霍林斯大学(Hollins University)的儿童文学、儿童图书写作和插画研究生课程将表彰11位在2023年出版新书的校友和教师作家。
“我们有很多值得庆祝的事情,”客座副教授希拉里·霍姆齐(Hillary Homzie)说。她主持了一场虚拟新书发布会,向两位作者表示感谢。 他们的作品范围很广,从简单易懂的读物和青少年读物,到一本关于深受喜爱的儿童经典小说的散文集,以及一本以越南战争期间的大后方为背景的小说。
7位作者参加了新书发布会:

坎迪斯·兰森,07年文学硕士
兰森是霍林斯大学的客座副教授,在她40年的职业生涯中出版了170多本儿童书籍,并因此获得了无数奖项。 Her newest, 毕业的一天! (Penguin Random House), is the latest in her “Day” 系列, which currently features a double-digit number of books.
“I wrote a book called 南瓜的一天! back in 2013 that is a Step 1 Reader (big type and easy words),” Ransom said. “That was followed by 苹果采摘日! The next thing I knew, I had a three-book contract and the 系列 just kept going. 我们最多有10本书,现在我们要把白天换成晚上。”
毕业的一天! has received a starred review from the 学校图书馆学报, which noted, “Kids who are beginning to read will feel the excitement of a new school adventure with this delightful easy reader.”
米歇尔·贾普萨08年语料库文学硕士

Previously, Corpora ghost-wrote five novels for a middle-grade mystery 系列 and under her own name penned 美国马的故事:沙尘暴 and 战争迷雾:玛莎·盖尔霍恩在d日登陆. The journey to fruition for her newest book, 冬青恐怖 (Penguin Random House), began when her agent came to her with an unusual proposal from the publisher.
“They wanted to ‘Riverdale’ the character 冬青的爱好 – take a 系列 that is very innocent and sweet from the 70s and 80s and make it dark,” Corpora explained. 但与此同时,“对于授权方和所有喜欢这个角色的人来说,公正地对待它,而不是把一切都搞得很糟糕,这一点很重要。 他们想让它成为一本青少年读物,但也适合青少年读者中最年轻的读者。”
对于Corpora来说,这个项目具有挑战性,但也“非常非常有趣”。 我一直都是自由支配的。 实际上,我一个月前刚刚读完第二部(一本圣诞恐怖小说),这本书将于明年出版。 我希望会有第三部来完成这个系列。”

杰西卡·李·安德森04级文学硕士
安德森的新书系列源于她在COVID-19大流行期间在户外度过的大量时间。 “我遇到了很多蛇,”她回忆说。 “我曾经很害怕它们,但我得到了一些知识,减轻了我的恐惧,我开始对蛇着迷。”
安德森受到启发创作了纳奥米·纳什这个角色,“她想成为一名像她妈妈一样的异国兽医,改变人们对蛇的看法和态度。”
Naomi is the protagonist of four books: 储蓄蛇 (“Snakes find themselves in some tricky situations in Naomi’s Texas neighborhood.”); 球蟒之谜 (“娜奥米发现了一条逃跑的蟒蛇,想要养它,但不知道它是不是一只逃跑的宠物”); 戏剧面条 (“娜奥米必须参加戏剧夏令营,但她更愿意探索大自然。”); and 池塘的问题 (“Someone finds a turtle and drops it off at a local pond, but it turns out the turtle is actually a tortoise, for whom a pond is not an appropriate environment.”).
All four books in the 拿俄米纳什 系列 are published by Capstone and intended for children in grades 1-3.
阿曼达·科克雷尔,69届,88届文学硕士

科克雷尔2023年的两部新小说中的一部已经酝酿了25年。 “I had been writing 狼的天气 (Northampton House Press) since somewhere in the early 90s, trying to make it work,” she explained. “我终于把这些东西凑到了一起,终于找到了一个出版商,他想听听这个国家在越南战争期间发生了什么,而没有人愿意谈论越战。”
Cockrell described 狼的天气 as a “new adult” novel where the two main characters “are 18 when it starts and maybe 23 when it ends. 一开始,两人中的女性在罗阿诺克就读一所名叫卡特·伦道夫的大学,这可能与霍林斯有一定的相似之处。 去过霍林斯的人会认出贝西·卡特·伦道夫是霍林斯的第一批女校长之一。”

