![]() ![]() I started as an elementary teacher (Grades 2, 4, and 5) and moved on to middle school (Grade 8 English). My 30-year educational career has been in Greenwich, Connecticut. in Elementary and Middle School Education My agent extraordinaire is James McGowan of BookEnds Literary Agency.Ĭolumbia University, Teachers College, M.A. A poem I wrote was published in Cricket Media’s Babybug Magazine. In addition to writing picture books, I have written a Monthly Memo for teachers that I published on Twitter, and I have been published in The National Writing Project’s Quarterly and NESCBWI News. In a June 2018 #PBPitch, Let’s Dance! was “liked" by Jes Negrón, an editor at Boyds Mills & Kane (now Astra Publishing), and less than two weeks later, I received the news that my book had been accepted for publication! In June of 2017, I started writing query letters to agents and editors and began to participate in Twitter pitches. ![]() ![]() I contacted people I believed could be helpful resources – and they were – and I wrote and wrote and wrote. Shortly after, I decided to pursue becoming a published author. So how did I become an author of children's books? Inspired by a visit from my nieces in December 2016, I wrote two stories in which each of them was the protagonist. ![]()
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