Rocking Around the Holidays
I’ve joined with some of my awesome blogging friends to offer a fantastic giveaway! From now, until December 23 we’re giving you the inside scoop and behind the scenes with Rock Star Authors.
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To celebrate the holiday season there’s a HUGE contest to go along with it – which includes 2 ipad Minis, Signed books by all of the authors, gift cards galore and much, much more!
Today’s Author
About Andrea Davis Pinkney
Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of many books for children and young adults, including picture books, novels, works of historical fiction and non-fiction.
She is the author of several notable titles, including the novels Bird in a Box and the forthcoming With the Might of Angels, a book in the Dear America series. Andrea has also written the illustrated books Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, a Parents’ Choice Award winner; Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride, a 2010 Jane Addams Honor Book and School Library Journal Best Book of the Year; the Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book,Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, which also won the Carter G. Woodson Award for historical works for young people; Duke Ellington, a Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor Book; and Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation, a featured selection on Oprah and Friends radio.
Additionally, Andrea is a publishing executive, who has held key positions at several publishing companies. She was named one of the “25 Most Influential Black Women in Business” by The Network Journal, a publication for Black professionals, and was selected as one of the “25 Most Influential People in Our Children’s Lives” by Children’s Health Magazine.
Andrea lives in New York City with her husband and frequent collaborator, award-winning illustrator Brian Pinkney, and their two children.
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Behind the Scenes with Andrea Davis Pinkney
Don’t let anybody tell you New York City is a dark, noisy place.
Though my home office is in the middle of inner city Brooklyn, it’s a quiet light-filled cubby that I call my SSS ― my “Secret Sunny Sanctuary.”
I start my day at 4:00 am. Every morning my desk and laptop greet me like open palms. My “SSS” welcomes a new day of writing possibility, made beautiful by the rising light that winks into both windows, encouraging me like a friend.
Holiday Cheer with Andrea Davis Pinkney
Q. Favorite Holiday memory as an adult
A. Having my picture taken with Santa, who turned out to be a resident of my favorite vacation spot in upstate, NY.
Q. Favorite Holiday memory as a child
A. See Mommy kissing Santa Claus
Q. Best gift you’ve ever received
A. Watching my daughter’s eyes fill with delight when she received a college acceptance letter to her first choice 10 days before Christmas.
Q. Favorite holiday food
A. A gorgeous juicy grapefruit.
Q. Favorite holiday movie
A. It’s a Wonderful Life
Q. Do you prefer a snowy or vacationing (tropical island) holiday?
A. Give me my Brooklyn neighborhood!
Q. What’s your favorite wintery activity?
A. HOT DATE FOR ME AND MY HUBBY: One-on-one ice hockey!
Giveaway
Follow Along with Rocking the Holidays tomorrow, December 4th where author Luanne Rice will be featured on the sites listed below, plus there will be ways to enter the contest daily!
http://www.PerusingPrincesses.com
http://bookgroupies2.blogspot.com/
http://daydreambelieverbooks.blogspot.com
