The Silver Lining

PRINCESS PEEPERS!!!!

And she's all glittery and pink and perfect! YAY!!!!

I just got an email from the blog author of Miss Rumphius Effect and Open Wide, Look Inside. She teaches elementary math pedagogy--they are studying how to bring math literature into the classroom and each chose a favorite title and guess what? One of her students chose Multiplying Menace. Here's the podcast if you're interested: Podcast


In Princess news, my illustrator, Tuesday Mourning, was interviewed on a Style show and believe it or not, that is not her real name! HA! Check out the short clip and see if you can find Princess Peepers cover (I haven't revealed it yet--you've only seen the title page.) If you're curious, check it out here (click on "watch video" to the upper right of the screen) : Tuesday Mourning on STYLE

Here's the cover for my newest book, Mystery at the Ballpark. 

  

Now it seems real. I can't wait to see the puzzle. :-)

I found a nice, padded package from Cavendish today. It's my edits for Princess and a nice newly released Cavendish book entitled, Bubble and Squeak. My five year old loves it!

My launch date is set for Fall 2008. Wow. And they are looking for illustrators now, so send way cool vibes over to the art director there! I'm very excited about their ideas already. This will be one fun book (of course, I'm biased. HA!)

And so, this puts me in a good writerly mood for a conference. No stormy agentdom worries hanging over me. Cavendish just swept them away!