Avalanche of Awesomeness/Windstorm of Woe

Hello!

I’ve missed posting here for a while, so please forgive all the catching up I’ll have to do today! At first, I was absent for good/great reasons…

A trip to Paris with my niece!

Notre Dame

A long-awaited trip for the two of us. We left after we ate the last croissants in the city. Paris is delicious.

School visits!

Author posters are so fun!

Author posters are so fun! This one was at Rooster Springs Elementary.

You know what never gets old? Seeing kid-made art of my covers.

You know what never gets old? Seeing kid-made art of my covers.

Library visits!

A writing workshop at the Wimberley Village Library is the perfect way to end the school year.

A writing workshop at the Wimberley Village Library is the perfect way to end the school year.

End of School stuff for my kids!

Funniest end of the year presentation ever: my kid acted out the Black Knight skit from Monty Python's Spamalot. (He was King Arthur.)

Funniest end of the year presentation ever: my kid acted out the Black Knight skit from Monty Python’s Spamalot. (He was King Arthur.)

Amazing book launch parties for my friends!

I love Joy Preble and her books so much! Check out her latest, The A-Word, from Soho Press.

I love Joy Preble and her books so much! Check out her latest, The A-Word, from Soho Press.

Bethany Hegedus's amazing picture book launch party featured an equally amazing cake by cakellustrator Akiko White!

Bethany Hegedus’s amazing picture book launch party featured an equally amazing cake by cakellustrator Akiko White!

And even an Indies First! Read-Aloud Storytime day in Houston!

IMG_3312 IMG_3313

With Kathy Duval, Crystal Allen, and Varsha Bajaj. So much fun!

With Kathy Duval, Varsha Bajaj, me and Crystal Allen. So much fun!

Anyway…

I had plans to do an amazing, thought-provoking recap post (or series of posts!) about all of that stuff. Then a giant windstorm whipped through my neighborhood (like a tornado, with wind speeds up to 120+ according to a neighbor with a wind gauge) and did very bad things to my house (trees falling on our AC units, leaks forming in the house, goat shed picked up and removed from the yard!!!) and injured one of our sweet goats. (She is okay! Just a bunch of stitches and now a lot of TLC.)

So I’m writing this in a house with no AC (not a big deal unless you live where I do, where temps in the summer reach “Hades” by noon), waiting for workpeople to come and make the house liveable again.

Consequently, I may not be able to check in here as much over the summer.

But there are big things on the way! In August, I will have a brand new author website! It’s going to be soooo pretty.

And I’m at all sorts of events this summer, including out of state bookstore visits! Here’s a quick list of places that are confirmed. Come see me there! And bring me a popsicle? It’s hot.

Writer’s League of Texas Thursday panel on pitches, June 19, 7 p.m. at Bookpeople

Westbank Library in Beecave, Writing workshop for young writers, July 29, 4:30 pm

And guess what? I’m doing a mini BOOK TOUR in New Mexico and Colorado!

August 2, Bookworks in Albuquerque, 10:30 a.m. with the stunning author Kimberley Griffiths Little!

August 3, Beehive Books in Santa Fe, N.M., time TBA

August 6, Boulder Bookstore in Boulder, CO, 6:30 p.m.

More dates and venues to come! Stay safe, and write on.

Posted in Children's Fiction, Family News, Miscellaneous, School Visits on 06/16/2014 02:03 pm

1 Comment

  1. Hey Miss Awesome,
    We’ll still be friends – even though your famous ‘n’ all, right? Hope that A/C gets fixed ASAP. Ours was out for about five minutes this morning and the temp shot up to 75. Yowzers.
    Love and hugs from East of you.

    Reply

Leave a Reply