CYNTHIA T. TONEY

 

Cynthia writes for preteens and teens because she wants them to know how wonderful, powerful, and valuable God made them. Her novels employ hope and humor to address some of the serious issues young people encounter. She is the author of the Bird Face contemporary series, including 8 Notes to a Nobody, 10 Steps to Girlfriend Status, 6 Dates to Disaster, and 3 Things to Forget. The first volume, in its original title of Bird Face, won a Moonbeam Children’s Book Award.

 

Her first coming-of-age historical, The Other Side of Freedom, received numerous literary awards:   

Catholic Press Association (CPA) Book Awards for Children's Books, Third Place (2018), Children's Literary Classics Book Awards: Gold Winner for Upper Middle Grade in both General and Historical Fiction (2018), 

Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards: First Place for Outstanding Fiction, Children/Juvenile and Second Place for Fiction Book of the Year (2018), Next Generation Indie Book Awards: First Place for Children's/Juvenile Fiction and Grand Prize for Fiction (2018), Reader's Favorite Gold Medal for Children's/Pre-teen Coming-of-age (2018), and Purple Dragonfly Award First Place in e-books Historical Fiction (2019). 

 

Cynthia has contributed short stories to the award-winning Catholic Teen Books anthologies Secrets: Visible & Invisible, Gifts: Visible & Invisible, and Ashes: Visible & Invisible. Cynthia has been a member of Catholic Writers Guild since she first began to write fiction for teens. She has a passion for rescuing dogs and lives with her husband and several canines in the friendly South.