Please welcome Lellie Lopter to the #CYASuccess family.

“From the date of my assessment to the date of publication it took just 72 days. During this time, I had undergone major surgery and was confined to bed for 8 weeks. From my bed I recruited illustrators from all over the world, connected with Red Nose Australia to set up the ongoing charitable donations of 100% of the profits, completed the layout and design of the book, set it up for international sales and created an accompanying video that is available immediately and for free whenever a family needs it. The book and video of ‘My Brother Born Sleeping’ has now helped over 500 families tackle the difficult conversation of pregnancy and infant loss with siblings. Without the connections I made from the Kid Lit community at the CYA conference, and without the kindness of the assessors who rejected my manuscript, I would never have had the confidence to undertake this project and this book wouldn’t exist.”

Read Lellie’s full story at https://www.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/lellie-lopter

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Please welcome Mo Davey to the #CYASuccess family.

“CYA has been a huge part of my writing and illustrating career! I had my first hint of success and a feeling that my writing was heading in the right direction when I came 3rd place for my middle grade, 1st place for a chapter book and 1st place for a picture book manuscript a few years ago. I can't believe it has been almost ten years since I first started attending CYA Conferences and I have finally made it as a published author/illustrator for a picture book called 'I am Tree Rex!' Feedback from an assessment during a CYA conference was instrumental in getting this manuscript to the place where it is today and I am forever thankful!”

Read Mo’s full story at https://www.cyaconference.com/cyasuccess/mo-davey

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Very honored to have been interviewed for the Horror Writers Association Women In Horror Month Series: https://horror.org/women-in-horror-month-2024-an-interview-with-lori-r-lopez 🖤 🎩 👻

#WomenInHorrorMonth #WIHM #HorrorWriters #DarkPoet #AuthorIllustrator #HorrorFamily #HorrorCommunity #AuthorInterview #FinalGirls #Survivors #Abuse #Eviction #LoriRLopez #Author

It got too fiddly to post the text each day here but you can read the full story of The Boy And The Swan over on my website now:

https://nicolaschofield.com/the-boy-and-the-swan/

It's been fantastic joining Folktale week for the first time!

#folktaleweek #illustration #kidlitart #MastoArt #folktale #authorillustrator

I haven't been here much as of late. It looks like I'm making my SM home over at BlueSky. A great children's book community is growing there! Find me @tracivw.bsky.social

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