Antoinette’s Fish is a young adult novel, currently in its finishing stages and coming to a bookstore near you. At least we hope it will be. It is the story of Annie Velter, a twelve year old adventurer who goes all the way to Africa, by herself, to help her Grandmother (Antoinette) save the fish of Lake Tanganyika.
This website has been created to talk about the book and its progress, share sample chapters, give background information about the many interesting things discussed in the book (like tropical fish, scuba diving, Tanzanian hip-hop and Moroccan food), provide a link to interesting fish and zoological happenings in the world, and simply talk about writing.
Keep visiting! There are regular blog updates of all kinds, and a comic book serial that is added to every Sunday night.
Annie Velter is a seventh grader who lives in Portland, Maine. She is obsessed with going to Tanzania to visit her Grandmother, Dr. Antoinette Beauregard, who works in Lake Tanganyika as an ichthyologist. That means she studies fish, particularly the hundreds of cichlid species who only live in Lake Tanganyika, one of the oldest and deepest lakes in the world. When she’s not preparing for her big trip to Africa by studying Swahili, African pop music, and of course, fish, Annie contributes to AnnieVelter.com whenever she can. After all, the site is named after her!
Gudrun Cram-Drach is a writer and artist who resides in Paris, France. She studied storytelling for much of her life, including the fields of illustration and animation, as well as the written word. She has read her poetry at the West Hollywood Book Fair, writes a bi-weekly column called Secret Life of a Nerd Girl for fierceandnerdy.com, and has been to many animation festivals and conferences with her animated films. Antoinette’s Fish is her second novel, and her first one for kids, and she feels pretty good about it.
