Word Nerd has recently been nominated for the prestigious TD Children's Literature Award. Winners will be announced at a gala dinner on November 19th in Toronto, Ont.

Susin Nielsen will be reading at the International Festival of Authors on October 24, 2009, as part of a panel of finalists for the TD Children's Literature Award. She will also be featured on CBC Radio's North by Northwest radio show as the guest author on one of Sheryl MacKay's Studio One bookclubs, date TBA.

Word Nerd was recently published in Italy, under the title, Lo Sfigato.

Nielsen is currently working on her second young adult novel, currently titled Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom. It will be published by Tundra Books in fall 2010.

TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and CBC radio put on a nation-wide contest for students who could "win" one of the nominated authors to visit their school and tape a CBC radio book club. All they had to do was submit a cheer. Vancouver and Edmonton won Susin! Click on the link below, then click on "Vancouver" and/or "Edmonton" to hear the winning cheers! Podcasts of the book clubs will be posted in November.

For more information of the CBC radio book club, click here.

Word Nerd has been nominated for two Forest of Reading awards, the Red Maple and the Golden Oak.

Nielsen has just submitted the final version of her manuscript for her new young adult novel, "Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom." It will be published by Tundra Books in fall 2010.