Blog tour continues with this review at Happily Ever Elephants (love the blogger’s kids with the book, don’t you?) The review talks about the way the book encourages kids to walk in another person’s shoes. It’s so hard! But, one thing I make clear in my presentation on the book, is that it’s not just […]
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Blog Tour Day 2: The Readathon
The countdown to publication continues with this blog post from The Readathon! The reviewer mentions that my book reminded her of the book, “The Hundred Dresses” by Eleanor Estes because of its storyline about children being judgmental and its focus on issues of economic class. It’s not the first time I’ve heard this comparison. The […]
Blog Tour Day 1: Lost in Storyland
It’s that frenzied pre-launch time when I’m having anxiety dreams about all my upcoming events for my debut book. I haven’t had the “forgot my locker combination” one yet. Maybe tonight! Last night was a dream in which a bus was coming to pick me and my kids up after a trip, and all our […]
Why Pre-order?
Two months from today…my first book comes out! It still seems like just a wonderful dream. I’m busy planning my book launch, to be held at my local library on August 14 (more information coming soon). In the meantime, I wanted to take a moment to encourage anyone who plans to buy the book to […]
It’s a real book!
I recently opened my mail to find my first copy of “Adrian Simcox Does NOT Have a Horse!” This definitely wasn’t the first time I’ve seen the book. I’ve been looking at Corinna Luyken’s wonderful art at various points in her illustration process, and I’ve seen the book in electronic form and then a couple […]
So Much Book Fun!
Friends, Apologies for not blogging while my new website was built (shout-out to the super talented Ilsa Brink for creating this site for me!). Over the past few months, the art for my book was completed (a HUGE shout-out to the amazing Corinna Luyken). The book is now being printed and we are gearing up […]
Obligatory Contemplative Post-Book-Sale Blog Post
My debut picture book, “Adrian Simcox Does Not Have a Horse,” sold to Penguin/Dial Books for Young Readers last week. There’s a period at the end of that sentence, though there should probably be 25 exclamation points. But that was last week, and like all human creatures, I’ve adapted to this incredible good news and […]
What To Do When Your Book Is On Submission
My picture book is on submission! What does that mean? Well, this is the phase when you’ve signed with a super duper agent (see previous post), you’ve made any edits to your manuscript that the agent suggests and then the agent submits your book to a list of editors at various publishing houses who he […]