Date: October 11, 2012
Author: Judy Hyde
Author: Judy Hyde
Congratulations x 2 to Wyatt Townley!
Former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser has selected a poem from Wyatt Townley’s new book, THE AFTERLIVES OF TREES, for his syndicated column, American Life in Poetry. Kooser’s column appears in hundreds of newspapers nationwide and enjoys a readership of 3,000,000. See the link here: http://www.
And the good news continues: THE AFTERLIVES OF TREES won the Nelson Poetry Book Award!
Date: August 3, 2012
Author: Judy Hyde
Author: Judy Hyde
Review for Wyatt Townley’s THE AFTERLIVES OF TREES
A review of Wyatt Townley’s THE AFTERLIVES OF TREES ran recently in The Emporia Gazette. Read the review here: http://www.flyoverpeople.net/
Date: July 17, 2012
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: awards, historical fiction, middle grade, pickett, poetry, townley
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: awards, historical fiction, middle grade, pickett, poetry, townley
Heartlanders nominated for 2012 Thorpe Menn Award
Congratulations to Anola Pickett and Wyatt Townley! These Heartlanders are finalists for the Thorpe Menn Award for Literary Excellence, sponsored by the Kansas City Branch of the American Association of University Women. The award recognizes excellence in writing by local authors.
Pickett’s middle grade historical fiction Wasatch Summer was published by by Bonneville Books, April 2011. Townley’s The Afterlives of Trees is a collection of poems published by Woodley Press in 2011.
Date: March 13, 2012
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Heartlanders visit local elementary school
Authors Anola Pickett and Charlotte Adelsperger were classroom presenters at Mill Creek Elementary School in Shawnee Mission School District on February 17, 2012. Left: Charlotte visits with fourth graders after her presentation. Right: Anola and Charlotte at the school’s Creative Communication Workshop event, as Anola displays her children’s novel, Wasatch Summer.
New release for Charlotte Adelsperger
Charlotte Adelsperger’s picture book, Amazing Miracles of Jesus, illustrated by Nancy Munger, was released in January, 2012. It is a new addition to Standard Publishing’s Happy Day book series for children ages 3-7. The series has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide. Congratulations, Charlotte!
Date: November 1, 2011
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Release Day for Elizabeth C. Bunce and LIAR’S MOON!
Welcome back Digger!
Check out the Liar’s Moon trailer here!
Date: October 31, 2011
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Congratulations to Barbara Stuber!
CROSSING THE TRACKS won the 2011 Writer’s League of Texas Award for Best Book for Young People! Find out more here: http://www.writersleague.org/contests/book-awards.htm
Date: April 19, 2011
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Picture book sale for Bridget Heos!
It’s a Boy! With a mustache! Bridget Brewster Heos announces the sale of her first fictional picture book, MUSTACHE BABY, to Daniel Nayeri at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt! Congratulations, Bridget! Find out more about her at http://greetingsfromwaldo.blogspot.com/
Date: April 17, 2011
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Springtime celebration for Wasatch Summer
Anola Pickett is pleased to announce the Kansas City launch of her historical middle grade novel Wasatch Summer will be Friday, May 20 at our wonderful independent bookstore The Reading Reptile. She also will answer questions about “Writing Believable Historical Characters” during ICL’s Writer’s Retreat next week, April 19-21. Drop in and ask her a question at institutechildrenslit.net.
Date: March 15, 2011
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
SCBWI Open House April 9
Join SCBWI’s Regional Advisor and Advisory Committee at Jayhawk Central’s coffee shop on the KU Edward’s Campus for a meet and greet open house. Ask all your questions about children’s writing, publishing, and Twitter but have been too afraid to ask…until now. Plus donuts and coffee! FREE! And because it’s an Open House, you can come anytime you want between 1 pm and 4 pm.
Register here so we know how high to stack the donuts. Thanks!
