I am taking a VEEEERY limited amount of custom Canterwoood Crest Academy Class of 2014 tees!

If you look on the store and don’t see colors you’d like, you can e-mail me your request and I will do my best to make the shirt for you.

Here’s what you need to do:

Look at the left color palate. Those are the ONLY colors I can use for text and the horse. You can choose a color for the text and the horses. They do not have to be the same.

So, say you want a ORANGE text, you’d email me something like “for text, row 5 second color.” 

Then for the horse, how about yellow? “for horse, row 4 sixth color.” 

As for shirt color, those are on the RIGHT.

You’d write me, “Shirt color row 2 second color.” 

That way, instead of you emailing me and saying “white shirt, pink text, blue horse” there’s no confusion about what pink or what blue you want.”

Please email these to me at teamcanterwood AT gmail DOT com with “T-shirt request” in the headlines. 

The graphic has TWO options:

 OPTION 1: WALKING HORSE

OPTION 2: JUMPING HORSE

Please specify either option 1 or 2. 

Those are the ONLY graphic options. 🙂

Can’t wait to make some shirts for Team Canterwood!

PS: I cannot add text graphics to the back. I can only do what I have explained here. 🙂

PPS: You don’t need to send me sizes or anything. I will create the shirt and upload it to the store where you can then purchase it. 🙂

I talked about this in a vlog, but wanted to blog it since HOME FOR CHRISTMAS is out in some places and very soon coming to others.

So, we all want a Canterwood movie or TV show, right? 🙂

*I* have zero control over it. It’s all up to people in Hollywood.

BUT

There are things we can do.

The #1 most important thing is book sales. We have to get friends, family–everyone to get copies of the Canterwood books (e-books count, too!). Hollywood takes notice when books sell well.

#2

Review the books on Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, IndieBound.org, BooksaMillion.com and/or any other book retailer. Of COURSE I want your review to be honest. Please don’t rate one of them 5 stars if it’s not how you really feel.

Take the review–however long or short–(Seriously! Even a 1 sentence review is AWESOME!) and copy and paste it on the book retailer sites I mentioned.

Why are the reviews important?

They tell people who haven’t read Canterwood that, let’s say, CITY SECRETS is worth reading. People base a LOT of what they buy or do not buy on reviews. It will directly impact #1 above.

Thank you, thank you for all of your help, amazing Team Canterwood! I love you all and let’s get movie/TV makers to notice us! 🙂

J

I have so many things to say about the finale of Canterwood Crest. Like, SO many things.

But I try to write this post and I’m not ready. Not yet. 🙂 I’m in complete denial that this is the last book of the Canterwood Crest series. That said, there are so many things that I am so grateful for–the series reaching 20 books being one of them. Plus, I am loving writing UNICORN MAGIC and WILD HEARTS.

Another, is that I will have the chance to continue to tell stories from Sasha and Lauren via upcoming e-novellas. I want you all to know that, due to contract reasons, I will not be publishing these myself. Instead, Simon & Schuster will be in charge of making these e-novellas available to you. I will have complete control over mostly everything aside from pricing. I do not yet know what the e-novellas will cost now that I am not in control of that.I will make sure the cost is as low as I can get it–I promise. But I am happy that S&S is working with me to continue Canterwood and not put a final end to the series.

I will be working on a vlog of me reading the first chapter of HFC and will make/upload it soon. 🙂

How are you guys, my Team Canterwood family, feeling about HOME FOR CHRISTMAS?

xoxo

Just stumbled on this . . . so exciting! I HEART Dover so, so much! Even though I can’t ride anymore, I still fangirl when a new catalog arrives. 🙂 Seeing Canterwood in Dover (no clue how long it has been there) is really, really cool!

It’s officially back to work time!

I am NERVOUS and SUPEREXCITED!

I’m anxious about how my arm/elbow is going to acclimate being used again. I don’t have time in my new schedule to take it snnnaaaaiiil slow, but I am going to start off a little easy and then get ready for full tilt go-mode. Fingers crossed that the rest, new medication, and other pain management techniques will work.

