| Shelley Mickle is an award-winning author who has been publishing books with Algonquin Press, Simon and Schuster, River City Press and others for more than thirty years. She is also a popular commentator for NPR with her humorous essays. She has now, in the last chapter of her career, (taking the lead of Mark Twain who started his own publishing house and brought out Ulysses S. Grant's memoir) started her own publishing company, Wild Onion Press, Books Starring Kids with Physical Differences to fill a need in American culture. After a lifetime spent studying literature and publishing, she sees a desperate need to create literary characters in heroic roles who have physical differences. See the authors she is publishing and learn about Wild Onion Press at www.wildonionpress.com | |
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How
Local Author, Shelley Fraser Mickle, is Erasing Differences for
Children
An author for over forty years, Shelley Fraser Mickle has chosen in her work to focus on children – special children – those who are physically different in some way. Read the entire article by Kendal Norris – The Village Journal
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Club promotes “Power of Reading” Tuesday, August 31st, 2010Boys and Girls Club joins Gainesville author Shelley Mickle Fraser in program.
A miniature horse,
a former University of Florida Gator and Atlanta Falcons
quarterback and a young boy from the boys and Girls Club of
Alachua County helped to kick off “The Power of
Reading,” a program that promotes literacy.
County, said the Boys and Girls Club has joined forces with Wild Onion Press, founded by local author Shelley Fraser Mickle, in “The Power of Reading, ” a program that promotes literacy through photo essays, or posters, of a celebrity athlete reading with a child from the Boys & Girls Club. –Read the entire article by Aida Mallard, Special to The Voice. |
Keith
Blanchard, president and chief professional officer of the