News
June 2010: Starred review in School Library Journal
May 2010: Experience One Million Butterflies launches as part of K.S.R. Kingworth’s effort to support global education for girls, and the Half the Sky Movement. Kingworth also begins an online project with an after-school in Namibia along with her husband’s university womens cross country team.

Make as many handmade butterflies as you can!
April 2010: Secret Speakers hits the #1 spot on Goodreads’ Listopia! list, Predict Oprah’s Next Book Club Pick, ahead of Kathryn Stockett’s, The Help. Pretty good for a crossover / young adult fantasy novel, we must say!
April 6, 2010: Secret Speakers is published. Rawle & Windsor Publishing. Trade Paperback: 978-0-9801303-5-5. Audiobook: 978-0-9801303-0-0.

January 27, 2009: Textnovel Announces Secret Speakers as Winner of it’s 2008 Reader’s Choice Award as a serialized, online novel. 

Secret Speakers wins Textnovel's Reader's Choice Award as an online, serialized novel
2009: Karey Shane/K.S.R. Kingworth on the most-viewed profile page of all time at Goodreads.com
June, 2009: New York, Audio Publishers Association
Simon Vance, who performed Secret Speakers and the Search for Selador’s Gate, is given AudioFile Magazine Golden Voice status, which is like a hall of fame for narrators. He also wins yet again another Audie, this time in the Classics category for his reading of Great Expectations.
June, 2008: American Library Association Convention. Simon Vance is awarded Booklist’s Voice of Choice award.

Simon Vance named Booklist's Voice of Choice
November 8, 2008: At the forefront of the changes taking place in the publishing world thanks to social media, Kingworth launches the innovative Read & Rate It event on Goodreads.com where future readers of Secret Speakers can read the manuscript online, provide feedback, and fill out polls. Over 700 people joined on Goodreads and Facebook. 82% of early readers voted Secret Speakers as good as or better than Twilight in terms of likeability, not genre, and 68% voted it as good as or better than Harry Potter using the same criteria.

One of the first-ever, socially driven events for a book in manuscript form.




