In the wake of getting a little sidetracked during the holidays, my New Year’s resolution for this blog is to post Wisconsin writers’ info when I learn about it, rather than wait until I have more time (never happens) or until I have more than one item (why?). So here are a few items.
First from members of the Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators Wisconsin chapter comes their “first of the month (and in this case, first of the year) good news” which gets posted on the WISCBWI listserv, tada, the first of each month.
Ann Bausum (whose Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement I am just now reading) is a Cybils Children and Young Adults Bloggers Literary Awards finalist in the nonfiction teens & tweens category for Unraveling Freedom: The Battle for Democracy on the Home Front During World War I. Ann, an American history author for young people, has seven other books in this genre to her credit.
Janet Halfmann‘s third book from Sylvan Dell Publishing, Home in the Cave, will be out next month and is to be reviewed in the spring issue of ForeWord magazine. Janet’s two other Sylban Dell books, Fur and Feathers and Little Skink’s Tail are among the more than 30 books Janet has published.
Michael Kress-Russick is set to illustrate a historical fiction piece due to be published in the May issue of Cricket magazine.
In the adult ranks, New York Times bestselling author Patrick Rothfuss, whose The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear are the first two books in a trilogy, is one of several authors to be featured at the April 11-18 Fox Cities Book Festival.
Featured speakers at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s March 9-11 Spring Writers Festival include Wausau native Margot Peters, whose book Lorine Niedecker: a Poet’s Life (namesake of the CWW’s Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award) was published in September.