Rochelle Melander
Rochelle Melander is a professional certified coach, artist educator, and the author of many books for adults, including Write-A-Thon: Write Your Book in 26 Days (and Live to Tell About It) (Writer’s Digest Books) and her latest book Build a Book: Designing a Nonfiction Book That Wows Readers (Dream Keepers Press). Rochelle’s debut book for children, Mightier Than the Sword: Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries Who Changed the World Through Writing (Beaming Books, 2021) won the 2021 Cybils Award for Middle Grade Nonfiction and the Council for Wisconsin Writers Tofte/Wright Children’s Literary Award.
Awards / Honors
- 2021 Cybils Award for Middle Grade Nonfiction – Mightier Than the Sword
- 2021 Indie Book Awards Finalist Children’s Nonfiction – Mightier Than the Sword
- 2021 Council for Wisconsin Writers Tofte/Wright Children’s Literary Award – Mightier Than the Sword
- 2011 Foreword INDIES Finalist – Write-A-Thon
