Re-Imagining the Past
This morning was our panel at the NYPL; train trouble made me a little late, but once we got started, everything went really well…we had a great group of 6th-graders who had lots of questions and were avid readers and writers. Of course, I brought my Flip camera along so I could record the interesting answers my fellow panelists gave—what an honor to sit beside such smart, creative women! (l-r: Kekla Magoon, Tonya Cherie Hegamin, Rita Williams-Garcia, & me—and special thanks to Latria for taking the great photo above)
Picked up Indian food on the way home, used a cold compress to alleviate my day-late Monday migraine, then headed back out to Battery Park City for a “true crime” panel with Lyn Miller-Lachmann, Peter Marino, and Andrew Xia Fukuda. Andrew’s a fellow AmazonEncore author, and we had our first opportunity to meet one another as well as two members of our amazing Encore team: Sarah and Vicky. It’s Book Expo this week, and I’ll be heading down to the Javits center on Thursday to meet more Encore authors at the Book Blogger Convention reception. I think tomorrow needs to be a day of silence…and I’ve got writing to do—all those pre-dawn ideas that came to me while I was in Toronto. Did I mention the loving army of aunts who’ve been persuading bookstores in Canada to carry my book? My mom’s determined to get my old public schools to give a damn about my writing, but I don’t have much hope. Still, it’s nice to know I’ve got so many advocates up north! And we learned today that the Sacramento Book Review posted a piece on Wish…
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