6/26/2023 0 Comments We planted a tree by diane muldrow![]() ![]() “My first original book…was The Happy Book, a novelty book published by Scholastic’s Cartwheel Books, where I was working at the time…Being steeped in the industry was definitely a big factor in my writing taking off.” Muldrow’s big break came about ten years into her editing career. In 1999, Muldrow moved back to Golden Books as an editor. At that time, she and another Golden Books editor, Bonnie Bader, developed a proposal for a series about teenage girls who like to cook. ![]() Muldrow and Bader planned to write the series together unfortunately, Golden Books declared bankruptcy and Bader left for Grosset & Dunlap. Bader successfully pitched the cooking series to her new employer with Muldrow as the sole author, and the co-author team became an author-editor team. “It was probably the most challenging thing I’ve ever done,” Muldrow says about writing the Dish series. On September 11, 2001, the day terrorists attacked New York City and Washington, D.C., Muldrow was supposed to begin work on her four-book series on September 12, Bader called to make sure she was hard at work. ![]() ![]() “It helped me focus,” Muldrow says, “I couldn’t dwell on things. ![]()
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