Writing as Damion Hunter, Cockrell enjoyed a second book publication this year with 帝国的边缘 (Canelo), the sequel to last year’s 鹰之影 (Canelo), a novel of Roman Britain and part of an intended trilogy that she said has largely come together by happenstance.
“I had just retired (as director of Hollins’ children’s literature programs in 2018) and I got an email from a relatively young publishing house in the UK that said, ‘We just came 赌球在线 your old 百夫长系列 that you published in the 80s, would you like to republish those?’我说:‘是的,当然。“在经历了很多争取版权的过程后,我们重新出版了这个系列,我最后完成了另外两本书,然后开始写这个新的三部曲。”
Cockrell的建议吗? “不要扔掉手稿,因为我的地下室里有百夫长系列的第四卷,写了一半。 你永远不知道会发生什么——这是我目前的文学座右铭。”

Lisa Rowe Fraustino -霍林斯大学儿童文学研究生项目主任
Fraustino became interested in 绒毛兔 while teaching it in her classes. She started thinking about putting together a 系列 of essays on the British children’s classic a few years ago when she saw a list published by the Children’s Literature Association (ChLA) of books that would soon be reaching their 100th birthday. 玛杰里·威廉姆斯最著名的作品,最初出版于1922年,也包括在内。
“They were looking for proposals from people to edit volumes on the books,” Fraustino recalled, “and in 2019 I drafted a call for papers on 绒毛兔 for that year’s ChLA conference.” 她收集了一些论文摘要,“虽然我有一些非常好的投稿,但它们有点太薄了,无法形成我想象中的那种体积。” 所以,我联系了更多的学者来填补我所看到的空白。”
The result, 绒毛兔100 (University Press of Mississippi), is a collection of 13 essays that brings a wide array of critical approaches to the book.
“绒毛兔100 more than doubles the amount of serious literary scholarship on 绒毛兔,” said Margaret Mackey, author of 空间、地点与儿童阅读发展:绘制联系. “这本文集中的文章探讨了这个故事的悖论和矛盾之处,并提出了许多引人入胜的新问题和问题。”
In addition to editing 绒毛兔100, Fraustino is among the book’s contributors along with co-author Maleeha Malik, currently an M.F.A. student in Children’s Literature.
丽贝卡·洛厄尔,19届艺术硕士

“Birds are just a part of my life,” Lowell said of her love affair that began with ducks around age seven – she would go on to 在邮票上画鸭子 between childhood and coming to Hollins – and listening to her grandfather’s stories, with which she was “always absorbed.”
捕捉飞行:在鸟的翅膀上翱翔 (企鹅兰登书屋出版),洛厄尔的新绘本,在她参加了一个名为“颜色集体”的Twitter活动后开始融合,这是一个每周一次的挑战,艺术家们根据一种颜色创作作品。 儿童图书编辑兼作家弗朗西斯·吉尔伯特(Frances Gilbert)第一次见到洛厄尔是在霍林斯大学(Hollins)做客座演讲时,她在看到她画的一幅鸟的插图后给她发了信息。
“她问我,‘你对这幅插图有什么看法吗?’”洛厄尔说。 “我回答说我可以想出一些东西,然后我根据这张照片写了一首诗,发给了她。 She wanted me to type it up, and that’s what led to 捕捉飞行.”
捕捉飞行 献给洛厄尔的父母和祖父母,感谢他们教会她如何热爱自然,也献给她的孩子们,她也在教导他们热爱自然。 不幸的是,她的祖父在这本书出版前去世了。 “我希望给他看,但我不能,因为他没有和我们在一起。 所以我在他的葬礼上读了。 我希望他能看到。 我用这本书来怀念他。”
汉·诺兰-客座副教授

