Kindergarten/Bears

 

I made an ad for my school's kindergarten!  

 

Then I made a sketch of a bear chasing a woman

And inked it in!  This is for a friend's book of poetry.  The title involves a bear and someone leaving.  I hope she doesn't get eaten....

The Caring Center Knows How to Party

Here's a flier I made for my school's 20th Anniversary "Birthday Celebration."  My criteria was to include our frog mascot and all this info.  Originally I thought it was going to be called "Spring Fling." Hence all the flowers.  I think we all know by now I like drawing flowers.  I'm such a girl.

The Book Party: A Dramatic Reading, A Celebrity Guest, and an Important Piece of History Re-Published

Hi all! The book party was a success! The books turned out beautifully (thanks in no small part to the wonderful help of Charles and Matt at Inner Light Books).  I am especially thrilled with the hardcover version.  The best part is, you can get your very own copy today on Amazon.com!

We had about 40 guests and sold about 30 copies, including several orders for the hardcover version.  I was especially happy to meet Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down, who made an appearance and bought not only Cousin Ann, but also said he previously bought a copy of LFT for the kids in his family and they love it!  That just made my day.  My new marketing slogan can now be, "Lizzie Fox-Top:  Mark Bowden has it, so should you!"

Richard and I also did a dramatic reading, he of the historically significant and very moving true story, "Henry Box Brown"...

...and me of my favorite poem in the book, "Johnny Vanline."














It's my favorite because it's so comically heavy-handed with its morality:


Oh never drink cider,
Oh never drink wine,
Nor beer, rum nor brandy
Or shame will be thine
...
But one cold, stormy night
He fell drunk by the sign,
And they found him there dead:
Poor Johnny Vanline!

Ah, fun times.  We all toasted to that one.

It was such a great time, and once again I felt so lucky to have such awesome friends and family, who came all the way out to little Oxford, PA (even 2 cars of friends from Philly, which is an hours' drive!) to support me and my new book.

 

And did I mention it's available on Amazon?

Book Launch this Sunday!

Getting excited for my upcoming launch party for Cousin Ann! It will be at Bookplace in Oxford, PA from 3-5.  I am planning to do a dramatic reading at about 3:30.  It's weird going without having seen the final copy, but I'm sure it turned out wonderful, if I can judge by the books I saw that Inner Light has already done.