Sue Gallion to be in Highlights!

Congratulations to Sue Gallion! Highlights will publish her first rebus in an upcoming issue!

McCormick’s four new books released!

Lisa Wade McCormick announces the release of four new non-fiction books with Capstone Press, all part of their Mysteries of Science series. And Lisa’s first story about The National Disaster Search Dog Foundation appears in the The Bark, now on newsstands. If you can’t find the magazine at your local book store, here’s a link:

http://thebark.com/content/rescue-doubled

Bridget Heos scores 3-book deal!

 Congratulations are in order for Bridget Heos! Not only has Bridget secured representation with Kelly Sonnack at Andrea Brown Literary Agency, but Kelly has sold Bridget’s insect larvae parenting book to Carol Hinz at Millbrook Press, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, in a three book deal. The following two books will have a similar theme but incorporating different animals. The first book is due out in the Spring of 2011.

Schulte publishes two more books!

Congratulations to Mary Schulte on her latest releases! Mary works as a photo editor and children’s book reviewer at The Kansas City Star and has nonfiction and fiction books published through Children’s Press/Scholastic, KidHaven Press, and Mason Crest.

KSCBWI Conference Sept 11-12

Kansas SCBWI has planned a rip-roarin’ conference for children’s writers and illustrators. Yes, we got authors! Bruce Coville, Cheryl Harness, Jennifer Brown, Dian Curtis Regan, LD Harkrader. We got illustrator Tom Nelson, agent  Ted Malawar of Firebrand Literary, editor Eve Adler of Henry Holt and Company. We got manuscript critques and portfolio reivews and sessions on characters, voice, humor, structure and more!

Get the lowdown here. Hope to see you there!

Elizabeth Bunce Big Hit at ALA

My niece Kate (YA director for Johnson County Libraries) reports that everyone at the ALA convention in Chicago was enthralled with Elizabeth C. Bunce and her speech accepting the Morris Award for A CURSE DARK AS GOLD. Elizabeth, aka Stephanie, treated the Wednesday critique group to a preview of her speech last month and we predicted she’d be a show stopper!

Kansas SCBWI Writers at Work 2009 Event

WHAT? I’M AN EDITOR?

Saturday, July 25th

9:30 to 3:30

Mardel, Overland Park, KS

Speaker: Lorri Cardwell-Casey

Check it out at http://kansasscbwi.shuttlepod.org on the events page.

Query that caught my agent’s eye

I’ve blogged about how I targeted agents by keeping a detailed reading list and focusing on agents who repped novels that I could relate to my own work (targeting agents). Here is my actual query letter with my commentary in bold:
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CRICKET to publish Adelsperger’s article

Charlotte Adelsperger’s article about the Andrea Doria shipwreck will appear in CRICKET magazine. Look for the article this fall in the October 09 issue. Way to go, Charlotte!

McCormick Takes Top Prize

Congratulations to Lisa McCormick who won first place honors in the 2009 Missouri Writer’s Guild Contest for Best Juvenile Short Work. Her story, “The Gift of Giving,” appeared in Dogs for Kids magazine and featured kids who asked their families and friends to make donations to animal organizations instead of giving them presents for the special events in their lives. Great work, Lisa!