unique and unusual

After the keynote address, we authors were split into panels. The tweens got to choose which panels to attend...and what questions to ask us! Here's my panel: "Dare to Debut," with Augusta Scattergood, Deron Hicks, Lynne Kelly, and me. We spent the next three hours answering questions like "What's your favorite candy?" and "What do you do when you get stuck?" (It turns out the answer to both of those is "chocolate.")

A Post in Pictures: Tweens Read Book Festival, Houston, TX

Published by on October 22, 2012 | 8 Responses

This past weekend, I got the chance to participate in a super fun event dedicated to books for kids: the Tweens Read Book Festival in Houston, TX. Twenty-one authors, hundreds of middle grade readers, personalized cupcakes, hand-made knitted water bottle cozies, 85 degrees weather (it was a wet and coooold 45 degrees when I left Wisconsin)—well, let’s just say, as… Read more →

Unique and Unusual

Published by on August 26, 2011 | Leave a response

When I walk with my kids, we try to spy one “unique and unusual” thing. It gets us talking as we imagine the story behind it. Sometimes it’s something as simple as a bird feather, sometimes it’s something funny. Yesterday’s was a package of brand-new underwear in the middle of the street. Hmmm . . .