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My visit to Roberts Elementary School

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Today, I visited Roberts Elementary School. I did my Power Point presentation for grades 3, 4 and 5. We had so much fun and it was great despite the threatening weather.

At my last presentation, the WCTV news crew showed up. They filmed my talk and interviewed me after it was over. Thanks to WCTV for stopping by! The funniest line of the day came when they showed up with a camera.

When a girl in the front row saw the news crew, her eyes got wide and she looked at me. She said, “Oh my gosh. You even have paparazzi following you!” I explained who they were and that didn’t make her any less excited, LOL.

The kids asked a zillion smart questions and I enjoyed visiting the school. Thanks again to Bill and Erma for all of their hard work.

As I was getting ready to leave, Erma (the media center specialist) handed me an envelope. Inside, were letters that some of the kids had written to me after the presentation. So. Cute. Some of the letters encouraged me to keep buying cotton candy Lip Smackers, which I’d told them was my fave. Others had phone numbers and email addresses for me to say hi. One told me to only eat cereal from now on after I told the “I set my microwave on fire before” story. 🙂

Thank you ALL for the amazing letters and drawings. You guys rock!

WCTV video! :)

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I have video! 🙂 I watched it this morning with one eye covered…I hate watching myself on TV, LOL. It’s weird.

I’m off to my school visit at Roberts in a little while. We’re under a tornado watch because there’s a tornado on the ground not far from here. So, I might be doing the tornado drill in the hallway with the kids. Eek! 🙂 The sky’s that gross yellowish gray. And that’s why I’ll be leaving early.

Hope you all enjoy the video! I’ll have pics to share when I get back from today’s visit.

Thanks, Tallahassee!

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First, thanks to S&S for featuring me on the author page. How awesome! And I love my quote, LOL. Maybe I shouldn’t have told people that I greet animals. 🙂

Yesterday, I meet the awesome Jessi for an interview for the NE Chronicle. That was so much fun. 🙂 Thanks, Jessi!

Then, I drove around and visited Tallahassee’s Borders, Books-a-Million and Barnes & Noble. Borders and BAM were sold out of TTR, but more are on order. B&N had two copies left, which are now signed. In purple. Just in case it matters. 😉

Thanks so much, Tally people! I’ll keep visiting stores and signing stock as they come in. The local support has been amazing–thanks!

Next week, I meet with a writer for Tallahassee Magazine. It’s a gorgeous local publication and I’m super excited to be included in an upcoming issue.

And, perhaps most exciting of all, I turned in Triple Fault (Canterwood Crest #4) to Agent A yesterday. Now I’m staying busy by plotting CC #5 (it has the coolest title!) and am not driving myself crazy with “she’s going to hate it” thoughts. 🙂 Not at all.

I also can’t seem to ignore my new YA WIP. It keeps bugging me and I’m finally like, “Fine! Okay! Okay! I’ll type just a little bit.”

What’s everyone working on?