Cynthea Liu
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Great News!
WOOBY AND PEEP is coming in 2013!
PARIS PAN will be released in Germany!
PARIS PAN is a Scholastic Book Clubs selection!
PARIS PAN and THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA are both APALA Book List selections!
PARIS PAN is an Oklahoma Book Award finalist!
PARIS PAN, nominated for Texas Lone Star Reading List 2010
THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA is a NoveList Best and a Grab-and-Go title!
PARIS PAN is part of the Accelerated Reader program and Scholastic Reading Counts!
Reviews
"The book is well paced and Paris's desire for friendship will ring true with middle school readers." School Library Journal"Liu's story, refreshingly, features a Chinese American narrator whose ethnicity is not at the story's center." Horn Book
Paris Pan Takes the Dare draws you in and won't let you go until the end." TeensReadToo, Gold Star Award for Excellence
"Liu's latest book, Paris Pan Takes the Dare, is a stylish, character-driven story with an appealing, spunky heroine." Chicago Sun Times
Category Archives: THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA
The After-Hours Party is over!
Some of you have taken the term “fashionably late” a little too far. The party’s over but you can still enjoy the movie and the very cold food.
Go ahead and sign the guestbook. Cynthea will forgive your tardiness if you [...]
Party favors for everyone: Celebrate THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA Feb 19, 2009, online release party!
Author Cynthea Liu is celebrating the release of her book THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA (a S.A.S.S. novel). Special announcements will be made all over the Internet, but fans should take note:
A special party for writers will be held at [...]
Writer fans celebrate the launch of THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA
Writer-fans of debut author Cynthea Liu and her savvy bunny Snoop are celebrating all over the the Internet for the release of Cynthea’s first book S.A.S.S. THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA on February 19, 2009. It all began with a [...]
SASS: THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA is touring cyberspace!
SASS: THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA is touring cyberspace beginning February 19, 2009! If you’d like to feature Cynthea for an interview on your lovely home on the Internet, contact her.
Date
Web site
19-Feb
Cheryl Renee Herbsman http://blog.cherylreneeherbsman.com/
20-Feb
R.J. Anderson http://rj-anderson.livejournal.com/
21-Feb
Cindy Pon [...]
How did you do research for THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA? Have you been to China before?
The information I used for the book came from both primary and secondary sources. Mainly primary. When I heard about the S.A.S.S. proposal I knew I had to set the story in Xi’an, China. Most people think of Beijing [...]
How do you manage to get everything done with a baby, your books, and your websites Writing for Children and Teens and AuthorsNow!?
My secret weapon is a wonderful college student named Julia who comes in each day and helps me with Baby Liu. I also drink lots of coffee and stay up often. Before I had Julia’s help though, I survived by [...]
Do you plan your books out carefully beforehand or fly by the seat of your pants?
Usually, I just sit in front of the computer and start typing. For THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA, I knew I was doing something about an adopted teen returning to China. So I did a lot of online research to [...]
Is there anything you learned about writing when creating THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA?
The plotting wasn’t nearly as difficult as writing the story itself. It was incredibly hard to write in the same tone as the series. S.A.S.S. books are very commercial so I had to adapt my writing to ensure the style [...]
How do you deal with writer’s block?
Hmmm… I’m not really sure how I deal with it. If I can’t write, I quit for the day. Does that make writer’s block worse? Or would it be better if I tried to write through it? I have no [...]
My books are available for pre-order!
Lo and behold! My middle grade novel PARIS PAN TAKES THE DARE (ages 8-12) and my teen novel THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA (ages 12+) is available for pre-order on Amazon.com. SWEET!!!