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Taught by: Leslie C. Youngblood
Where:
Just Buffalo Writing Center
468 Washington Street, 2nd Floor
Buffalo, NY 14203
Dates: Saturday, October 13
Time: 1:00–4:00 p.m.
Cost: $50 | $40 for members

Chat with author Leslie C. Youngblood about her more than fifteen-year journey to land her two-book deal with Disney Hyperion. What kept her motivated after hundreds of rejections? Why Middle Grade? What does a “two-book deal.” really mean. She’ll answer these questions and more. Plus, pose your questions and she will do her best to give you the real deal.

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About Leslie C. Youngblood

Leslie C. Youngblood is the author of the forthcoming Middle-Grade novel, Love Like Sky (Disney Hyperion, November 6 release). Honors and awards include a 2014 Yaddo’s Elizabeth Ames Residency; a 2010 Go On Girl! Book Club Aspiring Writer Award; the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Prize; a Hurston Wright Fellowship; and the Room of Her Own Foundation’s 2009 Orlando Short Story Prize. Youngblood received her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and served as a columnist and assistant editor for Atlanta Tribune: The Magazine. She has taught as an assistant professor of creative writing at Lincoln University in Jefferson City as well as Writers & Books in Rochester, NY where she was raised and currently lives.

About LOVE LIKE SKY

G-baby and her younger sister, Peaches, are still getting used to their “blended-up” family. They live with Mama and Frank out in the suburbs, and they haven’t seen their real daddy much since he married Millicent. G-baby misses her best friend back in Atlanta, and is crushed that her glamorous new stepsister, Tangie, wants nothing to do with her.

G-baby is so preoccupied with earning Tangie’s approval that she isn’t there for her own little sister when she needs her most. Peaches gets sick-really sick. Suddenly, Mama and Daddy are arguing like they did before the divorce, and even the doctors at the hospital don’t know how to help Peaches get better.

It’s up to G-baby to put things right. She knows Peaches can be strong again if she can only see that their family’s love for her really is like sky