Happy Early Valentine's Day: Someone Wants Me!

Dear Readers,
So I got invited to do a signing/reading at a kids' literary festival in the spring.  I am pretty excited because I had left a copy of Lizzie Fox-Top at this store, hoping they would carry it, but had trouble getting in touch with the owner after that.  I didn't expect to hear back, but then I got this invite!  It sounds like a fun gig; I hope I get to do it.

In other news, you should probably buy my new book if you haven't already.  I'm just sayin'.  Thanks.

Love,
Stevie

Publishing Announcement!

So if you've seen my blog lately, you'll notice I have been working on illustrations for a book of Quaker stories written by Ann Preston, a famous doctor in the 1800s.  I've been working on it with a friend of mine who is a professor at Temple U and an antiquarian bookseller (it was his idea, intro, and editing).  Well, he found us a publisher!  They're called Inner Light Books and they specialize in Quaker lit, appropriately enough.  They plan to have our book out by Nov. 2010, just in time for Christmas.  So if you like Quakers, or whimsical black-and-white ink illustrations, or morally-instructing tales of woe and horror, then start your Christmas list early and make this one number one!  

LFT Now Available at New Location in Warrenton, Va!

8 copies of LFT are now available (signed!) at Horse Country Sadlery in Warrenton, Virginia!  This was a surprise to me, as my boyfriend and I just popped in to town for a night of fun visiting my his friends from high school.  One of his friends, an equestrian and fox-huntress, mentioned this store to me because they sell adorable fox-shaped hats (perfect for a reading, I thought!) so I went to check it out.  It turned out they were sold out of the hats, but were very interested in a fox-themed children's book! 

I do recognize the irony of the fact that my sweet book about an anthropomorphic pet fox is being sold in a store that celebrates fox-hunting, but hey, it's an untapped demographic, and it's already a given that that participants of such a hobby will appreciate the subject matter!