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Dec.13.2010
So many times when I go speak to writers at conferences and workshops or when I do school visits, people ask me, "Where do you get your ideas?" I have a million places where I get my ideas. But the idea for my first novel Boy Proof came from working a totally odd job. I was working for...
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Sep.19.2010
I first read Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak after I bought it at a conference that I attended where she was giving the key note speech. I had just sold my first novel Boy Proof and she signed my book.
The inscription read: To Cecil, Who is speaking out in her own books now.
Maybe she signs that in...
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Aug.21.2009
Today I find myself at the beginning of a voyage. I'm away from home and will be for a while. But before I settle at my true destination, I am making a pit stop in Montreal to visit my parents. While here, I always do one thing. I come to my favorite cafe, Cafe Laika, to write. I have been...
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About Cecil
Cecil Castellucci has published three novels for young adults, Boy Proof, The Queen of Cool and Beige all on Candlewick Press. She also wrote the graphic novels The PLAIN Janes and Janes in Love illustrated by Jim Rugg, which was the launch title for DC...
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Interstitial Art Foundation
Doctors Without Borders