Date: April 25, 2013
Author: Judy Hyde
Tags: board books, fiction, illustrator, middle grade, writer and illustrator
Author: Judy Hyde
Tags: board books, fiction, illustrator, middle grade, writer and illustrator
Barsotti, Kate
Kate Barsotti writes and illustrates middle grade fiction and books aimed at the younger set, such as board books and picture books. You can find out more at www.katebarsotti.com.
Carpenter, Kate
Kate Carpenter grew up in Spokane, Wash., graduated from the University of Missouri, and spent four years in Idaho before finding her way to Kansas City. She’s a former newspaper reporter, copy editor and screen-printer, and she is currently working on a middle-grade adventure novel.
Twitter: twitter.com/katieblair
Congratulations to Jenn Bailey!
Jenn Bailey is thrilled to confirm that she is now represented by Minju Chang and Kendra Marcus of Bookstop Literary. http://www.bookstopliterary.
Bookstop Literary is an editorial agency, and Jenn has enjoyed the process of working with Kendra and Minju, both of whom she met at a Kansas SCBWI conference.
The Biggest Lesson that Jenn would like to pass on is: “When agents say ‘We’d like to see more from you’–believe them! Don’t make them wait six months before you come back around to the project. You could be filled with Happy/Joy a whole lot sooner!”
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: May 2, 2010
Author: Tessa Elwood
Tags: Articles, middle grade, picture books, short stories, young adult
Author: Tessa Elwood
Tags: Articles, middle grade, picture books, short stories, young adult
Ford, Sue
Sue Ford has sold over 130 magazine pieces for children and adults. Sue writes for children under her maiden name, Susan Uhlig. She has been an active member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators for 18 years. She also is an instructor for the Institute of Children’s Literature. Sue’s website susanuhlig.com has writing resources and recommendations of children’s books.
She is currently marketing a tween novel.
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Date: January 1, 2009
Author: Laura Manivong
Tags: historical fiction, middle grade, nonfiction, young adult
Author: Laura Manivong
Tags: historical fiction, middle grade, nonfiction, young adult
McArthur, Debra
Debra McArthur grew up in Springfield, Missouri, where her high school experience included church activities, choir, drum and bugle corps, and the kind of drama and angst that make a person really glad to grow up. She earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and an M.F.A. in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University. She has written eight nonfiction books for young readers. A Voice for Kanzas is Debra’s first novel.
Pistorius, Nancy
Nancy Pistorius of Lawrence, Kansas, has published award-winning fiction, poetry, essays, and feature articles in more than seventy-five different literary and mass-market publications, including WOMAN’S DAY, COSMOPOLITAN, and CHICAGO TRIBUNE. She has an MA in English/Literature from the University of Illinois and also attended schools in England (London) and Florida. Her most recent honor was the 2009 Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award (Fiction). She is currently working on a Middle-Grade novel.
You can find her in various places on the Web, including:
http://www.examiner.com/x-2800-Kansas-City-Getaways-Examiner
http://nancypistorius.wordpress.com/
http://lyriclemon.livejournal.com/
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Nancy-Pistorius/119289758108843?ref=sgm
Tetzlaff, Jeana
Jeana Tetzlaff is an ICL graduate and loves to write middle grade fiction. She has one mg novel on submission to Walker Publishing. In the works are an adult thriller and another middle grade novel that is fantasy grounded in the real world. She has been published in Grit Magazine.
Stuber, Barb
Barb’s novel CROSSING THE TRACKS, is published by Margaret K. McElderry Books, a division of Simon and Schuster. Release date – July 6, 2010. She also has both fiction and non-fiction accepted for publication in CRICKET MAGAZINE. Barb is represented by Ginger Knowlton of Curtis Brown Ltd., a New York based literary agency representing writers since 1914.
When not writing, Barbara is an art museum docent at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. She lives in Kansas City with her family.
Books
Crossing the Tracks
At fifteen, Iris is a hobo of sorts – no home, no family, no plan. After her mother’s early death, Iris’s father focuses on big plans for his new shoe stores and his latest girlfriend, and has no time for his daughter. Unbeknownst to her, he hires Iris out as housekeeper and companion for a country doctor’s elderly mother. Suddenly Iris is alone, stuck in gritty rural Missouri, too far from her only friend Leroy and too close to a tenant farmer Cecil Deets, who menaces the neighbors, and Iris suspects, his own daughter.
Iris is buoyed by the warmth and understanding the doctor and his mother show her, but just as she starts to break out of her shell tragedy strikes. Iris must find the guts and cunning to take aim at the devil incarnate and discover if she is really as helpless, or hopeless, or homeless as she once believed.
Stories, poems, & articles
“Chirping Champions” and “A True Junzi” – CRICKET MAGAZINE. Publication dates TBA
Author Visits
Presentations:
I conduct interactive presentations and hands-on workshops for schools, libraries, art and writing classes.
Topics include:
building characters
discovering plot
creating settings
getting the facts
sculpting a book
seeking inspiration
Speaking experience: Over the past 20 years I have conducted interactive art museum tours and workshops for students of all ages and adults.
Availability: weekdays and weekends
Audience: K – adult
Stromberg, Ronica
Ronica Stromberg is the author of five children’s books: two published and three under contract. The Time-for-bed Angel, a picture book, came out in 2008, published by Lion-Hudson of England. The book follows the humorous adventures of a guardian angel watching over a rambunctious, bedtime-avoiding boy. Ronica reads the story in day cares, preschools, and early education classrooms during story time or before naps. Her mystery for 10- to 14-year-olds, The Glass Inheritance, came out in 2001, published by Royal Fireworks Press of New York. (Royal Fireworks has also contracted for three teen novels.) The mystery reinforces fifth-grade history curricula with a plot that involves the Great Depression, World War II, and Depression-era glassware. Ronica’s stories appear in 18 anthologies, such as Chicken Soup for the Teen Soul on Love and Friendship, and in numerous magazines and newspapers.
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