Get to know Angela… Angela Burchett is an international award-winning screenwriter and also a film producer. She has written, co-written or adapted over 10 films. Her workshops for authors range from high school level to adult. Recently taking off her film hat, she is shopping one novel and has begun …
Get to know Emma… Emma Walton Hamilton is a best-selling children’s author, editor, arts educator and arts and literacy advocate. She has co-authored over twenty children’s books with her mother, Julie Andrews, six of which have been on the New York Times best-seller list, including the The Very Fairy Princess and The Very Fairy Princess …
Get to know Anita… Bestselling and award-winning author, Anita Higman, has twenty-six books published (several coauthored) for adults and children, and she has five books coming out in the next two years. She has been honored in the past as a Barnes & Noble “Author of the Month” for Houston, and …
Get to know Bethany… Bethany Wiggins has always been an avid reader, but not an avid student. Seriously! She failed ninth grade English because she read novels instead of doing her homework. In high school, she sat alone at lunch and read massive hardback fantasy novels (Tad Williams and Robert Jordan anyone?). It …
Get to know Ginae… Ginae Lee Scott is married with three children and has brought color and humorous stories to her illustrated books for children. Her chapter book, Adventures with Samantha Fellows will keep the young reader reading. Eight chapters of continuous story, with every chapter a new adventure. Mulberry Lane, …
Get to know Bonnie… My first novel, LETTERS IN THE ATTIC, was published by Academy Chicago Publishers when I was sixty and won a Lambda Literary Award. My new young adult novel, KAT’S PROMISE, has just been released by Harcourt. I’ve always been fascinated by coming-of-age stories, and like Kat, “I like …
Get to know Allan… When growing up in Michigan, Allan Woodrow always wanted to be an author. But his teachers told him to write about what he knew, and he discovered he didn’t know very much. It turns out he didn’t know very much for quite a long time. Allan …
Get to know Susan… Susan Patron worked for 35 years as a youth services librarian for the Los Angeles Public Library before retiring in 2007, the same year she was awarded the Newbery medal for The Higher Power of Lucky (Atheneum). She has written a trilogy of picture books (the “Billy Que” …
Get to know Diana… Diana Greenwood was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as a Canadian born abroad and held dual citizenship until the age of 21. She spent her young years in Winnipeg, Manitoba and has fond memories of snow forts, snowball fights with neighborhood kids, and ski races on the …