David lubar author biography template

Personal

Born Pace, 1954, remit Morristown, NJ; son bring in a naval officer famous a librarian; married; children: Alison. Education: Rutgers Lincoln, B.A. (philosophy).

Addresses

Home and office—Nazareth, PA. E-mail—[email protected].

Career

Creative Computing journal, editor, 1980-82; has along with worked despite the fact that a video-game designer, technologist, and program for companies such monkey Activision standing Atari, technique 1982.

Awards, Honors

Garden State Teenaged Book Bestow nomination (NJ), South Carolina Young-Adult Exact Award connection, Volunteer Return Book Grant (TN) appointment, and Sequoyah Young-Adult Whole Award recommendation, and Land Library League Best Volume for Lush Adults appellation, all 1999, all be thankful for Hidden Talents; KSRA Young-Adult Book Accord, 2002, get on to Dunk; Stops Thumbs Society Award, 2006, for Sleeping Freshmen Not at any time Lie; Seamless Sense Adopt, 2007, on the side of True Talents.

Writings

FICTION

The Unwilling Witch, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1997.

The Witch's Monkey take Other Tales ("Psychozone" series; also supervise below), Skin (New Dynasty, NY), 1997.

Kidzilla and New Tales ("Psychozone" series; too see below), Tor (New York, NY), 1997.

The Vacillation Werewolf, Pedagogic (New Dynasty, NY), 1997.

The Vanishing Vampire, Turtleback Books (M

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The Big Idea: David Lubar

Posted on March 4, 2016    Posted by John Scalzi      7 Comments

Fun fact: Back in the day, I edited a humor area for AOL, and one of my regular contributors was a fellow named David Lubar, who wrote reliably funny and interesting stuff (this is a more rare talent than you might expect). Here in the future, both David and I are authors, him primarily of middle grade and young adult books, the latest of which is Character, Driven. I’m delighted to have seen David do so well, and I know for a fact David’s proud of what he’s pulled off in this new book, which has managed starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly. Here he is to tell you what he’s done, and how.

DAVID LUBAR:

Character, Driven begins with a bang, a chase, a tumble down the stairs, and snapping bones. It then slams to a dead stop against the brick wall of narrative intrusion as our hero discusses the importance of grabbing the reader with a strong opening. That scene lay untouched on my hard drive for ages, along with scads of other sentences, paragraphs, passages, and chapters I’d written over the decades in an attempt to bolster the self deception that every writing day is a productive

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Cynsations

David Lubar’s books include: HIDDEN TALENTS (Tor, 1999); DUNK (Clarion, 2002); and WIZARDS OF THE GAME (Philomel, 2003). This interview was conducted via email in July-August 2002. Visit: David Lubar.

Humor writing is obviously important to you. Could you tell us about writing humor, perhaps offering some advice to beginning writers? Why do you think humor appeals so much to young readers?

Funny you should ask. The world is far too serious a place, especially for kids. Some people act as if laughter doesn’t belong in education. That’s dead wrong.

Kids need to explore, experiment, create, and have fun.

Humor is one of the extreme edges of creativity. You’re putting together connections that, at first, don’t seem to belong. Then, click, the mind sees the leap, and you laugh. A joke is a miniature invention. A funny scene is as valid a work of art, and as breathtaking, as a sonata. Humor is an aerobic workout for the mind.

The best advice I can give beginning writers is, don’t try too hard. Let it flow. Forced humor isn’t funny. Let the humor arise from the situation. Relax, have fun, and send your inner critic off on an errand.

One caution: if you’re writing for young readers, remember that they don’t share many