🥳🥳Tuna is a 2024 Award Nominee🥳🥳
Honoured to be alongside Kate & Dee as the 2024 nominees for the R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature.
Millie’s Heading into Battle! 🥳
Delighted to hear Millie & the Great Drought will be part of the Fort Worth ISD Battle of the Bands! Wishing all the luck to the students—have fun reading and battling (although, spending your day reading amazing stories feels like a win, all around!).
This Made My Day!! 🥳
Thank you so much to the Bookmark Bunch for including the Spooky Sleuths series in their reading club!
Join me at the YouthWrite Spring Camp! 🥳
Join me for a two days of writing fun! (for full information, head to Youthwrite)
ONCE UPON A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT…
Are the whispers of a character keeping you up at night? Do you fictional friends wake you early in the morning with scenes and story ideas? DON’T THEY KNOW YOU NEEED TO SLEEP?! Join Natasha and learn the ins and out for creating a story full of cracking characters, dashing dialogue, punchy plots, and wonderful world-building that will keep your readers up until the early hours (and maybe let you get some Zzzzzs!).
Thank you PRHYR!
Looking forward to the Story Avenue Conference this week!
Registration open for YouthWrite’s Spring Camps!
For more information and to register, please visit this link.
Coming Spring 2024 – LARK GOES THE DISTANCE
Kate’s watch has been stolen!
L
ark and Connor Ba are off to the park to set up for the Run in the Sun fundraiser. But trouble is brewing: Their friend Kate’s heirloom watch has been stolen! The thief left a note of warning—she must drop out of the race, or she’ll never see the watch again. Everyone knows how important this race is to Kate, especially her little sister Nola, who has seen how much she’s trained for it.
Lark, Connor and their friends interview people around the course and try to find the culprit. There are several people with motives, including Timothy, who’s super competitive, and even Kate herself, whose time in the race hasn’t been as good as she’d hoped. They have only until 3:00 pm to find the culprit or Kate might lose her watch forever.
Includes bonus material, as Lark shares the meanings behind her favorite words and idioms from the story. Lark Goes the Distance is the seventh title in the Lark Ba Detective series, following Lark Steals the Show, Lark Has the Shivers, Lark and the Dessert Disaster, Lark Takes a Bow, Lark and the Diamond Caper and Lark Holds the Key.
The Struggle is Real 😅
(Full video) WGA: Controversy at Noon – The Ethics of Writing on Social Issues
Controversy at Noon: The Ethics of Writing on Social Issues
The first Controversy at Noon, hosted by the Writers Guild of Alberta runs on Wednesday January 24th, 2024, 12 – 1 PM MST, (Online, Free).
The ethics of writing on social issues can be a complicated topic of conversation for writers: What does it mean, really? Are certain issues off-limits for particular writers? What are the types of issues that fall under this very broad theme? How can we strive to write characters and narratives that feel meaningful, informed, and appropriate to the story we’re trying to tell? Join our group of panellists as they discuss the ethics of writing on social issues during our first Controversy @ Noon panel in 2024.
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