Hugs and Hurrahs

Welcome to this quarter's edition of Hugs and Hurrahs! This is my first time writing the series, and I'm delighted to celebrate all of the following authors!  Thank you to Sarah Prusoff LoCascio and Kristin Lenz for all your help getting me up and running. 

Heidi Woodward Sheffield’s  BRICK BY BRICK has been chosen for the Dolly Parton  Imagination Library. It will also be a Scholastic book and is being translated for the Korean market as well! 

 

 

           

ICE CREAM FACE (Nancy Paulsen Books, Penguin/Random House), is a picture book about

the anxiety and elation involved in waiting in line to get ice cream. Written and illustrated by Heidi Woodward Sheffield, it debuts 6/21/22, and is available through your local bookstore, Indiebound or Amazon.

Publisher’s Weekly called ICE CREAM FACE an "amiable meditation on the joys of a rich emotional life starring a funny, self-aware protagonist who wears their ice-cream-loving heart on their sleeve.”

Multiple congrats, Heidi!

 

On August 2 Lisa Wheeler will be welcoming the birth of Baby Shower. (Dial/Penguin Random House) This picture book, illustrated by Charlie Adler,  is a celebration of babies and the people who anticipate their arrival.

 

Congratulations, Lisa!

 

 

Kristin Lenz signed with agent Sera Rivers at Martin Literary Management, and this was a direct

result of the SCBWI-MI Critique Carousel last fall. Thanks to our chapter Leadership Team, Anita Pazner, and Dave Stricklen for coordinating that event!

The Michigan Reading Journal published Kristin's article, "Sweet Romance and a Ticking-Clock-Plot: Two Novels for Exploring Identity and Intersectionality".

 

Way to go, Kristin!

 

 

Jean Alicia Elster’s latest book HOW IT HAPPENS (Wayne State University Press 2021) won the  2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Bronze Medal for Young Adult Fiction. In addition, Jean was the featured author in a Black Her Stories podcast that focused on how her life experiences and philosophies have affected her body of published work. https://nourish.community/episode/with-jean-alicia-elster/

We’re so proud of you, Jean Alicia!

 

 

Congratulations, everyone! Our next Hugs and Hurrahs will be in the fall. Please send your good news in the meantime to aewhodgson@gmail.com. I hope you all have a refreshing and productive summer!