Music City Mastications

Speak­ing at the South­ern Fes­ti­val of Books, a long-running book fes­ti­val in Nashville, Tennessee.


Enchilada ARCs Spotted in the Wild

On her blog, Lau­rie Halse Ander­son has posted a photo show­ing the early gal­leys of Soul Enchi­lada dis­played at the Great Lakes Bookseller’s Asso­ci­a­tion annual tradeshow this past week­end. Debut authors some­times won­der when the whole “pub­lished author” thing starts to feel real. I’m not speak­ing for oth­ers, but when an uber-author like Lau­rie Halse


Soul Enchilada Cover

Green­wil­low Books has released the cover for Soul Enchilada!


Soul Enchilada Jacket Art

They say that every book has a story. If that is so, then the story behind the mak­ing of Soul Enchi­lada will start and end with the design–and the evo­lu­tion of the design–of the cover.


The ARC du Tri-humph

I knew it was bound to hap­pen. A Google alert let clued me into an Ebay mer­chant sell­ing a copy of an ARC of Soul Enchi­lada. ARCs are pro­vided free by pub­lish­ers as review copies…


A Win in the (Green)willows

Da-ta-Da! Da-ta-Da! Da-ta-Da! I’m proud to share the news that Jody Feld­man and fel­low Green­wil­low author’s The Gol­ly­whop­per Games was named honor book for the 2008 Mid­west Book­sellers Asso­ci­a­tion Choice Awards for Children’s Lit­er­a­ture. Con­grats to Jody for receiv­ing recog­ni­tion for this ter­rific book. She’ll be accept­ing the award and say­ing a few words Thurs­day