Sylvia McNicoll
Canadian Author for Young People
Celebrating two new books: Blue to the Sky and The-Go Between
What better way to celebrate a new book that to do it with a friend. Double the fun, double the cupcakes! I think what you'll love about the two totally different novels is the characters. In Blue to the Sky, quirky 12 year-old Allergic-to-Everything Ella is...
Blue to the Sky–the trailer!
Allergic-to-Everything girl comes alive in this book trailer for Blue to the Sky! 12 year old Ella is one of my favourite characters ever. You'll love her. She's so quirky.
CCBC Book Week Tour!
Happy to have been selected to tour, in person, the province I think of as my long lost home, Quebec. For these tours, the cost drops significantly so it's a great opportunity for a school to engage their young readers with a writer they may not know yet. Having...
Book trailer time!
How do you create a book trailer? I start with a short script that I run by my son Craig (EpiloguePoductions.com). For Blue to the Sky, I wanted to show my main character Ella training for her big...
Final, final, cover
The colour has been corrected; here is the final image. In order to bond with it I will have a t-shirt made with the image on it. DCB will also create a poster for me to display at upcoming events. Can you see any differences between this and the last cover?
And the Final Cover is….
Climbing the stairs, with a dog standing by for moral support, and surrounded by ribbons of words that 12 year old Ella recites to shore herself up and to memorize for her CN tower recital--here it is the final cover. This week this image will be finalized with some...
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