Because I have three books to write. 😀

THAT makes me freak out with happiness!! I get to spend time in the chapter book/fantasy world with the third UNICORN MAGIC book. With WILD HEARTS, I go back to horses and the rugged setting of Wyoming and wild mustangs. Plus, it’s YA so I don’t have to keep the content G-rated. THEN, I can be back to Canterwood (yaaaaay!) with HEATED my first Canterwood Crest e-novella.

What a fun, fab mix of projects!

I missed you all and am glad to be back! I AM going to put the breaks on replying to Team Canterwood mail via email right now. That doesn’t mean I won’t read every single email! They go straight to my iPhone so I won’t miss ONE. And, instead of typing back answers, I’ll try to Keek responses at least a couple of times a month.

So, you don’t have to have Keek, but if you want to ask me a question, @ reply to me on Twitter or e-mail as usual and make the subject: Question for Keek. Keep in mind, it’s something I have to be able to answer in 30 seconds or less. I’ve done this before and used #qandaforJ. You can also post them here, if you like. 🙂

Okay, off to work! Let’s hope I didn’t forget how to be a writer. 😉

Don’t worry! I am allowed to be online. 🙂 My doctor wants me to use the computer for about half an hour to chart my pain level.

I just finished a fab, fun Skype classroom visit with 7th and 8th graders from Womango Regional High School in CT.

I’ve visited with Abbe’s (the coordinator of my visit) school twice before and always have a blast. I would Skype with them every month if I could! 🙂

These students are going to be the next crop of published young authors–I know it!

So, I want to have amazing online Home for Christmas/goodbye to Canterwood Crest parties.

First, we party via LiveStream like we did for the Famous release. You create a free account, get online at a set time and you’ll have access to a chat box and to me via Webcam. You’ll be able to type questions/comments to me that everyone can see. I’ll answer them via my Webcam. I’ll be online for one hour and you can pop in whenever you like to lurk or ask a question.

Everyone and anyone in the world can participate. LiveStream will allow as many people who want to join in. It’s anonymous because you can use a screen name. You get to “see” me via Webcam.

If you can’t make it to the actual live event, it will be recorded for you to view later. 

Party #2 is one that I’ve never done and is the ULTIMATE VIP party! I mean, Home for Christmas is a super special, so we need a super special party, right?

We will use Google+ Hangout. This is also totally free (you do have to sign up for a Google+ account to video chat). NINE winners (I will have a contest soon!) will join me live online where we will all (me plus the other chosen 9 members of Team Canterwood) can video chat with each other. OMG! Team Canterwood members from across the country will get to meet! That is soooo awesome!

If you don’t win the contest, you can still watch the party–you just will not be able to message me or the other Team Canterwood members who are on video chat.

This contest is only be open to US and Canada residents because other countries will be charged to video chat. However, if you are just watching the party–you can live anywhere. 

You can view the party from your iPhone, iPad or other smartphone if you can’t be on a computer.

If you are one of the 9 people who get to video party, you’re more than welcome to grab any friends that want to attend and share your Webcam with them. 🙂

If you’re not able to make it to the party, it will be recorded and will go up on YouTube for you to watch at any time.

Below, is a random Google video chat that I just started watching a few minutes ago (no Google+ account needed to watch). I took a screen shot so you can see how it would look for all of us via video chat. Isn’t it cool?!

So . . . if being part of the video chat party interests you, please do some reading about how it works, what you need to do to participate, etc.

The poll for the two party dates will close on October 30. Then, the dates will be announced. I will blog or vlog very soon about how you can participate in a contest to be on the video chat.

Soo excited! What do you guys think? 

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I’m hosting an online party to celebrate the release of Home for Christmas! If you want to attend, please vote for the date of your choice and whatever date has the most votes will be the live party date! The date with the most votes will be the party day! 🙂 How the party will be hosted will be asked in the next blog post.