2016 Best Book Awards

I am super excited to announce that both MIND YOUR MONSTERS and HYPNOSIS HARRY were honored in the "Children's Picture Book: Hardcover Fiction" category of the 2016 Best Book Awards.

That's right. Both books. Two. Not one. Two. This is SO a donuts-all-day kind of celebration. 

Thank you to the Best Book Awards judges, and congratulations to my fellow winners!

#hypnosisharry
#mindyourmonsters
#bestbookawards
#picturebookawards

For more information, please visit: 

http://www.bestbookawards.com/2016awardpressrelease.html

St. Paul's School

If you are ever want to have your mind blown, go back to your alma matter as a grown up for a book fair and author visit. It was a such an awesome, amazing, occasionally teary-eyed, experience. 

Ya'll this is the third grade teacher who worked at St. Paul's when I went there! And he remembered me! and he laughed at all my jokes during my presentations! He is now my favorite person EVER.

 

See that pile-up of super cool kids? I'm in there somewhere signing bookmarks.

Barnes and Noble partnered with St. Paul's for this book fair and - man!- was it groovy. Thank you so SO much for having me join in all the hippie dippy fun. 

#hypnosisharry

#mindyourmonsters

#bookfair

#barnesandnoble

#GirlScoutsRule

I had the pleasure of helping these amazing Girl Scouts earn their scribe badge. Thanks for having me! #girlscoutsrule#mindyourmonsters #hypnosisharry #authorvisit

Windmill Point Elementary

Thank you for inviting me to visit your school Windmill Point Elementary! I had a total blast presenting Brewing Up A Book, and Books Are Monster Fun, to your students. You guys are awesome to work with and I hope the kids (all 585 of them - wowza!) enjoyed it as much as I did.:) I can't wait to come back next year.

#hypnosisharry
#mindyourmonsters
#authorvisit

My job is amazing

Besides actually writing, what do children's authors do all day? Well, planning how to build a five foot tall, plywood lobster is part of it...

#LucyLovesSherman #coming2017 #lobsterlover

And now, coming to the stage...

Ya'll... I can't even... I have so many AHHHHMAZING events coming up, from school visits to charity events. So please forgve my blog-silence. I've been neck deep in work, crafting power points (with lots of cat and dog pictures from the internet, obviously) and readying crafts. Basically it's presentation-prep-madness over here. For example, I now I have enough bookmarks to wallpaper a small house.

Literally FABULOUS!

I want to give a massive shout out to Lynne Marie, host of the amazing kidlit website www.literallylynnemarie.com. I guest posted on the site today about book launch parties. Thank you for having me Lynne !

You can view the post here: http://literallylynnemarie.blogspot.com/2016/08/its-party-time-launch-party-time-that.html

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