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2025 End of Year Book Survey (& Year in Graphs!)
Instead of a Sunday Post this week, I’m posting a year-end wrap-up. Please scroll all the way down for an important announcement. As I say every year, I’ve adapted the book survey from The Perpetual Page Turner’s End of Year Survey! 2025 READING STATS Number of Books You Read: 162 This is the most… Read more »
November 2025 Reading & Writing Wrap-Up
November Wrap-Up Book News/Progress: Book Sales/Signings: I had two local sales/signings in the past month, one at Sturdy Shelter Brewing and one at Blue House Books. Both went great – selling during the holiday season is a lot easier (and I find it much easier to pitch to people too, because you can always start with,… Read more »
October 2025 Reading & Writing Wrap-Up
October Wrap-Up Book News/Progress: So You Want to Write a Kids’ Book Presentation – I presented at my library about the basics of kidlit writing and publishing. It felt like a great success, and I got really positive feedback on the presentation! How Now Booking Company – I signed up with How Now Booking Company… Read more »
September 2025 Reading & Writing Wrap-Up
September Wrap-Up Book News/Progress: 2026 IL Reads List – THE SONG OF ORPHAN’S GARDEN was chosen for the 2026 IL Reads List! Not only is this a great honor, the organization has several events associated with it throughout 2026 that I’ll get to attend! View this post on Instagram A post shared by… Read more »
August 2025 Reading & Writing Wrap-Up
August Wrap-Up Book News/Progress: Check out this new review of The Song of Orphan’s Garden over at Always in the Middle! I love the way Greg ends his reviews with a “five more things to like about” format! Turned a manuscript in to my agent! – I finally finished the ms I’ve been working on… Read more »
July 2025 Reading & Writing Wrap-Up
July Wrap-Up Book News/Progress: LITaPalooza and KidLITaPalooza – I got to participate in LITaPalooza (and KidLITaPalooza) at Anderson’s Bookshop. I’ve attended these events at Anderson’s for years, so it was really exciting to be on the other side of it. This was the first event where I got to participate on panels, too! View… Read more »
June 2025 Reading & Writing Wrap-Up
June Wrap-Up What I Read:
Fantastic Middle Grade LGBTQ+ Reads!
Pride Month is almost over, but I wanted to share some great middle grade LGBTQ+ reads for all year long! TWELVE MG LGBTQ+ I’VE READ AND RECOMMEND
May 2025 Reading & Writing Wrap-Up
May Wrap-Up Book News/Progress: Poetry workshop: I did poetry workshops at a grade school, one session for each grade. Lots of work, but also really fun. Donation to Bernie’s Book Bank: I already mentioned that we went back to volunteer. This was the first time I donated my own book to Bernie’s, which made it… Read more »