A National Book Award winner for her YA novel 边缘之舞, Nolan’s latest book 跑过黑夜 (Simon and Schuster) is a young adult mystery about twin sisters, one of whom has died in what the police are calling a murder-suicide. 诺兰说:“斯科特,那个被遗弃的妹妹,不相信警察所说的,她努力了解真相,保护她的妹妹,这让小镇一片哗然。” “她正在努力解决这个问题,同时应对失去凯特的痛苦,并帮助她的母亲走出悲伤。”
为了分散注意力,斯科特开始跑步,参加了60英里的Hellgate 100公里比赛,这是一场真正的超级跑步者比赛,在弗吉尼亚州自然桥附近的蓝岭山脉举行。 加入这个元素对诺兰来说代表着梦想成真。
她解释说:“在我的写作生涯中,我一直想写关于跑步的文章,因为我非常喜欢跑步,但我从来没有想出合适的故事。” “我终于找到了合适的故事。”
跑过黑夜 也代表了诺兰的另一项成就。 “我喜欢推理小说,这是我写的第一部出版的推理小说。 当我第一次开始尝试写作以出版时,我从神秘开始,然后转向。 我很兴奋这是一个谜,我很兴奋这是一个谜。”
另外四名儿童文学和儿童图书写作与插画研究生项目的校友今年也有新书出版,但未能参加新书发行庆典:
多尼埃尔·克莱顿09级文学硕士, 客座副教授

Clayton’s 记忆窃贼 (Macmillan) is a fantasy adventure for children ages eight through 12 and is the sequel to 的Marvellers (Macmillan), a 纽约时报 bestseller that was her first foray into Middle Grade novels.

Bestselling author Rick Riordan noted, “的Marvellers deserves the highest compliment I can give a book: I want to live in this world.”
Clayton cowrote a second 2023 release, 乳白天空 (HarperCollins), with Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon. It is the sequel to 2021’s 停电 (HarperCollins). 两部小说都以黑人青少年的爱情为中心,面向13-17岁的青少年。
Homzie说:“这些书非常受欢迎,也很受欢迎。
在新书发布会上,克莱顿在校园里教授了一个为期一周的密集研讨会,名为“写作就是重写”,以帮助其他校友修改他们的手稿以供出版。
劳里·j·爱德华兹,20届文学硕士

Edwards publishes under her own name when she writes children’s books, but she has also penned a 系列 of Amish romance novels under the name 瑞秋·j·古德.
“These Amish romances are 《今日美国》 bestsellers, and you can find them all over the country,” Homzie noted.
Edwards/Good is prolific: In 2023 alone, 阿米什圣诞双胞胎, 她假装的阿米什男朋友, 阿米什圣诞金纳, 阿米什人女儿失踪, and the 阿米什侦探贝努埃尔·米勒合集, which she either wrote or cowrote, have been or will be published by Zebra Books.
多丽娜·拉佐·吉尔摩-杨11届艺术硕士

Gilmore-Young’s children’s book 追求神的荣耀 (Penguin Random House) is about “a little girl who is just really interested in an adventure,” Homzie stated. “这种方法是从基督教的角度出发的。”

她补充说:“除了传统的世俗出版之外,还有很多机会,无论是冒险还是其他任何可以从基督教、犹太教或穆斯林的角度来做的事情。 有很多大型发行商,也有小众发行商。”
A second 2023 release by Gilmore-Young, 在悲伤中呼吸 (Penguin Random House), is “a devotional,” Homzie said. “她能够用她的信仰度过一段非常困难的时期,她喜欢帮助别人走出悲伤。”
阿里·斯坦迪什15届文学硕士

巴斯克维尔庄园的离奇故事 这本书是斯坦迪什与图书包装公司Working Partners合作撰写的关于年轻时的夏洛克·福尔摩斯的系列丛书的第一部,Working Partners与阿瑟·柯南·道尔爵士的遗产管理公司合作。
“她和Working Partners的关系是从霍林斯开始的,”Homzie解释道。 “阿里在我辅导的时候,Michelle Corpora和他们一起做编辑,安排阿里去实习,结果很顺利。 Ali ended up becoming an editor herself and now she is doing the 不可思议的故事 project. 看到这一切是如何在霍林斯开始的,真是太棒了。”
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