Get to know Betsy… Betsy Franco is an award-winning author with over eighty books, including a young adult novel, picture books, and poetry collections, such as A Curious Collection of Cats, which received the Lee Bennett Hopkins Honor Award. She also writes screenplays, sketch comedies, and funnyordie videos. The four …
Get to know Kate… Kate Messner is the author of E.B. White Read Aloud Award winner THE BRILLIANT FALL OF GIANNA Z. and SUGAR AND ICE (Walker/Bloomsbury), the new MARTY MCGUIRE chapter book series illustrated by Brian Floca (Scholastic), and SEA MONSTER’S FIRST DAY, a new first-day-of-school picture book illustrated …
Get to know Deborah… Deborah Raney’s first novel, A Vow to Cherish, inspired the World Wide Pictures film of the same title and launched her writing career after 20 happy years as a stay-at-home mom. Deb’s 20th novel releases June 14 from Howard. She and her husband, Ken Raney, enjoy the …
Get to know Joan… Joan Frank is the author of four books of fiction, with a fifth, a new novel called Make It Stay, coming out in early 2012. Joan’s recent story collection, In Envy Country, won the 2010 Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, and was named a Finalist for …