I was in the big room, y’all. The big room.
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A whole bunch of people and little old me at the 44th SCBWI Summer Conference (Photo by Paul O. Zelinsky) |
Tuesday, February 2 @ 6:00 PM
Books Build Conversations (w/ Stephanie Seales and Sara Hines)
Falmouth Public Library (w/ Eight Cousins Books)
Falmouth, MA
Wednesday, February 3
School visits w/ Eight Cousins (Falmouth, MA)
Thursday, February 4
School visits w/ Odyssey Books (South Hadley, MA)
Thursday, February 4 @ 6:00 PM
Author Event at Odyssey Books (South Hadley, MA)
Friday, February 5
Visits w/ Anderson’s Bookshop (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, February 6 @ 2:00 PM
Event at Anderson’s Bookshop – La Grange
La Grange, IL
Monday, February 8
School visit with RJ Julia (Madison, CT)
Tuesday, February 9
School visit with Parnassus Books (Nashville, TN)
Wednesday, February 10
School visits with Children’s Book Wold (Haverford, PA)
Thursday, February 11
Scholastic Summer Challenge school visit at Lake Nona Middle School (Orlando, FL)
Visits with Watchung Books (Montclair, NJ)
This will be my first official book tour. I’m super excited, but it’ll be hard to be away from the girls for so long. (Especially considering that I’ll be participating in a week of visits in Hong Kong later this spring–my first international book trip!)
In addition, I’ve got another book coming out on April 26th. Here’s the cover for my Spirit Animals book, The Return:
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Don’t Meilin and Jhi look fierce? |
And that’s just through April. So all in all, there’s a lot going on in 2016. Hope to see you on the road!