DOT’s Back!
I am very excited to share the news that the latest edition of my second novel, Dot to Dot, has just been published by Booktrope, a dynamic new publisher leading the pack in this brave new world of book choice, production and distribution.
As you may know, I’m a huge fan of trailblazers who aren’t afraid to try something new. When the Booktrope folks called, I knew I wanted to get on board. This new edition of Dot to Dot is everything I wanted it to be.
One of the most important aspects of being an author is to connect with readers. This blog is where you and I can connect directly with each other. I want to know what YOU think about Dot, the plucky young teen who loses her mother in a ghastly accident, and who then embarks on a quest for answers to those big and little questions we all ask ourselves. As a reluctant Dot travels to England, her Aunt Tab slyly encourages her, “Travel isn’t only going from place to place.”
Dot’s story is an inspiring mix of adventure and travel with a dab of literary history thrown in – look out for Dot’s encounters with Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
I will be posting photographs of my own travels across the English countryside in the same places that Dot visits in the book. I hope you enjoy this blog as much as you enjoy reading Dot to Dot. Please post your comments and questions below – I will get back to you!
Here’s what Dot to Dot’s reviewers have to say:
“Bakke faces Dot’s pain head-on…the shifting relationship between Dot and her aunt, as well as Dot’s tender memories of her mother, are especially well done. With complex characters and eloquent prose, it’s an absorbing story of a girl’s surprising path through her grief (Publishers Weekly)
“…the story of a girl who goes on a journey of distance that turns into a trip where she discovers a lot about herself as well as the people around her.” (Cynthia Hudson, Mother-Daughter Book Club)
“DOT TO DOT is a banquet table of a book, filled with real and imagined heroes, would-be friends, irritating family, cherished memories, new experiences, and leaps through time… True to the best children’s novels we are treated to a plethora of clues that must be solved and secrets that must be uncovered along the way.” (Lynn Grant, YellowWallpaperWriters)
DOT TO DOT is now available at
