Take a Road Trip to the Smokies HELLO, FELLOW BOOKNERDS! Thanks for joining me at my stop for Entangled Teen’s Road Tripping BlogHop! My stop–where my recent book GLOW OF THE FIREFLIES takes place–is the Great Smoky Mountains! I love the mountains! Especially the Smokies. There’s something truly otherworldly about them. When I […]
Hitting the road, Jack! There is no Jack, but you get the reference… I’m going to festivals, y’all!! If you’re in any of these towns come see me! I’d love to meet you! Heartland Book Festival Elizabethtown, KY | Sept. 20-21 Barnes & Noble Signing Baton Rouge, LA | Oct. 5 (Barnes & Noble […]
With my book already being out for two whole months, it is finally starting to sink in that I. Am. An. Author. And with that knowledge comes the fact that I get to start acting like one… which means one thing: events!! Signings, Presentations, and Panels… Oh my! My Fall schedule is actually shaping up to […]
Today is the day… MY BOOK IS OUT IN THE WORLD. (Get it wherever books are sold! All order links are at the bottom of this post. Plus an exclusive excerpt!) Before I get into all the mushy stuff, a quick teaser of one of my favorite lines from the book: After years of writing, […]
Roughly three weeks ago I attended one of my favorite local writers’ conferences, the Jambalaya Writers Conference at the Terrebone Parish Library in Houma, Louisiana. Unfortunately the reason why this post is later than usual is because of the strange swings of publishing where it’s crickets one moment and a raging stampede of white rhinos the next. […]
As discussed in the first part of this blog post, I mentioned that the kids of STEM Academy at Roy J Smith middle school had gathered together questions to ask me. They ranged from basic, simple questions like “do you edit your books before they’re published?” to much more in-depth questions like the ones listed […]
Recently I had my first-ever author school visit. It. Was. Amazing. And that’s me downplaying it. Talking to the kids, even via the Interwebs, about my book, my publishing journey, and what drives me as a writer, was an experience I’ll never forget. Because, really, I think that’s every kid-lit author’s dream. Being able to […]