Club’s Muir View and a writing site at www.Anthologiesonline.com. She’s read her essays on Wisconsin and Alaska public radio and been a radio guest on dozens of shows. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband, son, and two spoiled dogs.
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| teaser image for the seventh book in Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid series
Romance is set to enter the world of Wimpy Kid Greg
Heffley in the latest instalment of Jeff Kinney's smash hit
series, which is due out in November.
The illustrated Wimpy Kid books, peppered with handwritten notes and cartoon
illustrations, trace the daily trials and tribulations of computer game nerd
Greg. The first novel, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, was voted best children's book of
the decade by Blue Peter viewers earlier this month
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/01/wimpy-kid-harry-potter-blue-peter-poll],
beating Harry Potter, while the sixth novel in the series, Cabin Fever, was the
bestselling children's book of 2011 in the UK, spending eight weeks at number
one and selling one copy every four seconds in its first week on sale.
With
worldwide sales topping 75m copies to date, Puffin is predicting that the
seventh book will be one of the bestselling titles of 2012. Its publication was
announced yesterday by Kinney at the biggest annual event in children's
publishing, the Bologna Children's Book Fair.
Little has been given away yet about the book's
contents – even its title remains a secret – but a teaser image reveals that
"love is in the air", while Kinney told
publishers in Bologna that the storyline would centre around a school dance,
and a love interest would enter the picture.
"I've only written about a third of it," he said. "And I haven't drawn a
single picture yet. But it's all in my head and on my phone."
Fans of the
series will be glad to know that the author has no plans of hanging up his pen
just yet. "I'm still having a lot of fun with the books, and there are still a
lot of stories to tell," he said in Bologna.
Alison Flood
guardian.co.uk
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Cynthia Kocialski is the founder of three companies, has been involved with
dozens of start-ups, and has worked with established companies to bring start-up
techniques and technologies to corporations desiring to process improvement and
efficiency. Prior to this, she held numerous technical, marketing, and
management positions at major corporations, with responsibilities including
developing financial software, engineering management of scientific
workstations, and overseeing technical marketing and strategic planning for
graphics and digital video components for personal computers. Kocialski writes
the popular Start-up Entrepreneurs’ Blog, which covers observations, lessons,
and humorous stories of life inside hi-tech start-ups, and is the author of
Startup from the Ground Up. Raised in Buffalo, New York, her career has taken
her to New York City, Washington, D.C., Miami, and San Francisco. She is a
graduate of the University of Rochester and University of Virginia.
