Update!

Published: Fri, 08/07/15

Hello ,

Apologies for the slight newsletter this week. I am back home from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Conference in Los Angeles for one day...before heading to Vancouver, WA for the Pacific Northwest Library Association Conference.

Books I Brought Home

Water is Water, by Miranda Paul:

Drip. Sip. Pour me a cup. Water is water unless-it heats up. Whirl. Swirl. Watch it curl. Steam is steam unless-it cools....

Misty. Twisty. Where is the town? Fog is fog unless-if falls down. Patter. Spatter. What is that sound? Rain is rain unless... You get the idea. The book takes children through the water cycle with clever words and beautiful illustrations.

Read more about THE RIGHT WORD here....

And THE COAL THIEF here...

News and Links

Okay, this NEVER happens, except when it does! My agent Steve Fraser e-mailed Wednesday to say I have two book deals in the works! That's right, two deals in one day. Excuse me, while I go jump up and down and shout. Once, I went ten years between book deals.

Steve was one of the keynote speakers at the SCBWI conference this past weekend, and so we had a chance to visit. We have a verbal agreement on these two book project and when the contracts are issued, I will be able to give details. I'm sorry to keep secrets. You will be first to get the news when I have it.

Catch me at the Pacific Northwest Library Association Annual Conference, August 6-7, in Vancouver, Washington, I'll be speaking on a panel Nonfiction Rocks! with authors Laurie Ann Thompson and Elizabeth Rusch.

At the same conference I'll join three Spokane writers to talk about Connecting young readers with the writers who love them: How SCBWI can help bring authors and illustrators into your library programming.

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Mary

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