Date: August 11, 2010
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: Bailey, Heos, non-fiction, Rosen, Ryckert Cook
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: Bailey, Heos, non-fiction, Rosen, Ryckert Cook
Release day for Bailey, Heos and Ryckert Cook
Today Rosen Publishing released three more titles from Heartlander writers: Kansas Past and Present by Diane Bailey, Colorado Past and Present by Bridget Heos, and Kentucky Past and Present by Colleen Ryckert Cook.
This is Diane’s ninth book with Rosen. Her next two titles will be out January 2011. Bridget has nine books with Rosen as well. This is Colleen’s first book with Rosen. The company will release two more titles by her in January 2011.
Date: February 23, 2010
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: author visits, Charlotte Adelsperger, Colleen Ryckert Cook, non-fiction, workshops, writing books
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: author visits, Charlotte Adelsperger, Colleen Ryckert Cook, non-fiction, workshops, writing books
Adelsperger and Ryckert Cook visit Mill Creek Elementary
On February 19, Charlotte Adelsperger and Colleen Ryckert Cook talked about life as a writer at Mill Creek Elementary’s Author Illustrator Workshop. Charlotte talked with fourth graders about researching and writing about the Andrea Doria shipwreck. Colleen taught fifth graders different strategies for writing fiction and nonfiction. They joined local authors Connie Richards, Mary Anne Demeritt and Darlene Isaacson; Chris Koppenhaver of the Johnson County Library; artist Julanne Patric; Kansas City Star Food Editor Jill Silva; photographer Bill Spreadbury; computer animator Jesse Miguel; marketing consultant John Martellaro; and trial lawyer Steve Mirakian.
Date: November 3, 2009
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: book release, Diane Bailey, non-fiction, Rosen
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: book release, Diane Bailey, non-fiction, Rosen
Six more titles for Diane Bailey
In August, Rosen Publishing released two new books written by Diane Bailey: High School Musicals: Scenery and Set Design and High School Musicals: Stage Management and Production.
In January 2010, Diane will have three more releases through Rosen: Tennessee: Past and Present; Venus and Serena Williams; and Great Moments at the World Cup. Her book Kansas: Past and Present will be out in August 2010. Congratulations, Diane!
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.
Wade McCormick, Lisa
Lisa Wade McCormick is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years experience as a newspaper reporter and investigative television producer. She’s worked for The Independence Examiner, The Greeley Tribune, and KCTV. Her stories have won numerous awards, including two Emmy’s and the I.R.E. Medal for outstanding investigative reporting. (Read more…)
True, Jane
Jane True has several non-fiction pieces published in journals or anthologies, including Exceptional Parent magazine and Advance Radiology Journal. She is the editor of the Mirror, a quarterly international publication supporting families affected by duplications of the 15th chromosome. She is currently working on her first major fiction manuscript, a YA novel titled My Skiing Sister.
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
Schuler, Judy
Judy Schuler’s children’s book, Foxes for Kids, is now out of print, but still available on Amazon. She has published short stories and articles in magazines such as Scholastic Scope, Boys’ Quest, Grit, and Writers’ Journal. She currently does free-lance editing online. She currently does freelance editing from her website, www.editsonline.com.
Hyde, Judy
Judy Hyde has published three books with Scholastic: ROOKIE READER: RAINY DAY MUSIC and ROOKIE READ ABOUT GEOGRAPHIES: LOUSIANA and INDIANA. She is the current moderator of the Wednesday critique group and has been attending since 1985.
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