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Lewiston NY, The United States
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KEVIN SYLVESTER is an award winning illustrator, writer and broadcaster.

His new sci-fi series MiNRs is now out from Simon and Schuster. MINRs was named a 2017 Honour Red Maple and Manitoba Reader's Honour book and a 2015 CLA Honour Book. MINRs2 is out. MINRs3 will be released in 2018.

His series The Neil Flambé Capers is already a bestseller and critical success. Students across Ontario picked 'Neil Flambé and the Marco Polo Murders' as the Silver Birch winner for fiction in 2011!

There are 6 books in the series so far, Neil Flambé and the Duel in the Desert is the latest.

Super-chef Gordon Ramsay calls the series “Good Fun”.

Kevin also does picture books - "Super-Duper Monster Viewer" is out from Groundwood. GREAT (with the Gretzky family) i ...more

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Was it a crazy amount of research for MINRS? Or did you already have a strong background in science?
Kevin Sylvester Sorry it's taken me so long to see this. I've had a lifelong love for science, spending huge amount of each summer at the Air and Space Museum in DC f…moreSorry it's taken me so long to see this. I've had a lifelong love for science, spending huge amount of each summer at the Air and Space Museum in DC for example. So the book is more an assemblage of bits and pieces I've picked up over the intervening 40 years.

I am also interested in how mining works here on earth and worried about whether some of those same practises will continue in space.

Of course, while writing the first draft I would constantly try to check out what NASA (for example) has planned for space travel, tear-forming, and so on.(less)
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What made you want to write the Minrs Series?
Kevin Sylvester I wondered what we would be like, as humans, if we went to space. One the one hand, we would really have to pull together to achieve space travel. On …moreI wondered what we would be like, as humans, if we went to space. One the one hand, we would really have to pull together to achieve space travel. On the other hand, we can be incredibly horrible to each other when we are fighting over resources. And when an author has a question, they answer it by diving in through fiction (or, for me and others, non-fiction from time to time)(less)
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NaNoWriMo advice (and useful for other MOs too)

I realize NaNoWriMo is well underway, but I always have students (and adults) ask me for writing advice.

I love giving any advice I can - and the two Golden Rules are... READ and WRITE (even if it stinks... because it always stinks for a while.)

But I also thought it might be useful to collect my various in print musings on this question here.

So.... here are some articles, interviews, etc. in which Read more of this blog post »
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“No matter how successful and rich you become, you will not be happy.”
― Kevin Sylvester, Neil Flambé and the Aztec Abduction
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Ah. I see we are now into the second movement of the Nakamura Suite in G-Minor!”
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“Are you still taking orders for me-shirts?"
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