'Growing up isn't easy, but sometimes being true to yourself is even harder.'
Meet author Ellen Mulholland
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Author, baker, reader, poet, teacher, mom, star gazer, dreamer.
I grew up in the low Southern California desert on a block filled with boys. Dirt-clod throwing, tree-climbing, worm-eating boys. I countered that world with fiction, spending hours at the local library reading hundreds of books and imagining life as Nancy Drew, Elizabeth Bennett, and Mick Kelly.
Last year (2018) I entered the RevPit Twitter writing contest. I was selected along with ten others to receive a full developmental edit of my current manuscript. Woot, woot! After the amazing editorial agent Kaitlyn Johnson handed me a pair of hedge trimmers, we whipped my middle grade baking fantasy, THE MAGICAL LEMON TREE RECIPE BOOK, into shape. Within weeks, I’d signed with agent Kortney Price of Corvisiero Literary Agency.. We are currently on submission.
In the meantime, I’ve drafted three other stories. I like to stay busy with my writing. I’m always revising something. Currently, Kortney and I are working through a MG soccer fantasy. While I wait for Kortney’s edits, I’m working on a middle grade mystery that involves an accidental goat heist. I’m on draft two. That’s when I call in my amazing critique partners, Jaime Berry and Ariadne Lukas for feedback.
My writing process looks a little like this: ...(read more).
Visit my Prose site.
Read an excerpt of THIS GIRL CLIMBS TREES or BIRDS ON A WIRE.
Check out my advice to young writers.
Watch This Girl's book trailer here.
Connect with me on Twitter . I'm available for author visits in the classroom (San Francisco Bay Area or nearby).
Thank you for stopping by.
I grew up in the low Southern California desert on a block filled with boys. Dirt-clod throwing, tree-climbing, worm-eating boys. I countered that world with fiction, spending hours at the local library reading hundreds of books and imagining life as Nancy Drew, Elizabeth Bennett, and Mick Kelly.
Last year (2018) I entered the RevPit Twitter writing contest. I was selected along with ten others to receive a full developmental edit of my current manuscript. Woot, woot! After the amazing editorial agent Kaitlyn Johnson handed me a pair of hedge trimmers, we whipped my middle grade baking fantasy, THE MAGICAL LEMON TREE RECIPE BOOK, into shape. Within weeks, I’d signed with agent Kortney Price of Corvisiero Literary Agency.. We are currently on submission.
In the meantime, I’ve drafted three other stories. I like to stay busy with my writing. I’m always revising something. Currently, Kortney and I are working through a MG soccer fantasy. While I wait for Kortney’s edits, I’m working on a middle grade mystery that involves an accidental goat heist. I’m on draft two. That’s when I call in my amazing critique partners, Jaime Berry and Ariadne Lukas for feedback.
My writing process looks a little like this: ...(read more).
Visit my Prose site.
Read an excerpt of THIS GIRL CLIMBS TREES or BIRDS ON A WIRE.
Check out my advice to young writers.
Watch This Girl's book trailer here.
Connect with me on Twitter . I'm available for author visits in the classroom (San Francisco Bay Area or nearby).
Thank you for stopping by.
Best tips for storytelling. Ever. (thanks @A_WritersStudio @DisneyPixar)
If you're a teen, this site has great ideas to get you started on your writing path.
If you're a teen, this site has great ideas to get you started on your writing path.
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