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Doylestown, PA (Press Release), August, 2009

Two Central Bucks Teachers Accepted to Elite AuthorConference

Tiffany Schmidt, a sixth-grade teacher at Cold Spring Elementary and Scott Heydt, a fifth-grade teacher at Groveland Elementary were selected to fill two of 70 spots at the elite Rutgers University One on OnePlus Conference, sponsored by the Rutgers University Council on Children’sLiterature. 

One-on-One brings together the largest number of professionals of any conference of its kind. The unique one-on-one format gives writers and illustrators a rare opportunity to share their work with an assigned mentor. The conference also offers a chance to meet and exchange information and ideas with experienced editors, agents, art directors, authors, and illustrators, who have generously volunteered their time.

"I was away in Canada when I heard that the acceptance letters were mailed,”Schmidt says.  “This made for along rest of our vacation.  When we got home, I found the envelope with my acceptance letter and then did acelebration dance - while still standing at the end of my driveway.”

Schmidt will share her newest YA fiction manuscript, Lucky Mia, which tells the struggle of a high school girl who has been diagnosed with leukemia.  Mia wants everything in her life to go back tonormal, but as her illness progress she comes to realize that her old definition of "normal" doesn't apply anymore.  Heydt will share his newest YA non-fiction manuscript, Gray Matters.  This handbook to the teenage brain provides teens with the latest research and practical strategies to build their brainpower through intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships.

“It will be an opportunity like none other,” says Heydt.  “You have less than two minutes with an agent or publisher through a query letter.  The chance to pick the brain of an agent or publishing executive’s for hours is rare in this business.  I won’t waste a moment.”

Lucky Mia is a contemporary young adult novel for which Schmidt is seeking publication.  To read more about Schmidt and her work, please visit: www.tiffanyschmidt.net

Gray Matters is Heydt’s third completed work.  His first novel, O.Y.L., was released in October 2008, and his second, Mice Don’t Taste Like Chicken, is slated for release in summer 2010. To read more about Heydt and his works, please visit: www.scotthbooks.com, http://scotthbooks.blogspot.com, or www.micedonttastelikechicken.com.