Catch me TODAY!. . .if you can

Catch me and 49 other local authors, poets, illustrators at a BOOK SALE!

TODAY (August 26) from 4 PM until 8:30 PM

The Johnson Auditorium
HAVERHILL PUBLIC LIBRARY

99 Main Street
Haverhill, MA 01830


Can you imagine so many local area artists in one spot? You won't want to miss it!

See you there.

More books in library

If you're a writer, you should read. Correct? At least that's what everyone says in all the articles you see about being a writer. Since I agree with that and I have always been a book fiend, I decided to take a picture of my library shelves.

What you see are shelves of my previously read books. . .with the exception of the plastic bag on one shelf that has the 8 books I just purchased today. Sheesh! I just could not help myself. Now this does not include the 6 books I picked up the other day at Miranda Neville's book signing.

The top 3 shelves are doubled-up so there are twice as many books. What you do not see is that below my shelves are 4 cupboards, each with three shelves in them, also doubled-up. All of them except one cupboard are previously read books. So you can see I just HAD to get more books for my TO BE READ PILE.

How about you? What does your library look like? Is it mostly the previously read pile or the to be read pile?

Laurens Library

I think it was a couple of weeks ago that I told you all about my grandmother going to her library to get a copy of my book but it had been checked out.

This morning, while I'm sitting at home sick, I rummaged through a week's worth of mail and found a card from my grandmother. She sent me a card congratulating me on my book and included a small article from her local newspaper that listed my book and that fact that I am Maxine's (grandma's name) grand daughter.

I noticed that the library has a website so I went out there to check it out and sure enough they listed the same information. So cool!

Check it out: http://www.laurenspubliclibrary.com/laurens_public_librarywhats%20new.htm

Book in Library

Cool note.

Last night my parents gave me a call to tell me that I hit big time. Well, in their minds I have and this is why.

My grandmother went to her local bookstore in a small town in Iowa called Laurens and the book was actually listed as being there, but someone had checked it out.

How cute is that!

I told my parents that I would be sending my grandmother her very own copy so she didn't have to go to the library and wait for it.

Just the fact that it was in a library so soon floored me. Neat!