Dear Teachers and Librarians,

It's been a busy week as we've welcomed three exciting additions to our growing family of authors and illustrators.  Two are announced in today's news.  Be sure to read next week's news to learn the identity of the third!

Also in this issue:

Launching our new website!

Fall tours from Out-of-Province Authors

Meet the Author: Celia Godkin

Quick Links.

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INTRODUCING www.AUTHORSBOOKING.COM!

We are pleased to announce that our new website is up and running. We are adding content every week, so drop by often:

www.authorsbooking.com

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Welcome New Members!

Laura Langston.  Laura makes her home in British Columbia but will be visiting Ontario for a short time this September.  (See below for details.)  Winner of the Kobzar Award (Lesia's Dream) this author has also been nominated for the Snow Willow, Silver Birch, Rocky Mountain and others.  

Norah McClintock. Canada's leading lady of young adult mysteries is the only author to have won the Arthur Ellis Award in the juvenile category an impressive five times.  Also winner of the 2004 Red Maple Award for Hit and Run, McClintock makes her home in Toronto.  Norah is currently accepting bookings for October of 2007.

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Out-of-Province Authors now planning Fall Tours!

It's not too early to book an author for the fall, and here is a great opportunity to snap up an out-of-province author without the burden of long distance travel costs!!  

Book today and save by accessing funds available to you through the Writers' in the Schools Program!  (Contact us if you need details about obtaining funding.)

SEPTEMBER:

Laura Langston:  Author of:

Mile High Apple Pie

Lesia's Dream

Exit Point

Finding Cassidy . and others.

Laura's dates: September 10 in the Guelph area.  September 11 and 12 in the Toronto area.

Tololwa Mollel: Author of:

The Orphan Boy

The Flying Tortoise

Big Boy

My Rows and Piles of Coins

Tololwa is available within 300 kilometres of Eden Mills: September 10 to 14, 2007.  This includes Toronto and surrounding area!

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER:

Michael Kusugak: Author of:

Baseball Bats for Christmas

The Curse of the Shaman

A Promise is a Promise (co-authored with Robert Munsch)

My Artic 1, 2, 3.

Michael is visiting Toronto and the surrounding area in mid October 2007. Contact us for dates.

Valerie Sherrard:  Author of:

Kate

Out of the Ashes, a Shelby Belgarden Mystery (and the Series)

Sam's Light

Sarah's Legacy

Valerie is available anywhere in Southern Ontario, November 2007.  Dates are flexible.  Multiple-session discounts.  Valerie will speak on literacy and will read from one of her 2007 novels: Speechless or her first historical fiction: Three Million Acres of Flame.

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Quick Links!  

To inquire about an author visit, reply to this message or email us at authors.bookingserv...@gmail.com    

For a complete list of our authors, information on school visits, tips, tricks and more, please visit:

www.authorsbooking.com

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Meet the Author: CElia godkin

Celia spent her childhood in Brazil, her adolescence in England and her adult life in Canada. Trained as a biologist, she worked variously as a school aide, fisheries biologist and herpetologist before embarking on
a career as a scientific illustrator. An illustration job preparing signs for the Winnipeg zoo led to collaboration with zoo director,Clive Roots, on Endangered Species: Canada's Disappearing Wildlife, published in 1987 by Fitzhenry & Whiteside.

Encouraged by this success, Celia illustrated an ecology story she had written many years earlier and showed it to her publisher. The resulting book, Wolf Island, won the 1990 Best Information Book Award
of the Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada and launched her career as a respected author/illustrator of children's natural science books.

In addition to her publications in children's literature, Celia has illustrated many textbooks and scientific papers and has written a number of technical works. She taught scientific illustration, painting
and drawing at the University of Toronto from 1987 - 2005, where she was an Associate Professor in Biomedical Communications.  

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Questions, comments or suggestions about this service?  We'd love to hear from you!  

Valerie & Marsha

Authors' Booking Service
Connecting Canadian Creators and Educators

If unable to reach us here, please contact Marsha at mar...@calla.com or Valerie at val...@nbnet.nb.