Date: October 16, 2008
Author: Tessa Elwood
Tags: adult, fiction, middle grade, non-fiction, young adult
Author: Tessa Elwood
Tags: adult, fiction, middle grade, non-fiction, young 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.
Manivong, Laura
Laura Manivong is the author of ESCAPING THE TIGER (HarperCollinsChidren’s Books), a middle grade novel about a Lao boy trying to survive in a Thai refugee camp. Her other children’s publishing credits include ONE SMART FISH (Scholastic / Children’s Press, 2006); Skipping Stones Magazine (2001); and Highlights Magazine (TBA).
Laura has also worked as a television writer/producer in creative services since 1992, earning various industry accolades including an Emmy for individual achievement in writing.
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Elwood, Tessa
Tessa Elwood is a photographer/webdesigner who reads Garth Nix, listens to everything from Iris to audiobooks, and writes YA space opera. Represented by Ginger Clark of Curtis Brown.
Cook, Colleen Ryckert
Colleen Ryckert Cook is a freelance writer and editor and current regional advisor for Kansas Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. The Rosen Group has published three books by Colleen: Kentucky Past and Present (August 2010), Teen FAQ: Cancer Decisions for You and Your Family and Teen FAQ: Social Networking (both January 2011). Two more titles, America’s Supernatural Secrets: Werewolves in America and Call of Duty: Your Career in the Marines, will come out in 2012.
Colleen has completed one upper middle grade supernatural thriller about a boy trying to resist the lure of a werewolf curse. She also is revising a women’s fiction manuscript. Among her colleagues she most likely wins the prize for shortest piece ever published: Her six-word memoir appears on page 68 in Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs From Writers Famous and Obscure (Harper Perennial, 2008).
Cindrich, Lisa
Lisa Cindrich is the author of the upper middle-grade historical novel IN THE SHADOW OF THE PALI: A STORY OF THE HAWAIIAN LEPER COLONY (Putnam, 2002) and has also published poetry and fiction for adults in The Nation, The Florida Review, and other journals. After many years working as a reference librarian, she’s now at home with a toddler and writing whenever she can!
Current projects include an upper middle-grade supernatural novel, a picture book about mutts and another picture book about a young witch’s Christmas adventure. She has also cowritten and is marketing an adult novel of suspense set in a dystopian future United States.
Cauthen, Lisha
YA writer of novels for boys that girls like to read too. I edit the funnyfied and informational Sunflower Scoop, the weekly newsletter of the Kansas SCBWI and serve as a member of the Advisory Committee. I have spoken at workshops and published an article with the Institute of Children’s Literature online. In addition to being a Wednesday Morning Critique Group Bon Vivant, I lead a Kansas SCBWI-sponsored, but not limited to SCBWI-members, monthly YA-only critique group. I blog, I facebook, I tweet. I make a nuisance of myself.
Bunce, Stephanie
Elizabeth writes historical fantasy for young adults. Her first novel, A Curse Dark as Gold (2008), won the William C. Morris Award for a Young Adult Debut, was named a Kansas Notable Book, made Oprah’s Book Club list, and was honored by the Smithsonian. She is also the author of StarCrossed (2010) and its sequel, Liar’s Moon (forthcoming from Scholastic). Elizabeth is an accomplished needlewoman with an interest in embroidery and historical costuming, and she lives in suburban KC with her attorney and their dogs.
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