Erin Dionne is a writer and teacher living in the greater
Boston area. Her first novel, Models
Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies (2009), published by Dial Books for Young
Readers, was selected as a Featured Title for Scholastic Book Fairs. Her next
book, The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named
Hamlet (Dial Books 2010), received starred reviews, was featured in major
market magazines (Disney’s Family Fun
Time and Girl’s Life), and has
been named to several state reading lists. Her third novel, Notes from An Accidental Band Geek (Dial 2011) was inspired by Erin’s
eight years spent in marching band, has been embraced by the US Scholastic
Bands Association and also appears on several state reading lists.
Additionally, she is proud to be a contributor to the anthology Dear Bully (Harper Collins, 2011).
Her next novel, based on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
art theft, Moxie and the Art of Rule
Breaking, will be released by Dial Books in July, 2013.
Erin received a BA in English and Communications from Boston
College in 1997 and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in
1999. She is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and
Illustrators. Currently, she is an assistant professor of liberal arts at
Montserrat College of Art, in Beverly, Mass.
Quirky writing habit:
In
order to start a new book, I need to find a blank journal that has a cover that
somehow represents or relates to my main character. I keep all kinds of notes,
lists, timelines, etc, in the journal and do a lot of prewriting in there
before I start sitting at the keyboard.
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Elsie Wyatt is a born French horn player, just like her father and her grandfather before her. In order to qualify for the prestigious summer music camp of her dreams, she must expand her musical horizons and join - gasp! - the marching band. There are no French horns in marching band (what the heck is a mellophone??), but there are some cute boys. And marching band is very different from orchestra: they march, they chant, they . . . cluck? Elsie is not so sure she'll survive, but the new friends she's making and the actual fun she's having will force her to question her dad's expectations and her own musical priorities.
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Elsie Wyatt is a born French horn player, just like her father and her grandfather before her. In order to qualify for the prestigious summer music camp of her dreams, she must expand her musical horizons and join - gasp! - the marching band. There are no French horns in marching band (what the heck is a mellophone??), but there are some cute boys. And marching band is very different from orchestra: they march, they chant, they . . . cluck? Elsie is not so sure she'll survive, but the new friends she's making and the actual fun she's having will force her to question her dad's expectations and her own musical priorities.