Hi everyone.... Welcome to my website. I’m glad you came to visit, and hope you enjoy reading my books as much as I enjoying writing them. Here’s my official bio...
Allia Zobel Nolan is an internationally published, award-winning author specializing in children’s trade and religious books and adult humorous books. She has written over 150 titles, and has over 2 ½ million books in print. For the past nine years, Ms. Zobel Nolan worked for Reader’s Digest Children’s Books as a Senior Editor. She became a free-agent as of April 07, and is now at work on several religious children’s books.
New titles pubbing in 2010 include: My Dreamy, Fishy, Happy Bible Storybook, from Zondervan, and Cat Confessions: A "Kitty-Come-Clean" Tell All Book and Moses' Memory Book from Harvest House. Look for The Lord's Prayer for Little Ones and three other children's Bible books in 2011
Ms. Zobel Nolan has been published by Workman, Andrews & McMeel, Reader’s Digest Children’s Publishing, Barnes & Noble, Adams Media, Broadman & Holman, Zondervan, Cook, Scholastic (Veggie Tales), Concordia, Kregel, Standard Publishing, and Tommy Nelson. She has won several book awards, among them, the 2005 Mom’s Choice Award for the Most Outstanding Children’s Book for Preschoolers, an iParenting Award for Greatest Product of 2005, and the 2007 Teacher’s Choice Award. She has won countless awards for her writing, including:
TOYS WIN TOP AWARDS FROM CREATIVE CHILD
Two toys I developed for W.J. Fantasy Toy Company, in Connecticut, have received high honors in the 2008 Creative Child Magazine Toy Awards.
My First Words, Slide n’ See Blocks, which teaches letters and words, has received the Creative Toy Award Seal of Excellence. And Fairy Tale Blocks, a Touch-and-Feel Block Set, which teaches simple fairytales, as well as recognition of tactile materials, received the 2008 Top Choice Award.
The Creative Child Magazine's Toy Awards Program is unique in that all products submitted are reviewed by a panel of evaluators comprised of moms, music educators and early education professionals, the very people who purchase them. The awards recognize play products that meet the publication’s high standards for nurturing creativity, safety, design, durability and social responsibility.
VEGGIE TALES WINS 2008 OUTSTANDING PRODUCTS AWARD Two of the titles I wrote for Scholastic, FairandSquaresville and One Good Knight, were among the books in the VeggieTales™ Values to Grow By Gift of the Month Club Series, which won the 2008 Outstanding Products Winner from iParenting Media Awards®
1997 First Place, Editorial Page, New England Press Association
1997 Best Newspaper Column - Matrix Award, Fairfield County Women In Communications Awards
1994 Best Four -Color Newsletter, First Place by both National Federation of Press Women Communications Awards and Connecticut Press Club Communications
Feature Story in Specialized Publication, Third Place, Connecticut Press Club Communications
1993 Best Newsletter, Matrix Award, Fairfield County Chapter Women In Communications, Inc.
Best Humor Book First Place, Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest
Best Four-Color Newsletter, First Place, Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest
Corporate Newsletters, Second Place, Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest
Best Four-Color Newsletter, First Place, National Federation of Press Women
Humor Book, Second Place, National Federation of Press Women
1991 Best Four-Color Newsletter, Matrix Award, Fairfield Women In Communications, Inc.
1990 Best Advertisements in Color Newsletter, First Place, National Federation of Press Women Communications Awards
Editing Color Publication, First Place, National Federation of Press Women Communications Communications Awards
Clarion Award, National Women In Communications, Inc. (back-to-back awards, won in 1989)
Best Four-Color Business Newsletter, National Women In Communications,
Best Color Advertisements, First Place, Connecticut Press Club Communications Awards
Best Specialized Magazine, First Place, Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest
Newsletters, Second Place, Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest
Humor Articles, Second Place, Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest
Interviews, Second Place, Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest
Ms. Zobel Nolan has appeared on numerous TV shows, including Good Day New York, CNN, the Bertice Berry Show, Fox 5 "Pet Department," CBS News, Saturday Morning Live, The Channel 2 Six O’clock News; Hard Copy, the Fairfield Exchange, Westchester Channel 12, Channel 8 News New Haven, Education Notebook, and other nationally-syndicated television shows, in addition to interviews on radio, and extensive media coverage in local and national press.
Ms. Zobel Nolan is a member of the Cat Writer’s Association and Connecticut Press Club.
She lives in Connecticut, with her husband, Desmond, and their three cats, Angela, Sinead, and McDuff.
She loves writing about God, cats, and for children.
You can contact Allia by sending an email to AlliaZobel@optonline.net
