Deborah Noyes's Blog
September 11, 2015
Grateful for the good words ...
...from three amazing writers. Thank you!
“In Ten Days a Madwoman, Deborah Noyes gives us a compelling portrait of Nellie Bly, the audacious young reporter who risked her own safety to expose social injustice. Vividly written and gorgeously illustrated, the book brings fully to life a heroine of her time — and ours.” — Matthew Goodman, bestselling author of Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World
"Ten Days a Madwoman thrilled and terrified me at the same time. I'd heard of Nellie Bly as a crusading reporter, but had no idea how daring, impetuous, and smart she was. I've got a new hero." -- Elizabeth Partridge, National Book Award Finalist and Printz Honor-winning author of John Lennon and This Land Was Made for You and Me."
“Noyes delivers a riveting narrative of one of our cleverest and most resourceful heroines, zeroing in on Nellie Bly’s first exposé, and putting us right in the madhouse alongside sane women being driven crazy.” —Tanya Lee Stone, Sibert Medalist and NAACP Image Award–winning author of Almost Astronauts and Courage Has No Color
August 1, 2015
Ten Days a Madwoman
Work for a New York newspaper
Fall in love
Marry a millionaire
Change the world
Young Nellie Bly had ambitious goals, especially for a woman at the end of the nineteenth century, when the few female journalists were relegated to writing columns about cleaning or fashion. But fresh off a train from Pittsburgh, Nellie knew she was destined for more and pulled a major journalistic stunt that skyrocketed her to fame: feigning insanity, being committed to the notorious asylum on Blackwell’s Island, and writing a shocking exposé of the clinic’s horrific treatment of its patients.
Nellie Bly became a household name as the world followed her enthralling career in “stunt” journalism that raised awareness of political corruption, poverty, and abuses of human rights. Leading an uncommonly full life, Nellie circled the globe in a record seventy-two days and brought home a pet monkey before marrying an aged millionaire and running his company after his death.
With its sensational (and true!) plot, Ten Days a Madwoman dares its readers to live as boldly as its remarkable heroine.
April 20, 2014
Spring events ...
Saturday, April 25, 2014, 10:00 a.m.
Not Just for Teens: The Growing Popularity of the Young Adult Novel
Harry Potter. The Hunger Games. According to a recent study, 55% of “Young Adult” books, which are typically designated for kids aged 12 to 17, are bought by adults aged 18 or older, with the largest readership among people aged 30 to 44. Join authors M. T. Anderson and Deborah Noyes as they talk with Candlewick Press Senior Editor Hilary B. Van Dusen about why the books appeal to such a wide audience, what types of themes, characters and settings typify a “YA novel,” how the authors develop ideas for their own YA books, and more.
Presenters: M.T. Anderson, Deborah Noyes
Moderator: Hilary B. Van Dusen
Local History/Local Novelists 2013-14 Reading and Lecture Series
Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
Forbes Library, 20 West Street, Northampton, Massachusetts
Reading with Jacqueline Sheehan and Hilary Sloin
November 1, 2013
Upcoming events
Saturday, November 23, 2013
3:00-4:00 p.m.
NCTE Annual Conference in Boston
author signing
Candlewick booth #703
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
ALAN workshop panel at NCTE Annual
"Celebrating Horror and the Supernatural"
Zoraida Cordova, Savage Blue (Sourcebooks)
Deb Noyes, Plague in the Mirror (Candlewick)
Kendare Blake, Antigoddess (Tor)
Colleen Gleason The Clockwork Scarab: A Stoker & Holmes Novel (Chronicle)
Friday, December 13, 2013
7:00 p.m.
YA panel with Jo Knowles, author of See You at Harry's and Living with Jackie Chan, N. Griffin, and Julie Berry
The Village Commons
9 College Street,
South Hadley, MA, 01075
Upcoming Events
Saturday, November 23, 2013
3:00-4:00 p.m.
NCTE Annual Conference in Boston
author signing
Candlewick booth #703
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
ALAN workshop panel at NCTE Annual
"Celebrating Horror and the Supernatural"
Zoraida Cordova, Savage Blue (Sourcebooks)
Deb Noyes, Plague in the Mirror (Candlewick)
Kendare Blake, Antigoddess (Tor)
Colleen Gleason The Clockwork Scarab: A Stoker & Holmes Novel (Chronicle)
Friday, December 13, 2013
7:00 p.m.
YA panel with Jo Knowles, author of See You at Harry's and Living with Jackie Chan
The Village Commons
9 College Street,
South Hadley, MA, 01075
Tuesday, May 7, 2014, time tba
Forbes Library
Local History/Local Novelists 2013-14 Reading and Lecture Series
20 West Street
Northampton, Massachusetts 01060
"Celebration of Local Novelists"
Deborah Noyes, Captivity
Jacqueline Sheehan, Picture This
Hilary Sloin, Art on Fire
June 17, 2013
June 12, 2013
Other Times, Other Worlds in YA Lit
Thursday, June 13
2:00 p.m. EST on Candlewick's Google+ Page
Join young adult authors +Cynthia Leitich Smith (FERAL NIGHTS), +P. J. Hoover (SOLSTICE), +Janet Fox (SIRENS), +Joy Preble (THE SWEET DEAD LIFE), and Candlewick Press editor and fellow YA author +Deb Noyes (PLAGUE IN THE MIRROR) for a Google+ Hangout On Air. The authors will take part in a dynamic discussion, exploring the challenges and joys of world-building, creating romantic elements, writing gender roles, and the parallel between fantasy and historical writing.
Follow Candlewick at Google+ and learn about how to join a Hangout.
April 29, 2013
Exotic Gothic 5 V2 available for preorder
My story "Juicing the Knife" appears in Exotic Gothic 5, V 2 (PS Publishing). If you're not familiar with Danel Olson's anthology series of original gothic, horror, thriller, and fantasy tales from around the world -- "an experiment in watching Gothic stories grow outside their native soil" -- it's a treasure trove.
