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April 23, 2017
Author Spotlight: Joanne O’Sullivan Talks About Between Two Skies
Today I’m shining the Author Spotlight on fellow Class of 2k17 member Joanne O’Sullivan and her debut novel BETWEEN TWO SKIES.
Title: BETWEEN TWO SKIES
Genre: YA
Age Range: 12-16
Launch Date: April 25, 2017
Please tell us a little bit about your book?
Most kids her age can’t wait to get out of tiny Bayou Perdu, a fishing town way, way down in Louisiana. But for sixteen-year-old Evangeline Riley it’s home. She has her best friends, Kendra and Danielle; her wise, beloved Mamere; and bac...
Author Spotlight: Joanne O’Sullivan
Today I’m shining the Author Spotlight on fellow Class of 2k17 member Joanne O’Sullivan and her debut novel BETWEEN TWO SKIES.
Title: BETWEEN TWO SKIES
Genre: YA
Age Range: 12-16
Launch Date: April 25, 2017
Please tell us a little bit about your book?
Most kids her age can’t wait to get out of tiny Bayou Perdu, a fishing town way, way down in Louisiana. But for sixteen-year-old Evangeline Riley it’s home. She has her best friends, Kendra and Danielle; her wise, beloved Mamere; and bac...
April 17, 2017
Author Spotlight: Allison Hymas Talks About Under Locker And Key
Today I’m
shining the Author Spotlight on Allison Hymas and her debut novel UNDER LOCKER AND KEY.
Title: Under Locker and Key
Genre: Middle Grade Crime/Mystery
Age Range: Ages 9-13
Launch Date: April 18, 2017
Please tell us a little bit about your book?
UNDER LOCKER AND KEY is about a 12-year-old “retrieval specialist” named Jeremy Wilderson who steals back things for the kids in his school. Since doing his job requires a certain amount of lying, cheating, con artistry, and straight-up burgla...
April 10, 2017
Goodreads Giveaway for The Tragically True Adventures of Kit Donovan
The Tragically True Adventures of Kit Donovan officially launches at the end of the month – which means, it’s time for a Goodreads Giveaway!
Goodreads is giving away 4 signed Advanced Reader Copies of THE TRAGICALLY TRUE ADVENTURES OF KIT DONOVAN.
All you have to do is head on over to Goodreads and enter.
Good luck!
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March 27, 2017
The Tragically True Adventures of Kit Donovan Book Trailer
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March 20, 2017
Surreal Moment No. 8
Surreal Moment – March 6, 2017
Klamath Falls, OR.
Karen Cushman blurbed my book!!
*Imagine me repeating that quietly over and over again – because that’s pretty much what I did when I got the email – for days.
Way back when I first signed my contract, my agent mentioned that she knew Karen and that she was going to send her an ARC when the time came. For months, I tried not to think about the fact that sometime in the future, my little book would be on Karen Cushman’s TBR pile.
It was just t...
March 13, 2017
2017 Debut Book Love – The Shadows We Know By Heart
Fellow Class of 2k17 Books member Jennifer Park’s incredible YA debut, THE SHADOWS WE KNOW BY HEART, releases today and it is quite simply the book you did not know you have been waiting for all of your life.
Leah Roberts’s life has never been the same since her brother died ten years ago. Her mother won’t stop drinking, her father can’t let go of his bitter anger, and Leah herself has a secret she’s told no one: Sasquatch are real, and she’s been watching a trio of them in the woods behind h...
March 6, 2017
Author Spotlight: Kristin Gray Talks About Vilonia Beebe Takes Charge
Today I’m
shining the Author Spotlight on Kristin Gray and her debut novel VILONIA BEEBE TAKES CHARGE.
Title: VILONIA BEEBE TAKES CHARGE
Genre: Contemporary Middle-Grade
Age Range: 8-12
Launch Date: March 7, 2017
Please tell us a little bit about your book?
Fourth grader Vilonia hasn’t lost her rain coat in the three weeks she’s had it and she’s brushed her teeth every night and she’s volunteered to be the Friday Library Helper. But all that hard work is worth it if it means she can get a...
February 27, 2017
Surreal Moment No. 7
Surreal Moment – January 21 and February 1, 2017
Atlanta, GA (ALA Midwinter Conference) and Klamath Falls, OR (My doorstep).
My book is a book! And it’s out in the world where real people I’ve never met can read it – and *gulp* review it!
Advanced Reader Copies were available at the Albert Whitman & Company’s booth at the American Library Association’s Mid Winter Conference in January.
And if seeing pictures of my book out in the wild wasn’t cool enough, a box of ARCs arrived on my do...
February 20, 2017
2017 Debut Book Love: The Ethan I Was Before
One of the things that’s been a little bit strange and a lot wonderful about getting to read books before they are published is getting to experience them before all the reviews (both the good and the bad) come out and try to shape your opinion. I got to read Ali Standish’s THE ETHAN I WAS BEFORE late last year and I got to read it with the same clean slate I read books like Bridge to Terabithia and The Summer of the Swans when I was a kid. Which means I read it the same way I read books bac...
