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August 12, 2024
August 2024 book giveaway: Win 1 of 4 signed copies of All of a Sudden and Forever
One of my least well-known nonfiction books is also one that's closest to my heart. All of a Sudden and Forever: Help and Healing After the Oklahoma City Bombing (illustrated by Nicole Xu and published by Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing) was based in part on my interviews with survivors, first responders, and family members of victims. [...]
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August 11, 2024
Coming from me in 2025: We Match!
I've had a picture book manuscript called We Match! in the works since early 2012. (This is not a typo.) But it was meeting illustrator Sharon Glick in late 2021 when I was in Bozeman, Montana, for a children’s book festival that finally put this story on the path that will bring it to bookstores [...]
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August 4, 2024
This One’s Dedicated to… Episode 55 & giveaway: Wintergarden, by Janet Fox
Welcome to the 55th episode of This One's Dedicated to..., in which Jennifer Ziegler and I share our quick conversation with author Janet Fox about the dedication she wrote for her picture book Wintergarden, illustrated by Jasu Hu (Neal Porter Books/Holiday House, 2023). Wintergarden is just one of the titles included in the August 2024 [...]
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July 31, 2024
Dollar-for-dollar grant funding available for my Texas author visits in winter and spring 2025
As a Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) Texas Touring Roster artist, I have some timely info that might be of value to you or a school, library, or nonprofit organization you know: There's a November 1 deadline for applying for Arts Respond Performance Support grant funding for an author visit from me in winter [...]
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July 29, 2024
This One’s Dedicated to… Episode 54 & giveaway: Manatee Summer, by Evan Griffith
Welcome to the 54th episode of This One's Dedicated to..., in which Jennifer Ziegler and I share our quick conversation with author Evan Griffith about the dedication he wrote for his middle grade novel Manatee Summer (Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins, 2022). Manatee Summer is just one of the titles included in the August 2024 book giveaway [...]
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July 28, 2024
At long last, royalties for breakfast
A meal worth waiting 8 years for. Payday has arrived! For years now, I've been watching one of my picture books (bought by the publisher in 2014 and published in 2016) sell a few copies here and a few copies there as I wondered whether it would ever earn out. "Earning out," for [...]
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July 10, 2024
“My students have a renewed excitement about writing” and other feedback about my recent author visits
Introducing myself to an audience of fourth and fifth graders in December 2023. Photo by Meredith Wallace. My thoughts on surveys are, let's say, inconsistent. I ignore most of the ones that I receive ("How satisfied are you with the volume of email from us, Chris?"), but I do love sending them out [...]
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July 1, 2024
15th anniversary giveaway of The Day-Glo Brothers
At my launch party for The Day-Glo Brothers at BookPeople in Austin on July 11, 2009. Photographer unknown but much appreciated! Happy anniversary to me! Fifteen years ago today — on July 1, 2009 — I became a published author with the official arrival of my debut picture book, The Day-Glo Brothers: The [...]
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June 30, 2024
Glitter Everywhere! is a Crystal Kite winner!
What award befits a nonfiction picture book about glitter? How about something crystal? I'm happy to share that my most recent book, Glitter Everywhere! Where It Came From, Where It’s Found & Where It’s Going (illustrated by Chaaya Prabhat and published by Charlesbridge), is a 2024 winner of the Crystal Kite Award for the Texas/Oklahoma [...]
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June 19, 2024
I’m pleased to introduce Authors for Parent & Family Engagement!
Say hello to Authors for Parent & Family Engagement (APFE)! We're a unique collective of Central Texas authors who offer special family-focused presentations for Literacy Night events at Title I campuses, in addition to our regular school visits. For more information about our lively, interactive, and family-focused events, visit https://www.pfeauthors.com. In our careers as authors, [...]
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