Maya Gottfried's Blog

• Because, because, because, because, because....

  October 15, 2009

  • My cousin's grandmother was a "Lady" in England. As in royalty. Not the grandmother that we shared, but his other grandmother, on his mother's side. In my young mind she belonged to that magical royal realm of princes and princesses that I associated more with fairy tales than with financial gluttony and scandal. I used to wonder if the fact that she was his grandmother somehow made ...
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• Call for... agents?

  July 13, 2009

  • Hey all:Who knew it was so hard to find an agent? Well, I guess most of us did.I'm trying to find someone to represent my writing for adults, and am not really getting anywhere... it's tough to get folks' attention! I've written 2 books for Knopf Books for Young Readers (which both have won awards), and have a 3rd children's book, Our Farm: By the Animals of Farm Sanctuary, due out in the ...
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• Our Farm: By the Animals of Farm Sanctuary (Knopf Books for Young Readers) February, 2010

  May 24, 2009

  • Hey everyone:Well now that the cover art is up on Amazon, I'd like to share with you that I have a new book for children, slated for publication via Knopf Books for Young Readers in the Spring of 2010. Our Farm: By the Animals of Farm Sanctuary celebrates the beautiful non-human animal residents of Farm Sanctuary, a national organization devoted to protecting farm animals. Once again I ...
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• welcome

  July 20, 2008

  • Hi everyone: Welcome to my first blog entry at this site. Which isn't, in fact, my first blog entry, but it is at this site. It seems like it would make sense to centralize one's blogs, or coordinate them. I think I'll make this my place to blog. Except when I feel like posting Duran Duran videos in which case I'll bump over to MySpace or Last.fm. So what to blog about? I could blog about my two ...
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