Jude Mandell

Events

Jude teaches writing classes through the Brickton Art Center. Check their website for the newest entries: www.bricktonartcenter.org/classesAdult.html.

SCHOOL VISITS, WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS
Jude also provides private writing classes, editing/manuscript critiqe services, and private writing coaching. Jude’s creative and interactive presentations and workshops include:

SO YOU WANT TO WRITE A BOOK!
CHARACTERS, CHARACTERS, CHARACTERS!
THE JOURNALING JOURNEY
THE PLOT THICKENS
IMAGINE THAT!
ADVENTURES WANTED
RAPPIN’ ‘ROUND RHYMES
WRITING TO READ/READING TO WRITE
INSPIRATION TO PUBLICATION: HOW BOOKS ARE MADE
CHARACTER ARCS/STORY STRUCTURE
SHOW! DON’T TELL!

Selected Works

Children's Stories/Middle Grade Fiction

A THOROUGHLY MODERN RAPUNZEL, OR HOW I OUTSMARTED THE WITCH
Book 2's collection of humourous fairy tales is anything but Grimm! These stories were all evaluated by panels of school kids before inclusion in the volume. They gave Jude's story, "A Thoroughly Modern Rapunzel, or How I Outsmarted the Witch, in Newfangled Fairy Tales, Book #2, an enthusiastic "A!" Editorial Reviews: Ingram"The second book in the series of entertaining fairy tales with a delightfully newfangled twist, this collection includes ten new stories."

Middle Grade/Young Adult Fiction/Fantasy

PRINCESS DRAGONBLOOD
What if you learned that you were half-human and half-dragon--and the dragon side was winning out? Author Jude Mandell explores this dilemma in her story, Princess Dragonblood, (Scholastic) which Publisher's Weekly described as " . . . engaging . . . lyric."

Young Adult/Poetic Fiction

BALLAD OF A PRODIGY
"Ballad of a Prodigy," a seven-stanza story in free verse, which tells the story of a talented young singer, who finally finds her own path to happiness after being swept along by the ambitions of the adults who've hitched their hopes to her rising star

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