June 2023
Cover Reveal for TRICKY CHOPSTICKS!
Yayyy!!! I’m SO thrilled to share the 🤩COVER REVEAL🤩 for my debut picture book TRICKY CHOPSTICKS, illustrated by the fantabulous Fanny Liem—all made possible by Atheneum / Simon & Schuster!
Want to be one of the first readers on 3/19/24? A huge 😍 to YOU if you pre-order TRICKY CHOPSTICKS! Go to trickychopsticks.com for pre-order info (including author-signed copies + surprise swag via my local bookstore Brick & Mortar Books in Redmond, WA!) -or- if pre-ordering your usual way, see the special get-your-bookplate/swag form here.
🤩FOREVER thanks to my agent Alyssa Eisner Henkin for believing in my work & working with me to cultivate TRICKY CHOPSTICKS through to acceptance & publication ➕ an INFINITE THANK YOU to Kristie Choi, Reka Simonsen, and the @SimonKids team for making my dream come TRUE with TRICKY CHOPSTICKS! 😍
🤩🤩🤩 I can't thank Fanny Liem enough for bringing TRICKY CHOPSTICKS to life with all its humor and more. If you LOVE this cover, I can't WAIT for you to see all of Fanny's incredible art throughout! It is absolutely 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Thank you Fanny Liem!!! 🫶😍💖
😍 A super special SHOUTOUT to my most TRUSTED CPs Leila Boukarim, Patricia Oppenheim, Carrie Williford, Robin Sanders, Hannah Lapehn, DK Ryland, Josie Gawlowski, and Erin Matzen, who saw #TRICKYCHOPSTICKS from its very start. THANK YOU!!!
💖 Plus the most HEARTFELT gratitude to Mindy Alyse Weiss & #PBParty, Pam Calvert for your 🌟 mentorship via #PBChat by Justin Colón, @12x12Challenge, and countless confidantes in #KidLit who made a world of difference in my publishing journey (you know who you are!!!)💓
🥰 AND the greatest thanks of all to my WONDERFUL family for cheering me on at home no matter what: James, Mac & Jet 💖💓🫶
January 2022
Woohoo!
My debut picture book TRICKY CHOPSTICKS [March 2024, Atheneum/Simon & Schuster] has been officially announced (see the Publisher's Weekly Children's Bookshelf listing). If you want to read more about how this book came about, please check out this #PBParty Success Story.
Kristie Choi and Reka Simonsen at Atheneum have bought world rights to Tricky Chopsticks, a picture book by debut author Sylvia Chen (l.), illustrated by Fanny Liem. In this story loosely inspired by Chen's childhood, a girl determined to hold her own in her family's annual chopsticks challenge creates a solution through STEAM trial and error to master those slippery, oh-so-tricky chopsticks. Publication is slated for spring 2024; Alyssa Eisner Henkin of Birch Path Literary represented the author, and Christy Ewers at the CAT Agency represented the artist.
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