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Exclusive Book Trailer Release and Giveaway

We’re excited to premiere the book trailer for for Vanessa Blakeslee’s debut novel, Juventud, out October 31st from Curbside Splendor! To celebrate the book’s release, Curbside Splendor is giving away five copies…

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Letters Blog

Next Letter in the Mail: Matthew Salesses

We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from author Matthew Salesses! Matthew writes to us about equality, possibilities, and missing Linsanity. And we’re offering a…

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Next Letter for Kids: A. B. Westrick

We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from A. B. Westrick, author of Brotherhood! Anne writes to us about one of her special kitties, Pokey, who lived to be twenty years…

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Let’s Get Cozy: A Letters in the Mail Special Promotion

The cool weather is approaching and The Rumpus wants to help you curl up with a good book! Purchase a yearly Letters in the Mail subscription anytime during the month of September, and you’ll receive…

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Letters for Kids Book Giveaway and Letter-Writing Contest

We’re doing another Letters for Kids giveaway! Win a copy of Operation Pucker Up, signed by the author Rachele Alpine! (Rachele also writes our next letter.) To enter, leave a comment on this…

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Next Letter in the Mail: Martha Bayne

We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from our own Sunday Editor Martha Bayne! Martha writes us a moving and wide-ranging letter about Greece,…

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Next Letter for Kids: Rachele Alpine

We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Rachele Alpine, author of Operation Pucker Up! Rachele writes us a very colorfully illustrated letter about “accidental mischief”. She gives lots of funny examples of…

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Next Letter in the Mail: Chad Prevost

We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Chad Prevost! Chad writes to us about the history, both interesting and creepy, of his home and the…

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Next Letter for Kids: Erin Fry

We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Erin Fry! Erin writes to us about her love of hiking and because she gets lost a lot, her love of maps. Don’t miss…

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Requests, Anyone?

Tomorrow Rumpus columnist Allyson McCabe will begin hosting “FM Mutations,” a new radio show on Bridgeport, CT station 89.5 FM WPKN (and online at WPKN.org). Every 5th Wednesday of the month from noon till…

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Letters for Kids Signed Book Giveaway

We’re doing another Letters for Kids giveaway! Win a hardcover edition of Mom, There’s a Dinosaur in Beeson’s Lake from the Secrets of a Lab Rat series, signed by illustrator Jim Paillot! (Jim…

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Next Letter in the Mail: Camille Dungy

We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from author Camille Dungy! Camille writes to us from The Island of Beautiful Women about discipline, dedication,…

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