News:
So excited to be working with Geneviève Godbout and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on my first interactive board book — BABY’S HERE! Look for it in Spring, 2022!
Thrilled to be working with Rafael Lopez and Little, Brown on a new picture book — I’LL MEET YOU IN YOUR DREAMS! Coming in Spring, 2021!
Check out Maria Cristina Pritelli’s beautiful cover illustration for A WISH IS A SEED. You can order a signed/personalized copy now from Parnassus Books!
Signed books:
Order signed/personalized copies of all my books at Parnassus Books (they ship!).
Interviews:
How SCBWI Helps Launch Careers: A Conversation with Four Authors for Parnassus Musings
With a Big Heart and Big Dreams — Chapter 16 interview with Susan Eaddy
Book Time interview
Interview with James Burks on Haggis and Tank Unleashed
Interview with Charles Santoso on Spy Guy
Spy Guy‘s wonderful illustrator, Charles Santoso, featured on 7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast blog
Interview with Chapter 16 (Humanities Tennessee)
Interview with Julie Danielson on Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast blog
Interview with Elizabeth O. Dulemba on My Blue is Happy
Interview on Celebrating Debutantes 2013 blog
Interview with Chapter 16 (Humanities Tennessee) on My Blue is Happy
Interview with Frog on a Blog
“Celebri-Dots” project for International Dot Day — a celebration of creativity that was inspired by Peter H. Reynolds’ book “The Dot.” See my happy blue dot, and make a “dot” of your own!
Read some reasons I love picture books.
Events:
2020
February 8: Library Presentations, Johnson County Public Library, White River and Franklin Branches, Greenwood and Franklin, IN
February 24: University School of Nashville Evening Class, Nashville, TN
March 1: A Wish is a Seed book launch party, Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN
March 7: Cheekwood Bracken Foundation Children’s Garden opening story time, Nashville, TN
March 20-21: Southern Kentucky Book Festival, Bowling Green, KY — Cancelled
June: Upper Cumberland Literacy Association Summer Conference, Cookeville, TN — Cancelled
September 1: Fairylight Friends — A Magic Spark book launch party, Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN (*This event may be virtual.)
2019
February 21: University School of Nashville Evening Class, Nashville, TN
February 24: Children’s Writing Presentation, SCBWI Midsouth, Bowling Green KY
March 12: Tuesdays for Tots Reading, Activities, and Signing, Cheekwood, Nashville, TN
March 23: Reading, Cheekwood, Nashville, TN
March 30: Reading, Activities, and Signing, Cheekwood, Nashville, TN
April 19-20: Spring Art Hop, Cheekwood, Nashville, TN
April 26-27: Southern Kentucky Book Festival, Bowling Green, KY
July 16: Guelph Public Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
September 14-15: Midsouth SCBWI Conference, Franklin, TN
September 20-21: Heartland Book Festival, Elizabethtown, KY
October 21-24: School Visits, Louisville, KY
November 8-9: EpicFest, Charlotte, NC
November 21: NAEYC (Publisher Spotlight Booth Signing), Nashville TN
November 22-24: NCTE (Panel and Publisher Spotlight Booth Signing), Baltimore, MD
