When They Throw a Parade for Your Middle Grade Novel

That title to this piece is admittedly a touch misleading. It should probably read, “When Your Novel Gets Feted Alongside an Annual Heritage Day Festival”, but can you argue that that’s more kicky? Nah. If clickbait is the name of the game then I shall bait with only the finest of clicks.

To preface this, it’s important to understand that my first middle grade novel Long Road to the Circus originally came out at a less than entirely opportune time. By the fall of 2021, the lockdowns of t...