Join me and featured author Tiffany Gholar as we talk about diversity in young adult fiction this upcoming Wednesday, October 19th, on the Shelf Addiction Podcast. I had a great time recording this episode, I hope you're following the podcast because you'll want to catch this episode!
Gholar was recently selected as a finalist in the Chicago Writers Association’s 2016 Book of the Year Awards competition in the non-traditional fiction category. The winner is announced this December. Send her a tweet and congratulate her!
Gholar was recently selected as a finalist in the Chicago Writers Association’s 2016 Book of the Year Awards competition in the non-traditional fiction category. The winner is announced this December. Send her a tweet and congratulate her!
Author Bio
I am a Chicago-based artist working in a variety of media. I have three primary bodies of work: The Doll Project, Post-Consumerism, and Recessionism. I studied art as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago and interior design at Harrington College of Design and hold a Masters Degree in Painting from Governors State University. My art has been exhibited in many Chicago-area venues, including group shows at Woman Made Gallery, The Chicago Children's Museum, and the Chicago Center for Green Technology, and in solo exhibitions at the Harold Washington Library and The Adler School for Professional Psychology.
I have written three books about my art: Post-Consumerism, Imperfect Things, and The Doll Project. When I am not painting, I work as a freelance interior designer and receptionist. In addition, I am a Jeopardy! champion.
I have written three books about my art: Post-Consumerism, Imperfect Things, and The Doll Project. When I am not painting, I work as a freelance interior designer and receptionist. In addition, I am a Jeopardy! champion.
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Featured Title | A Bitter Pill to Swallow
On the edge of the Chicago medical district, the Harrison School for Exceptional Youth looks like a castle in a snow globe. Janina has been there since she was ten years old, and now she's fourteen. She feels so safe inside its walls that she's afraid to leave.
Devante's parents bring him there after a tragedy leaves him depressed and suicidal. Even though he's in a different place, he can't escape the memories that come flooding back when he least expects them. Dr. Gail Thomas comes to work there after quitting her medical residency. Frustrated and on the verge of giving up on her dreams, she sees becoming a counselor as her last chance to put her skills to the test. When he founded the school, Dr. Lutkin designed its unique environment to be a place that would change the students' lives. He works hard as the keeper of other people's secrets, though he never shares any of his own. But everything changes late in the winter of 1994 when these four characters' lives intersect in unexpected ways. None of them will ever be the same. |
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