SEPTEMBER 1 2009
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.
OCTOBER 1 2009
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.
DECEMBER 1 2009
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.
MARCH 1 2010
Word Nerd has been shortlisted for the 2010 Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice Willow Award and the 2010 Rocky Mountain Book Award.
APRIL 1 2010
Susin will be doing a reading from Word Nerd at Frontier College’s Scrabble fundraiser! If you live in Vancouver, come on out – it’s on April 25, 12:30 pm in the Brittania High School cafeteria.
MAY 1 2010
Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom hits the bookshelves, August of 2010!
Susin will appear at the Vancouver Public Library's Bookcamp, as a keynote speaker, on August 11th.
Susin will be appearing at the Forest of Reading Awards Ceremony in Toronto on May 12th. Word Nerd is nominated for both the Red Maple and the Golden Oak Awards.
Word Nerd wins the Rocky Mountain Book Award, the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, and the OLA's Red Maple Award, all in one month!
JUL 1 2010
Word Nerd has been nominated for the inaugural Indigo Teen Read Awards,
under Best Canadian Read! Please vote for your favourite title!
AUG 1 2010
Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom hits the bookshelves on August 10! Read an advance review HERE
Susin will be a keynote speaker at the Vancouver Public Library's Book Camp on August 11th.
SEP 1 2010
September 15 - Book Launch for "Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom" at Kidsbooks on Broadway, Vancouver, 7:00 pm. Come on down!
September 25 - Susin will be at the Indigo Teen Read Awards Ceremony, Six Degrees, Toronto
September 26 - Word on the Street Toronto. Susin will read at 2:40 pm in the children's tent
September 27 - Susin will do a presention at a few local libraries in Ottawa, Ont. Check your local library for details!
September 29 - Book Launch for "Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom" at McNally-Robinson in Winnipeg, Manitoba! Come on out!
