This is the second, children's ebook Hall of fame Year 2001-2002 The children's Ebook Hall of fame was founded in 2000 by Valerie Hardin to promote children's ebooks, YA fiction, middle grade, and illustrating.
They are picked by Valerie's staff. Okay She had help from Jennifer L.B. Leese, but it was a lot of help. Jennifer L.B. Leese was a finalist for the 2001 Eppies as well as well as being a reviewer, a mom, and a 2000-2001 children's ebook hall of fame inductee. Her site Jennifer L.B. Leese
Valerie Hardin is an Eppie finalist for her children's ebooks, Two Turtles published by hardshell.com and I am With My mom on Sunday published by www.streetsaint.com
She also writes poetry for adults, genre, nonfiction and is a gothic artist. You can read some of Valerie's children's stories and poems here at Rag Soup. Rag soup is edited and ran by Susan R. Higgins Rag Soup
Kym Jones is a Graphic Designer/Illustrator, born in Adelaide, South Australia. She lived in Texas for three years prior to returning to Adelaide in 1999 and hopes to return to the US one day. Her mother was a well known writer in Adelaide so her childhood was filled with lots of "imagination candy" and that enables her to work well with writers exchanging ideas and building characters. She started experimenting with digital illustrating about five years ago and "fell" into designing e-covers and illustrating e-books when she was asked to illustrate Elaine's Amazing Stink by Valerie Hardin. Kym Illustrated NO MORE GOOSEBERRY PIE, Written by Dorothy Thompson. This has been one of the most exciting areas she has been involved in and she is now designing for POD books as well.
Her site E Graphics
Nancy Coffelt is a native Oregonian and animal lover who has been drawing pictures from the time she could hold a piece of chalk. When she was a kid, she couldn't decide whether to be a veterinarian or an artist, so when Nancy grew up she decided to have the best of both worlds and draw pictures of animals. She works in oil pastels on black paper and my pieces are shown in galleries across the country. She also designed for such companies as Starbucks and The Nature Company. Her first picture book was published by Harcourt in 1992 and she went on to do three more with them and one with Flying Rhinoceros. New releases include "What's Cooking?" coming from Chronicle Books, Spring 2003 and "Fred Stays With Me" from Little, Brown & Co. in 2004. She also a cofounder of SeeSpotBooks.com, an epublisher dedicated to the promotion of children's literature in an electronic format and have picture books and works for young adults, too, under that imprint. She likes to hike and bike with her husband, and teen-age son. Her site is Nancy Coffelt
Lynne Hansen is the author of The Heritage Of Horror series of young adult historical horror novels from Wordbeams. She is also the moderator of the ChildrensE-bookPromotion discussion group and the host of the Children's and Young Adult E-book Promotion Network web site. Ebook Promo
Her first book, THE RETURN, debuted at number one on the Young Adult E-book Bestseller List. The Heritage Of Horror series follows the cursed Gray family through history as they combat monster after monster. In THE RETURN, teen twins Molly and Jacob Gray resurrect zombies during the Revolutionary War. Future books in the series include MOON SHADOW (werewolves in 1870's frontier Kansas) and SWAMP SECRETS (Bigfoot hunters in 1820's Florida.) You can find out more information about Lynne and her books at Heritage Of Horror
Dorothy Thompson is a freelance writer from the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Dorothy writes for several ezines including Writers Exchange, Writers Manual, Webwriter News, Authormania and many more. She is currently owner/editor of The Writer's Life an online writing ezine which manages submissions from aspiring writers. The Writer's Life
Her latest children's book, "No More Gooseberry Pie!" is available at Writers-Exchange E-Publishing Writers-Exchange
Her latest project is "Romancing the Soul", a soul mate anthology Romancing The soul
Gregory & Denise Michel: live in Texas. Denise Michel sometimes writes under the name Denise Gasta. They share their life with a wonderful cat, Sophie. Their works include, "Monarch Kingdom: Life of a Butterfly," (poetry) "The Butterfly Garden" (children); and "Danny" (children). These books have received four- and five-star reviews and critical praise. They write, draw, paint, and develop web sites. Website design can be found at their business site, Wolf Dragon Design Wolf Dragon Design
The anthologies "Between Darkness & Light," and "Poetry Elite: The Best Poets of 2000" (both by International Society of Poets), feature dramatic poetry by both Greg ("Aurora Borealis") and Denise ("Radio Static"). Greg's work has been featured in Dream International Quarterly. He has had two one-man shows featuring his oil paintings. They are currently working on a new children's series, "There's a Dinosaur…" Greg and Denise also have several other books in progress, including poetry, a cookbook, and a mystery series.
If you want to read the list of others of the 2000-2001 inductees you can find them here. Hall of fame
