I was truly bowled over today after I received a thank-you message from a teacher I met at the Kansas Reading Association’s annual conference last October. To my surprise and great delight, Karla Smallwood from Oswego Middle School in Oswego, Kansas, informed me she … Read more →
I’m thrilled to share the news that I’ll be heading back to beautiful Chittenango, New York, the birthplace of Oz author L. Frank Baum, for their annual Oz-Stravaganza! festival in 2012! The three-day event (June 1-3), which draws a whopping … Read more →
On a recent episode of Hollywood Treasures on the Syfy Channel entitled “Justice For Dorothy,” host Joe Maddalena attempts to retrace footsteps at the scene of the crime for one of Hollywood’s biggest unsolved mysteries: the stolen pair of Ruby … Read more →
The morning session of the Kansas Reading Association’s 2011 annual convention was a big success! I met a lot of wonderful people, enjoyed reconnecting with the familiar faces of fellow Kansas authors, and sold a lot of books to enthusiastic … Read more →
It doesn’t come up often, but every now and then, someone asks me why I chose not to show the famous footwear on the cover of my book “Silver Shoes.” It would be an obvious choice, right? The book is called … Read more →
