I am very fortunate to have work that I enjoy as a theater critic with the Dallas Morning News. How do you balance your regular career with your children's writing career? I feel so blessed to work with both of these editors.Ħ. I am working on my third book with Marissa now, too. Karen sold my second book, Manjhi Moves a Mountain, to Marissa Moss at Creston Books and that has been an amazing experience as well.
I am now working on my third book with Wendy and each journey is a joy. Karen sent out my freshly revised version again in 2014 and voila! The lovely Wendy McClure of Albert Whitman accepted it right away. I studied what the editors were saying and then I got another brainstorm. I sent it to Karen Grencik of Red Fox Literary, the agent of that month, and she got back to me within the hour saying she wanted to send it out! Now I should tell you that that version of William Hoy also met with rejections, but nice, detailed ones. Then, in July I woke up at 4:00 am with a brainstorm about how to rewrite William Hoy based on what I had learned the previous six months. During this time I knew that my story on William Hoy wasn’t ready, so I sent out different stories to the first six agents of January through June. One of the perks of the gold membership in 2013 was the opportunity to submit to one agent each month. My new book, Manjhi Moves a Mountain, came out in September and I will have three more books out in 2018.ģ. You found your agent as a participant of 12X12. Kids have written almost 1,000 letters! I fell so in love with writing children’s books about “hidden” heroes - inspiring people that kids didn’t know about yet - I just kept going. I promised I would write a children’s book so kids would know the story and that the kids who got to know William Hoy would help by writing letters to the Hall of Fame. What made you decide to foray into the field of children's literature?Ī man named Steve Sandy, who is deaf and a friend of the William Hoy family, told me his dream for William Hoy, the deaf hero who introduced signals to baseball so he could play the game he loved, to be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. I hope you enjoy learning from Nancy - she has wonderful things to say to those of us still waiting our publishing debut.ġ. I asked Nancy is she'd be willing to do an interview for the GROG, and with trademark grace and kindness she agreed. Nancy's debut picture book biography, William Hoy, How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game was published in 2016 and she has a pipeline of other recently published books and ones still to come. We didn't know each other, nor was her name even familiar to me, but our chance meeting has given me sort of a front row seat in watching a career develop and forge ahead full steam. Last year at the 2016 Week of Writing Conference in Georgia, I had the utmost good fortune to be roomies with Nancy Churnin.
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