Most of the time being a school librarian is a great day job for being a writer. Lots of access to both kids and books. However, one negative is that working in a school makes it almost impossible for me to visit any other schools as an author. It seems that my staff and students [...]

Whew! What a whirlwind trip. We did the visit-the-relatives, attend-part-of-ALA, tour-Chicago combo vacation. We even celebrated a birthday in there!
Our Nonfiction Book Blast presentation at ALA on Sunday was a huge success. The (enormous) room was full. We had crowds waiting to come in! This was–frankly–amazing to me. Not because we didn’t deserve it (all [...]