Past Featured Writers
2012
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Rhody Cohon
Rhody Cohon (with her writing partner Stacia Deutsch) is the co-author of the BLAST
TO THE PAST Series, IN THE STARS, HOT PURSUIT, DRAGONBALL THE MOVE, THE
SMURFS MOVIE NOVELIZATION and other books. She has been a member of
SCBWI since 1999.
Cohon's
background in Electrical and Computer Engineering comes in handy with
amazing frequency when she is writing, especially when her computer
freezes, her website needs updating, her printer won’t respond and she
needs to do research, her plot-line is veering off-course, or an e-book
needs formatting. It is remarkable how well her passion for computers,
numbers, logic, and technology has helped form her as a writer and a
person. Cohon's used to teach math at a local community college. Now, in
addition to writing, she teaches writing helps other authors bring
their writing into the world as an e-book. Cohon has been a member of SCBWI since 1999.
"Here’s to looking at the world not as a
half-full cup, not as a half-empty cup, but as an engineer who thinks we
just need a different size cup."
-Rohdy Cohon
http://www.roadrunnercoyote.com/Index.html
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Janette Rallison
Janette Rallison is a writer of novels for young adult readers. Her latest title is SLAYERS (Feiwel and Friends) written under the pseudonym C.J. Hill. Janette is making her fantasy debut with this book.
Some of Janette’s other titles include JUST ONE WISH (Putnam Juvenile Books), MY FAIR GODMOTHER (Walker Books for Young Readers), REVENGE OF THE CHEERLEADERS (Walker Books), AND IT’S A MALL WORLD AFTER ALL (Walker Books).
Janette grew up in Pullman, Washington and currently lives in Chandler, Arizona. She has been a member of SCBWI since 1992. SCBWI Arizona is delighted to honor Janette as a featured author of the region.