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Writing for Charity Event to Benefit Treehouse

Saturday, August 29, 2009 • 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
at Treehouse Children’s Museum • 801-394-9663
$50 per person ($45 before August 21)
Includes morning snack and lunch
Please make checks payable to: Treehouse Museum

Announcing the 2nd Annual Writing for Charity Event, sponsored by Utah Children’s Book Authors and Deseret Book. This special workshop event features more than 20 published children’s book authors of both picture books and young adult fiction.

Authors scheduled to participate include Brandon Mull (Fablehaven), Shannon Hale (Princess Academy), Rick Walton (Once There Was a Bull....frog and more than 30 other picture books), and Anne Bowen (What DO Teachers Do (After YOU Leave School)).

For a complete list of participating authors please download a registration form.

The Writing for Charity Event, a workshop for aspiring children’s book writers (age 13 and up only), will provide participants with professional advice and the opportunity to have their work evaluated by one of the event’s participating authors. The event includes the opportunity to purchase books and have books signed. Participants can also purchase drawing tickets for great prizes, including signed books and a book bag signed by all of the participating authors.

All proceeds from the event will benefit the non-profit Treehouse Children’s Museum and its award-winning Family Literacy Programs. Writers of children’s picture books should bring a full manuscript (fewer than 1,000 words), and chapter book authors should bring the book’s first page for the critique. Participants are not required to bring work sample for the critique session.

Please note that because of the length of the workshop and the set-up required, Treehouse will be closed to the public that day (Saturday, August 29.)

This event is generously sponsored by

Great review for Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone

Thanks to Colleen Mondor on her blog Bookslut for giving Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone (first in the series The Entomological Tales of Augustus T. Percival) a stellar review. It made me very happy.

See the review at
http://www.bookslut.com/bookslut_in_training/2009_07_014762.php

The ISBN for Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone

I had a request for the ordering information for Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone. You can order it on Amazon or Barnes and Noble or Borders and even from a bookstore in India, (I found out when they contacted me).

The ISBN for the book (the way that books are identified when ordering from the publisher) is

ISBN-13: 978-0-547-15250-9

Paperback edition announced

Houghton Mifflin Children's Books announced that Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone in the series The Entomological Tales of Augustus T. Percival will come out in paperback spring 2010.

3,275 miles to Illinois

And I rode every mile. What a fantastic trip! My husband and I went to see D2 graduate from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with her PhD. Congratulations to D2.

New agent

Welcome to my new agent Eddie Schneider of the JABberwocky Literary Agency. We're already off to a great start.

Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone

Go to bookstore now.
Buy Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone in the series The Entomological Tales of Augustus T. Percival.

I'm so excited about this book. The cover is wonderful and Jen Corace, the illustrator, did a great job of drawing the characters and some bugs and making cute beetles for the chapter headings and page numbers. It looks quite amazing.
Thanks to Kate O'Sullivan of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for all of her hard work and very astute advice.