More from Cheryl
News & Announcements
The Christmas Owl
An endearing Christmas tale published in the Mocking Owl Roost Blog, Christmas 2025 Issue.
Creative Consultant
Working with hundreds of emerging authors led Cheryl to develop the Global Plotting System Analysis (GPSA), a proprietary platform for developing a project, characters, and story. She’s pleased now to include GPSA in all her creative consulting services. From initial concept to final submission, including queries, synopses, and comps.
While she works with and loves all genres, her areas of particular interest are kidlit, mystery and crime fiction, and speculative fiction.
Podcasts, Classes & Books
PODCASTS
- GREAT READS FROM GREAT PLACES: FITTING IN
- SO YOU WANNA WRITE A CHILDREN’S BOOK WITH VICTORIA J. COE AND CHERYL LAWTON MALONE
- THE SECRET SAUCE TO WRITING & PUBLISHING A CHILDREN’S BOOK WITH VICTORIA COE & CHERYL LAWTON MALONE
- COACHING KIDLIT: KIDLIT 101 WITH GUESTS CHERYL MALONE AND VICTORIA J. COE
CLASSES
BOOKS
Writing Kidlit 101: A Self-Guided Course – A 10-session, self-guided course that will help you learn the craft of writing fiction for children and young adults – aka kidlit.
Writing Kidlit 102: Your First Draft – This book will help wrangle that story out of your heart and onto the page. On your terms. In your time. In a way that sets you up for success.
Speaking Engagements
Cheryl is always delighted to present virtually and in person at schools, libraries, book clubs, bookstores, and museums.
Mystery Fiction by Cheryl Lawton Malone
In addition to writing kidlit, Cheryl writes mystery short stories and novels under the pen name C.L. Malone. Her first short story was published in Crime Spell’s Snakeberry: Best New England Crime Stories 2025. Her second and third will appear in, Calgary 2026 Bouchercon Anthology, and Level Short’s Time Before Our Crime, respectively.
C.L. is a member of Sisters in Crime, the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and Mystery Writers of America.
