Children's and Young Adult Authors' Panel

The panel was great! I got several tips about writing a children's book. We had a terrific dinner after the panel. This morning two of the panelists will join others to critique my manuscript and tonight is the book party.

Bookstore Display for the Book Party

Book Panel Exhibit

A student put together an exhibit for the book panel about writing children's non-fiction books.

                                                                                                                                                         

Panel

Next week I will workshop my children's book manuscript about Regina Andrews. Author Jan Pinborough and author/illustrator Don Tate will fly in to participate in the workshop. I also organized a panel the night before the workshop and two local authors, Ann Bausum and Jacqueline Houtman, will join Tate and Pinborough to talk about creating children's books about real people.

Book Party!

There will be a group book party on Friday, May 9th at a local, independent bookstore, A Room of One's Own. I'm very excited!

Z720.A63 W48

My book is now in the Library of Congress catalog and has been assigned a call number, LC classification: Z720.A63 W48 2014, and subject headings.

Subjects:	Andrews, Regina.
	New York Public Library. 135th Street Branch --Biography.
	Library directors --United States --Biography.
	African American women librarians --United States --Biography
	Harlem Renaissance.
	African Americans --New York (State) --New York --Intellectual life.
	African American theater --New York (State) --New York --History --20th century.
	Discrimination in employment.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women’s Studies.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
	Harlem (New York, N.Y.) --Intellectual life.

A Regina Andrews' Children's Picture Book

I was recently awarded a Public Works grant from my institution, the University of Wisconsin's Center for the Humanities. The grant is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is designed to "support faculty who wish to rethink their research in order to reach a broader public." The workshop will bring together experts in children's books to review my manuscript and to offer feedback. The goal is to publish a children's book about Regina Andrews and to introduce her story to a whole new audience.