We are thrilled to welcome to the Manuscript Academy stage a class all about how you--yes, you!--and your book belong, even if the industry doesn't often do a good job of making you feel that way. 

In this workshop, two recovering posers and an award-winning middle grade authors will meet you where you are to share examples of when obstacles made quitting feel like the right decision. 

If you’re on the verge of giving up, come learn how to turn “insurmountable” roadblocks into stepping-stones to success!

From professional disappointments to personal challenges, stumbling blocks can become downright boulders. But what if the challenges that make success seem unattainable are there to propel you to the next level?

Come prepared to be guided through mind-body exercises and practical hands-on activities to manifest your personal success story.

Nancy Tandon is a children’s book author who loves sharing all kinds of stories. She has worked as an elementary school teacher, a speech-language pathologist, and an adjunct professor of Phonetics and Child Language Development, all of which helped plant seeds for stories about awesome kids doing brave things. Her debut middle grade novel, The Way I Say It (Charlesbridge, 2022) was an American Booksellers Association Indies Introduce and Indies Next pick as well as a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. She is also the author of The Ghost of Spruce Point, forthcoming from Aladdin/Simon & Schuster (2022). Born and raised in Michigan, Nancy now lives with her family in Connecticut.

Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo is the author of Each of Us a Universe (in which she collaborated with Ndengo Gladys Mwilelo), A Galaxy of Sea Stars and Ruby in the Sky, which earned two starred reviews and which Booklist called “quietly magical.”

Jeanne is also a volunteer with IRIS-Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services in New Haven, Connecticut. She lives in Ellington, Connecticut, with her husband, Paul and her children Andrew, Sophia, as well as her writing pal, Meadow the Wonder Pup!

A two-time cancer survivor, Jeanne has been a public defender, taught English at the Gymnazium Parovska in Nitra, Slovakia, worked on Capitol Hill and waited tables at an all-night café/bookstore in Washington, D.C. She is a member of SCBWI.

Join us for the class, Q&A, prizes, and a goodie bag! Prefer to join as a member and get our weekly events, early booking & holiday party ($49)? Learn more here: https://manuscriptacademy.com/membership

Non-Member Ticket ($25)

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You Belong Here with Nancy Tandon and Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo