Member Spotlight: Carly Ciarrocchi

Meet Carly! Her journey in children’s television began in 2012 when she was hired as a host and writer for Sprout’s Sunny Side Up, a live morning show for preschoolers. She created original interstitial content every week for five years - it was a fast-paced, 360० immersion into kids’ media. And right now, you can …

Member Spotlight: Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovic

Meet Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, an author who talks to children through her writing and books. Olugbemisola is the author of 8th Grade Superzero, which was named a Notable Book for a Global Society and a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People. She also writes nonfiction for young people, including Above and Beyond: NASA’s Journey …

Member Spotlight: Monique Hall

Our member spotlight features Monique Hall, who is a children's media writer. Read all about her here...

CMA is Publishing a Book! Meeting the Authors (Part 2)

Remember that book CMA wrote, edited, published, AND partied over? Well not only can you buy the whole thing at Amazon: you can check out Part 2 of our Q&A with the 19 people who wrote it. In case you're still not sure how a book with that many authors gets written in the first place (Part 1 of …

CMA is Publishing a Book! Wrapping up the Writers Group and Meeting the Authors (Part 1)

Remember that book CMA started writing (and editing) a year ago that we kept promising to update you on? Well, it's almost here! For starters, we have a cover (thanks to that contest you entered)! And a title! Here it is: We're changing "Diary" to "Journal" but still! Cover! Title! Better still, we have input from the writers themselves. …