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October 2015 Third Thursday Meeting at the Writers’ League of Texas

Aloha, Friends, Spooked about writing? Please join Greg Levin, Jason Neulander, Amy Tinera and I tomorrow night for: Write Fright Night! Dealing with Spine-Tingling Writerly Anxieties Thursday, October 15, 2015, 7 PM at BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar Blvd., 3rd floor* Free and Open to the Public. Aloha, Anne

 

Southern Book Festival Highlights!

Aloha, Friends! I had a fantastic time in Nashville. I made many new friends this weekend, including Tacky the Penguin, whom I’ve been a fan of for years, and Marion and Jack, two amazing book festival volunteers, who took the time to come to our session! I so loved panel-ing with Cynthia Lord and Gail Nall and our moderator […]

 

Southern Festival of Books Panel, Saturday, Oct. 10th

Aloha, friends, I’m counting the days until Nashville! There’s an amazing lineup of authors and illustrators for adults and children this coming weekend. I’ll be attending as many sessions as possible. Click here to see the schedule. Here’s the panel I’m on: Change for the Better: The Struggle of Adapting in Middle Grade Fiction Gail […]

 

Southern Festival of Books–Oct. 9-11

Aloha Friends! I have more exciting book festival news! I’m thrilled to be a part of the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville this Fall. I’ll be on a panel with two incredible middle grade authors, Gail Nall (Breaking the Ice) and Cynthia Lord (A Handful of Stars)! And I can’t wait! If you are in the […]

 

Texas Book Festival news!

Aloha, Friends! I hope everyone had a fantastic summer! It’s starting to feel a bit like Fall around Austin this month. Hooray for cooler temps! I’m honored to announce that I’ll be a featured author at the 20th Texas Book Festival next month! The celebrations will take place in and around the Texas State Capitol […]

 

Happy Summer!

Hello, Friends, I hope you are having a fabulous summer! I had the great good fortune of returning to the Vermont College of Fine Arts last month for an Alumni Mini-Residency. It was so, so wonderful to be back on campus, reconnect with classmates and faculty, meet my agent in person, and make new friends. […]

 

Book Launch Party Happiness!

Aloha, Friends, Thanks to everyone who was at BookPeople last Sunday, in person and in spirit, to celebrate Anywhere but Paradise! Mahalo nui loa. Thank you very much. Akiko White, cakelustrator extraordinarie, created a most fabulous cake! Vivian, an incredible hula dancer from Island Rhythms , graced the stage. My dear friend and talented author, Kathi Appelt, […]

 

Book Launch is Sunday, May 3 at 3PM! Two new blog posts!

Aloha, Friends, In a little over a week, I’ll be celebrating and signing ANYWHERE BUT PARADISE at BookPeople, Austin’s amazing independent bookstore at Sixth and Lamar! I’d love to see you there, Sunday, May 3rd at 3PM. To read about Musicality: Composing with Repetitions, a guest post I wrote this week, click on over to […]

 

TLA love and two more blog posts about Anywhere but Paradise!

Aloha, Friends, The Texas Library Association Annual Conference last week was book heaven on earth! I met SO many amazing librarians, teachers and students from across the state. Plus a few who came from Louisiana 🙂 Here are a couple of other guest posts I wrote this month: Dear Teen Me The Page 69 Test […]

 

TLA Annual Conference this THIS week!

Aloha, Friends, This week I’ll be at the Texas Library Association Annual Conference in Austin! If you are attending from out of town, a special welcome to you! Please drop by and say hello. Here’s where I’ll be: Wednesday, April 15th 11am-noon signing in autograph area, aisle 6 4pm-5:20pm YART Texas Tea Thursday, April 16th […]