April book releases 📖 plus new book deals and cover reveals
Here's to our latest spring fledglings! Congrats to Soaring '20s Hope Lim and Valerie Bolling on their April releases. These books would make perfect presents for Mother's Day and Father's Day. Learn more (and buy the books) in the Soaring '20s Bookshop or wherever books are sold.
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Welcome back to our series, 20 QUESTIONS!,
where we answer questions about writing, reading, and author life.
This month’s question:
“How did you come up with the idea for your most recent book?”
Carrie Finison
“For my upcoming book, LULU & ZOEY: A SISTER STORY, I remember vividly the moment I came up with the idea. I was driving my son home from preschool and his sister was baby-singing—loudly—in her infant seat. He complained bitterly that she was “always too loud,” and I responded with some parental wisdom about how no one is ever “always” anything. Sometimes she was too loud. Sometimes she was quiet. Sometimes she liked playing with him. Sometimes she wanted to play on her own. By the time we got home the structure of a new sibling story had taken shape.”
—Carrie Finison, author of LULU & ZOEY: A Sister Story, illus. Brittany Jackson (Running Press Kids, June 2022)
Click here to read on.
New Cover Reveals
New Book Deals
Join us for these events
Apr 25-28- Rajani LaRocca will appear at the Texas Library Association Conference. Register here.
Apr 27 @ 8 pm Eastern /5 pm Pacific (virtual)-TOGETHER WE RIDE book launch with Valerie Bolling at Multicultural Bookstore and Gifts in Richmond, CA. Register here
Apr 28 @ 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific - Margaret Chiu Greanias will be the special guest for the 12x12 Book Chat. (online)
Apr 29 @ 11 a.m. Eastern (in person) - TOGETHER WE RIDE book launch with Valerie Bolling at Barrett Bookstore in Darien, CT.
Apr 30 - Vicky Fang, Darshana Khiani, and Margaret Chiu Greanias will participate in Linden Tree Books' Independent Bookstore Day program. (Los Altos, CA)
May 1 @ 11 a.m. Eastern -MOCAKIDS Meet & Greet with Margaret Chiu Greanias and Tracy Subisak for AMAH FARAWAY. (online)
May 14 @ 2 pm Eastern (in person): TOGETHER WE RIDE book launch with Valerie Bolling at New Canaan Library at Lapham Community Center in New Canaan, CT. Register here.
May 28 @ 10-11:30 a.m. Eastern (online) - Anna Crowley Redding teaches "So, You Want to Write a Children's Book" via Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. Learn more here.
Jun-July - Angela Burke Kunkel will participate in a number of library storytimes. Check out her website for details.
Jun 9-12 - Writing Science and Nature for Kids and Teens at Highlights with special guest Vicky Fang. Learn more here. (Honesdale, PA)
July 15-19 Summer Camp in Nonfiction: at Highlights with special guest M. O. Yuksel. (Honesdale, PA)