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NEW BOOK! Alice's Musical Debut by DuEwa Frazier

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DuEwa released her first children's picture book ALICE'S MUSICAL DEBUT in summer 2019!  A dream come true for a writer, literacy advocate, and book promoter who desired to write for children for many YEARS!!!  Alice's Musical Debut  by DuEwa Frazier Illustrated by Nadia Salas ( Lit Noire Publishing Children ) is a historical fiction picture book for young readers!  The story reimagines one day in the early childhood of notable jazz pianist, harpist, and organist Alice Coltrane (wife of jazz great John Coltrane). DuEwa is excited to share this story with young readers, parents, educators, and children's book lovers!  Follow DuEwa on Twitter @duewafrazier1

NEW RELEASE! Cake Literary presents TINY PRETTY THINGS

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The New School MFA in Creative Writing Program , my alma mater, has cultivated a cadre of talented children's writers who have stopped at nothing to be leaders in the genre of young adult and middle grade fiction.  Within this list of talented and prolific children's writers who are alums of the New School Writing for Children program include: Tonya Hegamin, Jenny Han, Caela Carter, Coe Booth and now Cake Literary founders Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton (class of 2012).   I met both Sona and Dhonielle at The New School during a children's literature workshop we took with YA author and Scholastic editor, David Levithan. Sona and Dhonielle have done much to bring issues in children's publishing to the forefront in recent years, particularly within the We Need Diverse Books movement. The duo is now set to release their first project, a young adult novel TINY PRETTY THINGS, after founding CAKE Literary , a literary development company.