Cheryl B. Klein
Cheryl B. Klein is the author of The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young Adults, and three children's picture books: Wings, illustrated by Tomie DePaola; Thunder Trucks, cowritten with Katy Beebe and illustrated by Mike Boldt; and A Year of Everyday Wonders, illustrated by Qin Leng. In 2011, she self-published Second Sight: An Editor's Talks on Writing, Revising, and Publishing Books for Children and Young Adults (now out of print). All her books draw extensively on her two decades of experience as an editor in children's and YA publishing. Among the books she has edited or co-edited are When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita, winner of the Stonewall Book Award; The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan by Sherry Thomas; Front Desk by Kelly Yang; The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book; the New York Times bestselling Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older; A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce, winner of the William C. Morris YA Debut Award; Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award for Teens; The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg, winner of the Stonewall Award for YA Fiction; The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb, winner of the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award; and The Snow Day by Komako Sakai, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book. Cheryl has edited translations from six different languages, and she also served as the US continuity editor on the last two books of the Harry Potter series. She presently works as the editorial director at Lee & Low Books.
Since 2005, Cheryl has maintained a website for writers at http://www.cherylklein.com. Follow her on social media at @chavelaque.
“A book is kind of like a good Horcrux, if we can imagine that -- a piece of the writer's soul, preserved in a physical object for all time, and changing the lives of all those who come in contact with it.”