By Linda Redding

Here is some news about two authors that were featured in “Lunch with an Author” articles in earlier issues of the MSLA Forum.

Maryellen Maguire-Eisen, the executive director of the Children’s Melanoma Foundation, received the prestigious American Academy of Dermatology Gold Triangle Award for the books Pretty Prom and Lake Vacation. Both books she authored with Mary Mills Barrow, co-founder of Coolibar. Barrow and Maguire-Eisen wrote the two books to empower teens and adolescents with reliable dermatological information about the dangers of overexposure to ultraviolet radiation. The award is presented each year by the American Dermatology Association.   Visit the Children’s Melanoma Foundation website for more information. http://www.melanomaprevention.org/

Barbara Larmon Failing has moved to Ketchikan, Alaska.  She is launching an exciting interactive teen summer reading project Blog Book 2009.  On June 1, 2009, she will publish her teen novel, Loulane Lambert's Lists for Life on its own blog. The book is written as a journal, so each day (for about 2 months), she'll post a portion of the book as she journeys from Cape Cod to Alaska. Teens can interact with the book with their comments.

Several years ago, she was the recipient of an award by the Plymouth County Education Association for her “Raising Readers” Family Author Night presentation in Kingston.

Linda Redding is Library Teacher at Silver Lake Regional High School