Date: June 20, 2010
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: Barb Stuber, book release, Crossing the Tracks, historical fiction, young adult
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: Barb Stuber, book release, Crossing the Tracks, historical fiction, young adult
Homeward-Bound with CROSSING THE TRACKS
On June 17, Kansas City welcomed hobo Iris Baldwin with open arms. Debut novelist Barbara Stuber celebrated the release of her young adult novel Crossing The Tracks (Margaret K. McElderry, 2010). Many congratulations and best wishes for Barb and Iris!
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: March 7, 2010
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: book release, historical fiction, Laura Manivong, reading reptile, young adult
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: book release, historical fiction, Laura Manivong, reading reptile, young adult
SRO at Laura Manivong’s launch for Escaping the Tiger
The masses were out to celebrate with Laura Manivong and her young adult debut Escaping the Tiger. Reading Reptile managed to pack in about 250 family, friends and fans last night and sold every last one of Laura’s books. But don’t fret! You can call the store and order one! (816) 753-0441. In the meantime, enjoy these pictures of the night.
Date: March 15, 2009
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: A Curse Dark As Gold, Arthur A. Levine Books, awards, Elizabeth C. Bunce, honors, young adult
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: A Curse Dark As Gold, Arthur A. Levine Books, awards, Elizabeth C. Bunce, honors, young adult
Celebrate Elizabeth C. Bunce’s ALA debut author award
The Johnson County Library will host a reception for Elizabeth C. Bunce on Sunday, March 22 from 2 pm to 4 pm at the Lackman Neighborhood Library. She’ll be honored for receiving the first ever American Library Association’s William C. Morris Award for her debut young adult novel, Curse Dark as Gold (Arthur A. Levine Books, March 208). Come listen to Elizabeth talk about Curse, enjoy refreshments and buy a copy of her amazing book. (Read more…)
Date: January 26, 2009
Author: Laura Manivong
Tags: A Curse Dark As Gold, American Library Association, awards, Bunce, honors, young adult
Author: Laura Manivong
Tags: A Curse Dark As Gold, American Library Association, awards, Bunce, honors, young adult
Bunce Wins ALA’s YA Debut Award!
Elizabeth C. Bunce’s A CURSE DARK AS GOLD wins the American Library Association’s William C. Morris YA Debut Award. 2009 is the first year for this award, which honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature. The work cited will illuminate the teen experience and enrich the lives of its readers through its excellence, demonstrated by: compelling, high quality writing and/or illustration; the integrity of the work as a whole; and its proven or potential appeal to a wide range of teen readers.
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Berenson, Sheila
Sheila is an author/illustrator and member of SCBWI. Her work has been recognized with various awards, including the Kimberly Colen Memorial Grant. She has been published in several children’s magazines and educational journals and is currently marketing a young adult historical novel.
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
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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