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Kevin Sylvester

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Born

Lewiston NY, The United States

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http://www.kevinsylvesterbooks.com

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Children's Books, Literature & Fiction, Children's

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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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Average rating: 4.06 · 6,413 ratings · 912 reviews · 48 distinct works • Similar authors

	MiNRS 3.95 avg rating — 1,277 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Neil Flambé and the Marco Polo Murders (The Neil Flambé Capers, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 1,104 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Neil Flambé and the Aztec Abduction (The Neil Flambé Capers #2) 4.08 avg rating — 563 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apartment 713 4.20 avg rating — 491 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Neil Flambé and the Crusader's Curse (The Neil Flambé Capers #3) 4.08 avg rating — 465 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MiNRS 2 4.17 avg rating — 423 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Neil Flambé and the Tokyo Treasure (The Neil Flambé Capers #4) 4.27 avg rating — 405 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MiNRS 3 4.25 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Neil Flambé and the Bard's Banquet (The Neil Flambé Capers #5) 4.03 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Neil Flambé and the Duel in the Desert (Neil Flambé Capers, #6 4.10 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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Series by Kevin Sylvester

The Neil Flambé Capers (6 books)
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MiNRS (3 books)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,916 ratings

Hockey Super Six (3 books)
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3.85 avg rating — 54 ratings

Quotes by Kevin Sylvester (?)

“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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“Are you still taking orders for me-shirts?"
"I'll take one 'shoot me now' and one 'I'm with useless'.”
― Kevin Sylvester, Neil Flambé and the Crusader's Curse

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“WHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?

Ah. I see we are now into the second movement of the Nakamura Suite in G-Minor!”
― Kevin Sylvester, Neil Flambé and the Aztec Abduction

tags: humour, joke, larry

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Kevin’s Quotes

“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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“Are you still taking orders for me-shirts?"
"I'll take one 'shoot me now' and one 'I'm with useless'.”
― Kevin Sylvester, Neil Flambé and the Crusader's Curse

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