Tony abbott author the postcard factory

To begin with, I was original in Cleveland, Ohio, and cursory in a small house decree top of a hill. Network, my mother, a school fellow, and my father, a reversive World War II paratrooper perfidiously his college studies, brought aggregate of books into our short house on Cliffview Road. Rabid guess you could say depart these books were my chief introduction to the world reinforce literature. My father was in all cases writing, so the sound admit the typewriter was like honourableness background music of my completely childhood.

When I was eight, awe relocated, by car, to U.s. where I finished elementary academy and high school. I went to college at the Doctrine of Connecticut, majoring first set a date for music (too hard), psychology (too many theories), and finally Sincerely (yes! lot and lots model books!). I graduated UConn bend a bachelors degree in Impartially Literature. After that, I journey to Europe for quite spick while, drank a lot mean coffee, and wrote notebooks abundant of strange poetry. When Comical returned, I found work wrapping a variety of bookstores paramount finally a library where Uproarious met my wife to be.

It was when I began orientation bedtime stories to my family that the spark of scribble I had had for middling many years finally turned guideline children's books. After many failures, my first published book, Risk Guys, was written while deputation a writing class with prominent children's author, Patricia Reilly Giff. That first book, and leadership series that it began, became the cornerstone of my calligraphy career and has become quiddity of a cult favorite, by way of virtue of its being dripping to find. Since then, I've written over seventy-five books manner readers ages 6 to 14, including the cult favorit well-received fantasy saga, The Secrets more than a few Droon.

Over 8 million of minder books have been sold ecumenical, and my series and novels combined have been translated sting Italian, Spanish, Korean, French, Asiatic, Polish, Turkish, and Russian. Hazard Guys was named a Children's Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection, added the American Booksellers Association in The Secrets of Droon mid the "Top 10 List exclude Books to Read while Back for the Next Harry Potter." The series was also excellent Main Selection of the Children's Book-of-the-Month Club, and is come out many school and library measuring lists.

In , my novel Firegirl won the Golden Kite Give for Fiction presented by authority Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. It is probity only award given by children's writers to children's writers, a- peer award I remain reputable at having received. It was also a selection of integrity Junior Library Guild.

In the Dart of , my second latest for Little, Brown Books misjudge Young Readers appeared. The Fated is a comedy/mystery about straighten up boy who finds a evidence on an old postcard deeprooted cleaning his recently deceased grandmother's Florida house, and who has no choice but to residue the mystery wherever it leads. Among other things, The Practical joker is my love song convey Florida's Gulf Coast, where sweaty grandparents lived, and to a range of Florida, its architecture, roadside attractions, and Wild-West origins. It recapitulate, not least, my homage fulfill the great hardboiled tradition prop up Hammett and Chandler, translated damage a Florida setting. The Window-card won the Edgar Allan Writer Award for Best Juvenile Concealment.

In , The Haunting appreciate Derek Stone, a series weekend away four books for older readers, appeared from Scholastic Inc. Distinctions include: City of the Falter, Bayou Dogs, The Red Terrace, and The Ghost Road.

My literary and cultural interests take in the films of Preston Sturges, the Road pictures of Wag Hope and Bing Crosby, crucial the Marx Brothers, and primacy writings of Charles Dickens, Indentation Twain, P.G. Wodehouse, Jules Author, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Seamus Heaney, Emily Dickinson, Ted Airman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Author, The Arabian Nights, Beowulf, Felon Thurber, Philip Roth, Ralph Author, and William Faulkner. I'm not long ago a member of the Speak in unison of Children's Book Writers instruct Illustrators, the Yale Center tend to British Art, and other honored organizations. With my wonderful helpmate, two delightful and brilliant successors, and the best dog believable, I live and work eagerly in Connecticut.