Member Spotlight

Sharon Blumberg, long time member of the CWCC, recently had another story published online for Handprints on My Heart. The eventual e-book of featured stories will eventually go into a series, similar to the Chicken Soup series. Sharon’s story is about an incident that occured many years ago when she was a young, beginning teacher. It is on the site, www.handprintsonmyheart.com Sharon’s story is entitled, “God’s Eyes-(This is No Yarn!)

Marge Gower has had two articles titled ‘St. Margaret and the Dragon’ and ‘The Parable of the Sower’ accepted by My Light an online Catholic children’s magazine for the July/August issue. The Fellowship of Christian Writer’s has also accepted Marge’s essay titled ‘God Plans My Future’ for their September newsletter.

CWCC member Nicole Weaver has an article called Information for Parents: Foreign Language Acquisition in the June issue of Guardian Angel Kids Ezine. Her article called The Greatest Gift You Can Give Your Child is scheduled for publication in the July 2011 issue of this publication.

The shortlists for the Alberta Book Awards have just been announced and Loonie and Olympic Torch, two of Simon Rose’s non-fiction titles with Weigl Educational Publishers, are on the shortlist for the Children and Young Adult Books category this year.

Marge Gower received an acceptance from Jeanette Littleton for her devotional titled “Renewed Spirits” to be published in the Gary Chapman/James Bell project. The anthology titled “Love is a Verb Devotional” will be published by Bethany House. It will be available during the late summer in 2011.

Irene S. Roth’s nonfiction article entitled Mr. Mom will be appearing in the Summer Issue of Stories for Children Magazine.

Marge Gower just received an acceptance letter for an article titled ‘Lenten Reflections ‘ that will be published in the April/May issue of My Light Magazine and a fiction piece titled “Melinda’s First Ash Wednesday” that will be published in 2012. She has also received an acceptance for a devotional titled “Let God Change His Creation, While You Change Yours” in the Fellowship of Christian Writer’s Newsletter.

Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club Instructor Renee Gray-Wilburn has recently been contracted to write two books for Capstone Press for their brand-new First Graphics brand. These science books, written for grades K-3, will present the topics of volcanoes and earthquakes in graphic novel format.

2011 has started off well for Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club member Grier Cooper, who is under contract with Vook.com to write How to Build a Ballerina Body. Her short story “The Peacekeeper” will appear in the February issue of Skipping Stones, and the story “Ho Ho Hamsters” will be published in the February issue of Literature 4 Kids. She is also a regularly featured dance columnist for BAY STAGES magazine in San Francisco.

Announcing three new books in the educational market for Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club Instructor, Nancy I. Sanders. Two books for teachers are with Scholastic Teaching Resources: Cut & Paste Mini-Books: Math and Cut & Paste Mini-Books: Science. She also has a new book with Libraries Unlimited, Hello Hi-Lo: Readers Theatre Math. To view Nancy’s new releases as well as her other books, please visit Nancy’s Bookzone at http://nancysbookzone.wordpress.com/4-teachers.

Donna McDine is pleased to announce that her book, The Golden Pathway, a work of historical fiction for children, placed in the Top Ten of the Preditors & Editors Readers Poll 2010.

Suzanne Lieurance has two articles in the Writers Guide to 2011, published by the Writer’s Institute, Inc.