Monthly Updates

Cowboy Car’s First School Visit, Plus a GoodReads Giveaway!

March 23, 2017

Revving up for the April 11th release of my new book, COWBOY CAR! Got to take Little Car for a  “test drive” a few weeks ago when visited Ridgeway Elementary in Columbia, MO. The students were excited that they were the first kids to see (and hear) a book that hadn’t even come out yet. […]

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Meet My Summer Intern!

July 21, 2016

I’m pleased to have my youngest son, Alex, helping me out this summer, cleaning up mailing lists, researching educator conferences and children’s lit festivals, and updating my website. He’s also writing and posting on various social media, brainstorming book promotions, and doing whatever he can so I can write my next book. “Beach breaks” on […]

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Author’s Note: March 2016

March 30, 2016

If March comes in like a lion, it’s supposed to go out like a lamb. But I live in St. Louis, Missouri, where March can be lions and more lions, with maybe a lamb or two in between, if we’re lucky. Turns out this old saying is pretty much fiction when it comes to predicting […]

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