I’ve been so very lucky to have lots of great news to share with folks these past few months, but the news this week is even better than usual: I’ve sold another picture book biography!
I’m delighted to announce that Eerdmans Books for Young Readers will be publishing The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch, the story of a man who in ten years went from teenage field slave to Reconstruction-era Congressman.
If you’ve seen Eerdmans’ recent Caldecott Honor-winning biography of poet William Carlos Williams, A River of Words, you’ll have a good idea of why I’m so excited to be working with them in telling Lynch’s exceptional story.
congrats! again!
-a.
Well, you totally p0wnd 2009, and now here you come out of the gates in 2010. Fantastic news.
[…] one has already had a long history. I completed my first draft in early 2007, sold it to Eerdmans two years ago this month, and made a research trip to Mississippi and Louisiana this past spring, […]