Cheryl Lawton Malone
Creative Consultant
Creative Consultant
Selling a work today requires that your audience love your story, not just like your manuscript. Falling in love takes a ton of hard work, which means starting with a great story idea, understanding today’s marketplace, piling on the heart, stakes, and conflict, honing your craft, writing a good plot, and…
Author
Cheryl is a freelance writer, poet, and award-winning author of children’s literature. 2015’s DARIO AND THE WHALE is a Shelf Awareness Best Children’s Book of 2016, a Cooperative Children’s Book Center Winner for 2017, a Book Best Debut Picture Books of 2016, and a 2018 Mass Book Awards Must Read.
Books by Cheryl Lawton Malone
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So You Wanna Write A Children’s Book With Victoria J. Coe And Cheryl Lawton Malone
The Secret Sauce To Writing & Publishing A Children’s Book With Victoria Coe & Cheryl Lawton Malone
Coaching Kidlit: Kidlit 101 With Guests Cheryl Malone And Victoria J. Coe
Kidlit 101 With Victoria J. Coe & Cheryl Lawton Malone
Being Bad: Creating Antagonists Your Readers Will Love To Hate
Great Reads from Great Places
The Massachusetts Center for the Book recently selected DARIO AND THE WHALE for the 2021 Library of Congress’ Great Reads from Great Places program, a list of books representing American literary heritage. Learn more.
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About Cheryl
After a 25-year career in corporate and international law, I decided to become a professional writer. I obtained my MFA at Lesley University in 2010, and started teaching at Lesley as an adjunct professor and at Grub Street, a nonprofit writer’s organization in Boston, MA. My first children’s picture book, DARIO AND THE WHALE, was published by Albert Whitman, 2016; it’s in its 4rth printing. My second picture book, ELEPHANTS WALK TOGETHER was also published by Albert Whitman, 2017. A few years ago, I had the great fortune to add a third career–professional dog trainer when I joined the team at All About My Dog. Currently, I work with pet therapy teams and volunteer in schools, libraries and children’s hospitals. My husband and I live in Massachusetts with our two amazing Irish wheaten terriers.