Carolyn Marsden’s debut novel for young readers, The Gold-Threaded Dress (Candlewick, 2002), received enormous critical acclaim and was named a Booklist Top Ten Youth First Novel and a Booklist Editors’ Choice. She is also the author of Silk Umbrellas (Candlewick, 2004), Moon Runner (Candlewick, 2005), The Quail Club (Candlewick, 2006), The Jade Dragon (Candlewick, 2006), When Heaven Fell (Candlewick, 2007), Bird Springs (Viking, 2007), The Buddha’s Diamonds (Candlewick, 2008) which was an SCIBA Finalist, Sawhira (Candlewick, 2009), Starfields (Candlewick, 2011) and her upcoming next, The White Zone (Lerner, 2011).
Carolyn has an MFA in Writing for Children from Vermont College. She lives in La Jolla, California.

Website: http://www.carolynmarsden.com/
Twitter: carolynemarsden

• carolynemarsden: MEXICO, JUPITER, SUBMARINE: HOW I BECAME A WRITER is now available for the Kindle Fire.
• carolynemarsden: http://t.co/pVIYMeUL Here's the link for my new book trailer for STARFIELDS. The novel is in hardback, e-book, CD, and MP3 formats.
• carolynemarsden: My novel for children, MAMA HAD TO WORK ON CHRISTMAS, will be released tomorrow as an e-book.
• carolynemarsden: MEXICO, JUPITER, SUBMARINE: HOW I BECAME A WRITER is now available from I-Books. Childhood memoir done in collage.

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