I’ll be reading Zhen Yu and the Snake and Counting on Naamah at Bookazine on Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 10am in their Prince’s Building shop. There will be cookies!
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I’ll be signing books, reading from Zhen Yu and the Snake, and participating in a panel at Books of Wonder in NYC on October 15, 2023 at 1pm at their 17th Street shop. It’s my first NYC event!
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Baba needs help finding Zhen Yu. Zhen Yu and the Fortune-Teller need help searching for words. Click the links below the images for a downloadable image (PDF) that you can print.
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Naamah is great at math, but she can use some help with these worksheets. Click the link below the images for a downloadable full-size puzzle that you can print (PDF).
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Lately, I’ve been preoccupied with trying to market my books and I find myself wishing that I had more than just a shoestring budget. I have 2 new books (PB #2 and #3 for me) out in little over [Read More]
When people ask me if I’m working on any new projects, I don’t always know how to answer this. Which also makes the question, how is your book coming difficult to answer too.
I’m always working on several projects. I have [Read More]
This might be a review or it might be old news, but there is much to learn about publishing.
When I was a child, my mother was a US history teacher. She had a graduate degree in United States Constitutional History [Read More]
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When I finally decided to try to start a career in children’s books, I imagined a rich and rewarding creative life of long walks where I do my best thinking and then school visits and brainstorming sessions with other authors [Read More]
