Small Reads for Brighters Days
Thank you to everyone who came to my book party yesterday to celebrate the launch of Stampede! Poems to Celebrate the Wild Side of School. I can’t tell you how relieved I was to see you there. I had this vague, unsettling image in mind of Mary Richards (main character of the Mary Tyler Moore […]
I’ll be holding an online launch party for Stampede! Poems to Celebrate the Wild Side of School in a couple of weeks on April 6. I hope you’ll stop by stampede.ning.com and say hi, because I’ll feel like a fool hovering at the online venue all day if you don’t! And in case you’re wondering […]
Last night, I was working on materials for an online class I’m teaching, and my husband walked in. "I opened a package for you by mistake," he said. He gets tons of packages every day, so when UPS, FedEx, DSL, et al. come calling, the packages usually get put in a pile for Randy without […]
Last week while I was on retreat, I discovered my book cover is up on the Clarion site and Amazon. Yea! I had seen the image for it, but not with the text and design completed. I love it!
MARKETING MONDAYSI am not a marketing/promotion type person. If I had to sell things for a living, I would surely be sleeping under an overpass somewhere. But, as we’re all too aware, making a career as a writer requires you to support your work by promoting it. And with my first trade poetry picture […]
I am so excited! Friday, I received f&gs for my poetry picture book coming out next spring with Clarion: STAMPEDE: POEMS ABOUT THE WILD SIDE OF SCHOOL. (An f&g, by the way, is a folded and gathered signature. It means it’s a set of the pages for my picture book, with illustrations, but the pages are just folded…they’re […]
On Monday, I got an envelope from Clarion. I thought it was a poetry book, since I’m on the CYBILS nominating panel. But it was a copyedited manuscript of my poetry picture book, STAMPEDE! POEMS TO CELEBRATE THE WILD SIDE OF SCHOOL. My lovely editor, Jennifer Wingertzahn, had gone through with blue pencil (I think […]
