Children's & Young Adult Authors of the Granite State
Happy Paperback Release Day to Amy Makechnie! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-McNifficents/Amy-Makechnie/9781665918985Have you picked this lovely middle grade up, yet? It features a miniature schnauzer named Lord Tennyson who takes on the role of nannying the McNiff children. Hand to all your middle grade pet lovers!
Publisher’s Weekly called it a “lively role-reversing family story.”
As the weather changes from hot to cool and we begin to celebrate all things fall, why not relax with a nice cup of hot apple cider and a delightfully quirky/spooky middle grade novel? Nell and the Netherbeast by Adi Rule is now available wherever books are sold and it is the best read for the Halloween season!
Three cheers for Deborah Bruss and David Elliott! On Saturday, September 9th, they will receive the Elizabeth Yates Award given by the Concord Public Library Foundation. This award, given annually, honors a recipient who inspires young people to read. Congratulations Deb and David!
Are you looking for some family and bookish fun for the fall? Head to Portland, Maine at the end of September for a family concert (by OD Bonny) and a book giveaway (by Terry Farish) at Mayo Street Arts. You don’t want to miss meeting these lovely people and creative collaborators in-person.
Terry Farish (The Good Braider) and Bhutanese-Nepali debut writer Lochan Sharma have sold their new YA novel, Tales of Love and Flying Horses, to Groundwood Books. Their collaboration is a dual-point-of-view story. Publication is slated for Spring 2024. Congratulations!
Bookend your day with virtual launch events with New Hampshire authors on March 16th! At 11am Lita Judge will launch The Wisdom of Trees with Politics and Prose, and at 7pm David Elliott will launch The Seventh Raven with Gibson’s Bookstore.
We were thrilled to spot our own Cassie Gustafson in last month’s PW. Look for this intriguing new voice in YA, coming 2021!
We’re always elated when we spot a familiar face in PW’s Childrens Bookshelf Rights Report. Congrats to David Elliott on the sale of this wonderful new picture book manuscript, Red Big. Look for it in 2022!
The American Library in Paris Book Award celebrates books written and published in English about France or the French. We’re so elated to see Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David Elliott on the short list. Read this lovely write up in the Concord Monitor to hear more about what David was up to when he got the call and keep an eye out in November for coverage of the final announcements!
Join us in welcoming Erin Bowman’s latest! Immunity, the riveting sequel to Contagion, continues the story of survivors of a brutal planetary outbreak. Have they seen the worst or is the worst yet to come?
Sci-Fi superstar Amie Kaufman called it “gripping, thrilling and terrifying in equal measures.” Who doesn’t want that?
Keep a close eye on Erin’s event page to catch her in person!
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