ACADIAN STAR: Nominated for the 2009/2010 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award
Information
- Affiliation:
- by Hélène Boudreau, Nimbus Publishing
- Location:
- **AVAILABLE IN STORES across CANADA / TO BE RELEASED in the US April, 2009!**
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Book CoversUpdated about a month ago
AppearancesCreated on July 7, 2008 at 5:59pm
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Events
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- Ontario launch of ACADIAN STAR
Markham Village library
Friday, November 28 at 10:30am - ACADIAN STAR launch!
Petit de Grat Branch Library
Saturday, October 18 at 2:00pm
Notes
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- Unofficially Official Agent Appreciation Day 11:36am Dec 11
- Synopsis writing in 9 easy steps… 8:09am Oct 15
- NaNoWriMo Walk and Write 2:56pm Oct 13
YA author extraordinaire, Kody Keplinger has started a grassroots Unofficially Official Agent Appreciation Day (today!) so I thought I’d join in on the fun. Check out Lisa and Laura Roecker’s blog for a list of all the participating authors. I ...
Ah, the dreaded synopsis. Authors hate to write them but they’re a necessary, albeit evil,step in the querying process. When querying agents/editors, some require a 1 or 2 page synopsis with your initial query. Others will ask for it when they request pages, especially a partial. ...
NaNoWriMo is fast approaching. This will be my third year. Woot! From the NaNoWriMo site: National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30...
What a week! I’m shaking my head in total disbelief. First THIShappened and nowMORE good news. Far more than I deserve. ...
Raynbow Gignilliat I just read your news over on the BB, but I wanted to pop over here and congratulate you. You must be so thrilled about your PB! Yay!!!!
When I was 9…my teacher wrote a picture book. She brought it to school to show us and I remember howshe went from teacher to goddess that afternoon, with every flip of the page. Wow! A real author! In my little town! ...
Barry Renouf Helene, will you be writing a book about the ethnic cleansing of the NB Acadians by the Quebec French?
Thanks to everyone who participated in my first annual ‘TALK LIKE A CAJUN/ACADIAN’ contest. I had a blast reading all of your entries! Now, the moment of truth. Yo...
Okay, okay, so it’sNOT exactly ‘Talk like a Cajun/Acadian Day’ but August 15thIS National Acadian Day. To celebrate…a CONTEST…to win a copy of my middle grade novel, ACADIAN STAR. To win,...
10 kilometers 1 L of water 1 hour 16 minutes of pounding the pavement 141 competitors DEAD LAST....
Helen Boudreaux Bonjour Hélène Boudreau, c'est l'autre Hélène Boudreau avec le (x) de la Louisienne. Bonne chance.
I had a very fun and busy spring, filled with school and library visits, a non-fiction writing project (done! yay!) and writing/revising/submittingof my tween novel. So what’s next? ...
In a moment of sheer, over-inflated confidence, I signed up for a triathlon in August. Do I swim? Um, yes, but haven’t for a while. Can I bike? I *own* a bike. Does that count? Do I run? Well…*lumber* would be a more accurate description. Bu...
I finally got around to customizing the stockartwork thatcame with this website’s template. Now that I’m all moved in, I feel like I should have a housewarming. Anyone bring pizza? Hors d’oeuvres? Drinks? Anywho, notice a theme? Yup, I am indeed a fan of the emoticon. Which is YOUR favourite?
