no hibernation

It’s October already and my fall schedule is rapidly filling up. I’ve been invited back to Weeksville Heritage Center for a second residency (woohoo!) and I’ve just lined up two new partner schools. I’m heading to Baltimore for Kidlitcon on October 10, and then I’ll be in Oakland from 10/19-21. I can’t wait to meet more indie kid lit creators and to brainstorm/hug sequoia with my “rad women” on the west coast. Then I head to London for my birthday and THEN I head to Arkansas for the first week of November. I’m really looking forward to that trip, especially my first scheduled author talk at a juvenile detention facility. The kids there are reading Ship of Souls (on sale on Amazon this month) thanks to a grant from ACTELA. I’ll spend the next day on the ASU campus, and the next day I’ll be in Blytheville. Please stop by That Bookstore in Blytheville if you’re in the vicinity at 4pm on November 3! The conference on Thursday is for educators so if you’re a teacher in AR, I hope I’ll see you there.