I’ll be reading June 2nd as part of Teen Author Reading Night at the Jefferson Market Branch of NYPL, 425 6th Ave @ 10th Street.
I’ll be in the esteemed company of:
Lila Castle, Star Shack
Susane Colasanti, Something Like Fate
Donna Freitas, This Gorgeous Game
Emily Horner, A Love Story Starring My Best Friend
Eliot Schrefer, The Deadly Sister
In the last few weeks, I’ve visited schools in Brooklyn, Bethesda and Rockville, MD, and central New Jersey. All of them vastly different––and I was meeting kids from fifth through seventh grades. What do they all have in common? They — boys and girls — like to be photographed wearing the bonnets that were purchased for the Little Blog cover shoot. Stay tuned for pictures to be posted soon!
May 11th––For the last month I’ve had the feeling that I had some big plan for this date but couldn’t recall it. And then I’d remember: Little Blog is officially released today, meaning you can go to a bookstore and buy it.
This was a little anticlimactic with Slipping, as most bookstores don’t carry a first novel–or at least, mine. That anticlimax was totally turned on its head when, over the next six months or so, a slow trickle of feedback began to arrive. Friends telling of trips to vacation spots where a little bookstore had stocked it, letters from family who had read it and reported weeping at certain parts that I imagine resonated particularly for those of us in my family. Internet reviews. Incredibly touching notes from kids written on three punch lined composition paper and signed in perfect cursive script.
I’m at the end of a year that for the first time ever, has been filled with writing. First I was working on Little Blog in the fall, then on the draft of a third novel I’m writing, then on book $4 for The Amanda Project series, which I am close to having a draft of. I don’t know what the world will make of Little Blog, if I’ll get the same kind of response as Slipping did, but I have that sweet, happy feeling I remember from the days right after both my kids were born.
Little Blog on the Prairie comes out a week from today and I’m getting ready to celebrate! Please join me.
Sun May 16 @ 1pm
Book Court (Court St at Pacific in Bklyn)
Kids encouraged
Snacks, drinks and juice boxes will be served but BYO Bonnet
RSVP Cathleen at cbell1@nyc.rr.com
