Kids keep asking me if there’s going to be a sequel.
People have been amazed by how much writing and planning a writer does for a graphic novel, as well as the many stages the art goes through. The October events at Crandall Public Library and Northshire Bookstore will be this presentation. A lot of people - including writers - don’t know the process of writing a graphic novel.Īudiences have really enjoyed it. I show the stages the book went through from script to character designs to sketches to final pages and talk about the changes that were made. It’s hard to do a traditional reading for a graphic novel, so I’ve been giving a presentation instead.
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The events really kick off in October, when I’m doing at least one a weekend, plus school visits in New York and Vermont. I’ve done two launch events thus far, one at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Mass., where I currently work as a bookseller, and one at The Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Mass., where I worked when I wrote the book.
The questions are in bold Marika’s responses (lightly edited for space purposes) follow. McCoola has worked (see below).ĭisclosure: This writer has been a proud family friend of Marika’s since the artist-writer was four years old.īelow, we asked her to tell us a little about the Times, the debut of Baba Yaga, and her career. at Northshire Books in Saratoga Springs, one of several independent bookstores where Ms. The official North Country Launch and book signing is Friday, Oct. 30 list of best selling graphic novels.įirst, she’ll give a book talk for all ages at Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls on Thursday, Oct. Baba Yaga’s Assistant, Marika McCoola’s graphic novel for young adults, is #3 on the Times’ Aug. Marika will be at The Chronicle’s 20th anniversary Autumn Leaves Book Fair on Sunday, Nov. To quote the Times, “A teenage girl ventures into the woods and applies for a job as the assistant to Russian folklore’s most infamous witch.” It is illustrated by seasoned graphic novel artist Emily Carroll, and published by Candlewick Press.īaba Yaga eats bad little children, but also admires those, like young Masha in Markia’s modern take on the old tale, who outwit her.
Marika’s book is a young adult novel intended for ages 10-up. (Number One is a Batman title, Number Two is a graphic memoir by famed New Yorker staff cartoonist Roz Chast.) Baba Yaga’s Assistant, the new book by Marika McCoola, age 27 and a 2005 Glens Falls High School graduate, debuted at third on the August 30 New York Times list of best-selling hardcover graphic novels.
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