Wendy admits there is little she enjoys more than a good book. "My house looks more like a library every day," she says. From the time she could first read, she’s devoured books. She’s never lost her love for children’s literature. She still collects it and reads it.

She’s also always loved to write. Her first book, Skunkie’s Baby Book was penned, actually it was crayoned, when she was five years old.  She’s been writing ever since. Her articles have appeared in magazines such as Focus on the Family, Discipleship Journal, CBA Marketplace, Guideposts and others.

In 1998 she began work on the Daughters of the Faith novels. Six books for Moody Publishers came from that series. She went on to write four Real TV books for teens, and Impressions in Clay, a nonfiction book.  Her upcoming projects include two nonfiction books for adults.

Wendy has won numerous awards for her writing, including:

• Writer of the Year, Mount Hermon Christian Writer’s Conference in 1999.

• 1999 Children’s Literature Prize, Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest — the contest which honors the worst possible opening line in a novel. The contest is named after the prolific 19th century English novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, whose novel "Paul Clifford" began with the immortal words, "It was a dark and stormy night.". Wendy won in the Children’s Literature category with the following line:

“The greedy schoolbus crept through the streets devouring clumps of children until its belly groaned with surfeit, then lumbered back to the schoolhouse where it obligingly regurgitated its meal onto the grounds.”

© Wendy Lawton  2006-2008 All Rights Reserved. 

Site design and maintenance by PulsePoint Design