The latest about what’s going on in Heartland Writers for Kids and Teens – including who’s just joined, who’s writing what, and who just got published.
Check out Victoria Dixon’s story in the December issue of ‘Nature International Journal of Science’. Congratulations, Vicki! https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/564/issues/7735?fbclid=IwAR0nAm6V9IHNaMyEQkjhroRxOvnZCltx10rsRe8VnfVB_2GoTuCSM28IPmk
Heartlander Jenn Bailey has joined Angelella Editorial! Jenn has been a professional editor and writer for the last 10 years and has her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and her B.S. in Film/Screenwriting from Boston University. Jenn’s first picture book, A Friend for Henry, will debut in February 2019. She received the Candlewick Picture Book award for Plink! in 2016 and the Flying Pig Humor Award for her novel, Once, in…
A first look at Heartlander Jenn Bailey’s picture book A FRIEND FOR HENRY coming in February 2019. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1452167915/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_U_8cTSBb0Y631BG
Traci McClellan-Sorell is an SCBWI 2018 Book Launch Award Winner! Traci is the author of We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga (Charlesbridge). Her picture book explores contemporary Cherokee culture, and the spirit of gratitude the community experiences during each of the four seasons. https://www.scbwi.org/2018-book-launch-award-winners/
Park University is excited to launch the Nonfiction Writers Intensive (NWI) workshop series in collaboration with The Little Fig. NWI’s goal is to build a collection of stories that showcase subjects of cultural, linguistic, ethnic, and gender diversity. Open to authors worldwide, whether they are published or not, this 16-week-long intensive enables each author to be successful in creating a nonfiction picture book—from concept to submission-ready completion. The January 2019 NWI focuses on creating picture book biographies that depict noteworthy…
Elise Howard of Algonquin Young Readers has acquired a middle grade mystery series by Elizabeth C. Bunce, beginning with PREMEDITATED MYRTLE, in a four-book pre-empt. Pitched as Miss Fisher or Flavia de Luce for tweens, the series follows an irrepressible 12-year-old protagonist and her adventures in Victorian criminology, and will launch in Spring 2020. Bunce was the inaugural winner of the William C. Morris YA Debut Award for A CURSE DARK AS GOLD. This is her first foray into middle…
Star Bright Books has purchased world rights to four of Heartlander S. J. Bushue’s bilingual picture book titles. Animal ABC bilingüe bilingual, a unique introduction to the ABCs, features animals whose names share a common beginning letter, regardless of language. Illustrated with the mosaic originality of Juan de Lascurain, this picture book’s planned release date is June, 2018. DINOSAURS COUNT encourages preschoolers to wiggle their toes and flap their arms along with some dinosaur pals. This multilingual picture book has been…
Congratulations to Heartlanders Sue Lowell Gallion and Ann Ingalls! 😊 Barb McNally at Sleeping Bear has bought world rights to Ann Ingalls and Sue Lowell Gallion’s Tip and Tucker early reader series, the story of two very different hamster friends: one bold and adventurous, the other timid and cautious. But everything changes as the two friends venture out into the larger world at Berrybrook School. Andre Ceolin will illustrate. Book one is planned for March 2019, and book two…
Alastair Heim’s fourth picture book HELLO DOOR made its debut on January 2, 2018. HELLO DOOR is a rhyming book illustrated by Alisa Coburn, who also illustrated Alastair’s LOVE YOU, TOO and is a retelling of Goldilocks and The Three Bears – featuring a sly, sneaky Mr. Fox who meet and greets everything he sees (and steals) with a polite “Hello!” Take a peek at HELLO DOOR here on Alastair’s website: http://www.alastairheim.com/books/#/hello-door/
Ariel Richardson at Chronicle has bought world rights to Heartlander Jenn Bailey‘s A FRIEND FOR HENRY, illustrated by Mika Song. Making friends is daunting for Henry, a boy on the autism spectrum. His best efforts are often misunderstood, but after an art project mix-up, and a Circle Time setback, Henry finds a way to build a friendship. The book is planned for spring 2019; the author was represented by Rosemary Stimola, and the illustrator by Erica Rand Silverman, both of Stimola Literary…