In 2009, Rosenberg got an agent – and that’s when she scored her first book deals. I did hit a point where I would prepare envelopes so that when a rejection came, I wouldn’t have to get over that whole psychic barrier before sending out another query.” “I didn’t count rejections because if I did, that probably would have thrown me into a depression. “It took a lot of ‘no’s’ before I got a ‘yes,’” Rosenberg says with a laugh. It was a frustrating process that lasted at least a decade. Rosenberg got a master’s degree in creative writing at Boston University in 2002 and returned to NC State as an adjunct professor in journalism for a year, all while submitting samples of her work to book publishers. It was a job she loved, but eventually the allure of make-believe storytelling was too great. Over the next four years, she honed her writing skills in the classroom and delved into journalism as a staff writer for Technician, going on to become its news editor.Īfter graduating in 1989, Rosenberg worked as a reporter for the Roanoke Times in Virginia. “But it just never occurred to me that it was something that I could turn into a career.” “That was ridiculous, because writing is the only thing I’ve ever been able to do,” she says.

The next book, a young adult novel called Dream Boyco-written with her friend Mary Crockett, comes out in July.ĭespite the praise of her earliest works, Rosenberg had no idea what to study when she came to NC State in 1985. Today, Rosenberg is a children’s writer, with three books already published and three more about to hit store shelves. Her relatives loved the tale, and they correctly forecasted Rosenberg’s future.

No one could get it off, and it remained there forever. He was at a Halloween party, and his mask shrunk while bobbing for apples. It started in the fifth grade, when Rosenberg wrote a story about how Randy the raccoon got his mask. Grown-ups always told young Madelyn Rosenberg that she should be an author.

Nanny X by Madelyn Rosenberg