Warming my bike up for the spring... this video is for my posse!

It has been snowing quite a bit here in Colorado and while I love that for winter sports, I am ready for warmth and sun and spring and gardening and OH NO, more squirrel adventures, but mostly I love biking in the Rocky Mountains and YES, I DO USUALLY wear a helmet, but this was a quick trip to fill that tank and mail some books to my readers.

The quality of this video is a bit lacking, but that is mostly because I was riding my Hawg, while filming with my iphone while trying to figure out if I was going to be able to shift... while...

Enjoy yourselves out there!

Gabe gets a new look!

The Go Ask Mom series is getting a whole new look, new covers, new illustrator, same old author. David Scheidt, who illustrated Drinking Fountain Joe is re-illustrating Go Ask Mom and The World According to Gabe as well as illustrating books 3-6 in the series AND we are collaborating on a comic book (written from Gabe's perspective) called The Sea Monkey That Ate My Brother.

I am SO EXCITED to see the new perspectives in your hands. The third book is scheduled to be completely designed and finished by end of month, so it could be in book stores by late Spring.

Getting the Hollywood treatment!

The Dream books are sold out everywhere (except at amazon.com and my website). They will be reprinted this spring with a little bit of a facelift. I hope you are dreaming big and living even bigger!

SISTER ACT!

Some time ago I wanted to start a cool segment for my blog where I featured kids reading my books! I thought it would encouraging for other kids to see that books are cool and a photo gallery of kids enjoying my books seemed the ticket. Problem is when you have less than 30 followers on your blog it is hard to get the word out... so I got a handful and then moved on to other subjects to tackle...
Perhaps that is a signal to me to write something more interesting??? HA HA, or as they say on the internet LOL.

NOW, here is something fun that happened. I met a very nice woman at the gym where I work out who shared with me that after her daughter met me, had me sign a copy of Go Ask Mom for her, then took it home and saran wrapped it so it would stay in good condition. I was flattered, but also think the book is worth reading, SO, I brought in a copy of the sequel for her, unsigned, with the caveat that after she read it, I would sign it (the trick is she would want to read the first book in the series before she read the second, right?

So, the next thing you know she unwrapped it and dove in. Not long after she and her sister were in the gym with mom and I took the opportunity to "walk the track" with her to see if she was enjoying the book and if she had any advice for me as I am writing six books in the series. She is a delightful young lady!

Her little sister was busy watching a video of Justin Bieber (new teen singing sensation, Tiger Beat kind of kid) on her electronic device and could barely be bothered with all this "book talk". "Someday, I thought... maybe she'll read one of my books too!"

Lo and behold... she did! NOT ONLY did she read one of my books, but she made some drawings to go with it...


















(To those of you who follow my blog, you have no idea how much you mean to me, to think you might be enjoying it enough to get a chuckle or a thought that is worth passing along, THANK YOU! Please pass it on...)

Thanks SISTERS, you made my day! Now, get off the computer and go read a book!