Oklahoma author Stacy Nyikos makes “Dragon Wishes”
Award-Winning Bixby author Stacy A. Nyikos has released her first children’s author, ”Dragon Wishes” (Blooming Tree Press).
The book was inspired by a personal tragedy: What began as an exciting day of sledding one wintery day five years ago turned into crisis. Nyikos, watched helplessly as her daughters – at the time ages 2 and 4 – crashed into the back of a parked horse trailer.
“When they crashed into that trailer, my world came to a crashing halt,” Nyikos said in a news release.
Although her daughters survived, Nyikos’ life changed forever. The near-death of her children became a mountain of grief so large, she felt she could never get over it. It was writing that became her guide up the steep path to recovery.
Turning the experience on its head, she asked herself what would happen if a child lost both of her parents, how would she deal with such an overwhelming tragedy. A story was born, “Dragon Wishes.”
Nyikos will be promoting “Dragon Wishes” at several big events this month around the country:
- Nov. 15: California Library Association Conference Cultural Diversity Panel, San Jose, Calif.
- Nov. 17: California Library Association Conference Panel Discussion on Writing, San Jose.
- Nov. 21: National Conference for Teachers of English Panel Discussion on Writing for a New Generation, San Antonio, Texas.
Nyikos is the author of three children’s picture books, “Squirt” (Stonehorse 2005), “Shelby” (2006) and “Dizzy” (2007). Her books have won the Arizona Authors Literary Contest, Mom’s Choice Awards, and been chosen as a finalist in ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year.
She has spoken at numerous conferences and reading festivals, such as the St. Petersburg Reading Festival. She has also given more than 100 author presentations to children ages 4-16 on the writing process and the role of facts in fiction. For more information, got to www.stacyanyikos.com.
Here’s a description of “Dragon Wishes”:
Eleven-year-old Alex is searching. So is Shin Wa. They both need to find a path out of the darkness that surrounds them.
Shin Wa’s journey leads her to the Black Mountains in far northern China. There she discovers more than just the last surviving dragons. She finds a way to save mankind. It all lies in a single pearl of wisdom.
The gem is also the key to Alex’s own journey. It travels through the ages and into the hands of the struggling young girl and her sister. Alex struggles to unlock the pearl’s
secrets. Only they can lead her out of the darkness and into a new life.
“Dragon Wishes is about pearls of wisdom, dragons, soccer, Chinese dumplings,
migrating whales, ancestors, joining hands against adversity, reaching goals, fear, risk,
desire, death and surprise. Mostly, it’s about leaving home only to realize that home is
not a place but a circle of friends, in and strangers who are bound together by the light,
silvery web which unites us all in giving and caring.
-BAM
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