Just added a new book event to the schedule! Hope you can make it!
Saturday, Oct. 3, 3:30 PM
Toadstool Bookstore
Lorden Plaza
586 Nashua St.,Milford, NH 03055
local but can't make it? Reserve an autographed copy and pick it up later! Call:603-673-1734
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Chat with me!
I'm offering Skype talks! It is September which means school is in, so I thought as part of my book's birthday (it's three months old! I remember when it was just a small ARC. sigh!) that (as well as the download-able activity book and veent kit) I would offer free, virtual visits!If your group ends up collectively purchasing 10 or more copies of WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON, I would be happy to schedule a free 15 minute question and answer Skype call with your readers. Perfect for after school book groups and mother-daughter book clubs! I'm not sure if I will offer this indefinitely, so schedule this as soon as you can. Simply email me and we can set up a time and a list of questions. I hope to talk to you soon! Contact: gracelin.manager@gmail.com
Monday, September 14, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Hear me Roar, I mean, Read!
TeachingBooks.net has added me onto their illustrious list of authors' audio clips. Not only can you learn how to pronounce my name correctly (not that it is tricky), you can listen to me introduce and read a short part of WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON.
If you liked that, you can hear a longer excerpt reading, which I offered at my booklaunch.
Maybe next time, I'll let you hear me sing.
If you liked that, you can hear a longer excerpt reading, which I offered at my booklaunch.
Maybe next time, I'll let you hear me sing.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
get some good karma!
Usually, I try to avoid goodreads like the plague. For authors, visiting book discussion sites & reading amazon reviews are exercises in masochism. Yet, strangely, we are constantly drawn to them in spite of this. Why? Are we all secret gluttons for punishment?
I confess I go because of that secret, small hope to see something nice written about my book. Because when that happens, it is amazing. During my last fearful and furtive goodreads look at Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, I saw that a lovely Laura wrote "The author uses Chinese folktales to tell the story of how Minli find the secret of happiness. If I could write a book, this is the kind of book I would like to write," and suddenly I felt as if the sun was shining on me. Nothing makes an author feel more like life is worth living when they realize that their work has connected in the way they wished.
So, if you are looking for a way to get some good karma, take 5 minutes and write a review of your favorite book. It will make someone's day, I promise.
I confess I go because of that secret, small hope to see something nice written about my book. Because when that happens, it is amazing. During my last fearful and furtive goodreads look at Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, I saw that a lovely Laura wrote "The author uses Chinese folktales to tell the story of how Minli find the secret of happiness. If I could write a book, this is the kind of book I would like to write," and suddenly I felt as if the sun was shining on me. Nothing makes an author feel more like life is worth living when they realize that their work has connected in the way they wished.
So, if you are looking for a way to get some good karma, take 5 minutes and write a review of your favorite book. It will make someone's day, I promise.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
and the august winner is....
Yes, it's that time! I'm choosing the August winner of my contest! With even more fortune cookies, I needed a bigger bowl:
and had to mix it more to feel for a lucky one:
This feels lucky...
And it is....
JEN SOU TSAI!!
who sent in this lovely photo:
Congrats Jen! You get a $25.00 gift certificate to the gracelin store!
Remember, all of you have a chance to win next month, too--not only for the gift certificate but the GRAND PRIZE: your name or likeness in my next book! So post your photos!
and had to mix it more to feel for a lucky one:
This feels lucky...
And it is....
JEN SOU TSAI!!
who sent in this lovely photo:
Congrats Jen! You get a $25.00 gift certificate to the gracelin store!
Remember, all of you have a chance to win next month, too--not only for the gift certificate but the GRAND PRIZE: your name or likeness in my next book! So post your photos!
visiting the darien library
I was given the great honor of being "the prize" for summer readers at the Darien Library, a gorgeous new library in CT that shelves its picture books by subject matter, not author (which is actually brilliant when you think about how parents look for picture books). Kids who participated in the summer reading program (which Year of the Dog was a part of) came to the end of the summer celebration where I spoke.
I told them what was true and what was not true in Year of the Dog.
I taught them how to draw a dog. (We all drew it together! A doggy-draw-along!)
And I read them a selection from Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.
Afterwards, there was a candy reception (the chopsticks did not slow the kids down at all).
Where all the kids got autographed books:
I had an incredibly sweet time. Thank you so much, Darien Librarians!
I told them what was true and what was not true in Year of the Dog.I taught them how to draw a dog. (We all drew it together! A doggy-draw-along!)
And I read them a selection from Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.
Afterwards, there was a candy reception (the chopsticks did not slow the kids down at all).
Where all the kids got autographed books:
I had an incredibly sweet time. Thank you so much, Darien Librarians!
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