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Exile-Anne Osterlund

“It’s here! It’s here!” Aurelia sings. Her second book, Exile, just came out in stores. (Aurelia thinks this is very convenient timing since everyone is talking about a certain other princess at the moment). There are sample chapters now available on the book excerpt page of my website if you wish to check them out. And I would like to say thank you to all the bloggers who have and are taking the time review the book. Links are available to their reviews, as well as whole slew of author interviews and guest posts, via my blog.

Award News!

Academy 7, my second book, won the Spirit of Oregon Award this year for being “a distinguished contribution to young adult literature that engages and encourages readers' imagination, discovery, and understanding.” The Oregon Council of Teachers of English selected the book as the best young adult novel of the year by an Oregon author. Academy 7 was also chosen as a finalist for the Oregon Book Award sponsored by Literary Arts and was nominated by ALA/YALSA as a popular paperback (in the same category as The Hunger Games, no less). I am so proud of Aerin and Dane! Their starred review from VOYA is now posted on my website, as well as one from School Library Journal and reviews from several of my favorite young adult authors: Tamora Pierce, Sherwood Smith, and Sally Watson.

Portland Writing Festival

Next weekend, all my characters and I are off to present for four hundred of the best middle school student writers in the state! The Portland Writing Festival is an amazing event, encouraging imagination, creativity, and a passion for writing. Aurelia, Robert, Aerin, Dane, and I are greatly honored to be chosen as part of this incredible experience.

Author’s Thoughts

In honor of Exile’s release, I also thought you might enjoy a random, behind the scenes look at my own personal journey throughout Robert and Aurelia’s expedition. . .

Exile began with Aurelia, of course.

She has always insisted on a sequel to her first book—at least as far back as I can recall.

Though, technically, I started typing the initial draft of Exile the weekend after my first submission deadline for Academy 7.

Vroom! We were off—Robert, Aurelia, and I, thundering through their expedition.

Of course, there were certain things Aurelia didn’t inform me of in that first draft.

The forest, for example. Silly me, I thought the Asyan Forest was the setting for a single chapter. Little did I know it was going to snatch us up and refuse to let us leave. I spent an entire Christmas in the forest. The beginning of the following summer, we were still there.

And then I had to take a detour into the draft for a different book.

Ooh! Aurelia was mad! “You’ve leaving us stuck here!” she yelled at me. “How can you leave us here?!”

I used logic.

My publisher used logic.

My brand new agent, Kelly Sonnack from the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, used logic.

Guess who won?

Not anyone using logic.

By the end of the summer, Aurelia, Robert, and I were out of the forest and onto the frontier (definitely worth the struggle) with the scariest deadline I’ve ever had in my life.

Aurelia, on the other hand, was happy.


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*GRACIAS A LA AUTORA POR LA NOTA DE PRENSA
*THANKS ANNE FOR THE NEWS

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  1. ¡Qué buena pinta! Así que ya está aquí, ya está aquí ¿eh?
    Gracias por la info, guapa. La novela pinta muy bien (¡y es ganadora de un premio!)
    Y gracias por el link de la reseña.

    Besotes ^^

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