Welcome!

What's new? Well, so far this year ...

On January 10th, in San Diego, I was privileged to hear the announcement that Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing was selected as the receipient of this year's YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults.

The Cooperative Center for Children's Books at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has included Janis Joplin in its CCBC Choices 2010 in the Biography and Autobiography category.

Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing has also been nominated for the Amelia Bloomer project, ALA's list featuring "well-written and illustrated books with strong feminist messages published in the past 18 months that are recommended for young people from birth through eighteen years of age. It is a list of quality fiction and  nonfiction titles that affirm positive roles for girls and women."

Upcoming Events

November 19, 4:30 pm
NCTE, panel on Social Justice and Children's Literature

October 19, 2011
Transylvania Co Library Teen Read Week, Brevard, NC

October 21, 2011
Chippewa Valley Book Festival, Eau Claire, WI

March 24, 2012
LitWorks, Norridge, IL

If you're in the Midwest, watch my blog for book signings.

Project in Progress

Ann's hard at work on Bella's Spirit Guide, her novel of spirits, ghosts, and believing in the magic of everyday life as well as a new novel with the working title Chicks on Board.

This year will be the first time Ann and her daughter Amanda will work together on a project. They're co-editing a collection of birth and adoption stories aimed at birth parents for a small literary press, Catalyst Book Press.