by Rebecca | Jun 21, 2022 | audience, audiobooks, AWESOMENESS, book publishing, books, debutanting, gratitude, hello, In Case of Emergency, middle grade, news, releases, Sourcebooks, survival stories, The Disaster Days
Exciting news: The Disaster Days is now available across platforms as an audiobook, from Tantor Audio! I love how actress and voiceover artist Jennifer Sun Bell has told Hannah’s story–and I hope listeners will, too. This is the very first audio edition...
by Rebecca | Jun 1, 2021 | Alone in the Woods, awards and honors, book publishing, books, i heart the beach, In Case of Emergency, libraries, middle grade, news, pairs well with a hammock, paperback, releases, Sourcebooks, summertime, survival stories, The Disaster Days
The Disaster Days releases in trade paperback today! Now all five of my books are available in that format–my personal favorite to read, because it’s perfect to stash in a beach/pool bag, a backpack, or hold onto while you’re standing on the subway....
by Rebecca | May 1, 2020 | awards and honors, AWESOMENESS, book publishing, gratitude, happy happy joy joy, In Case of Emergency, middle grade, news, Sourcebooks, survival stories, teachers are the best, The Disaster Days
I’m thrilled to share that The Disaster Days is an official 2020 ILA Teachers’ Choices Selection. From ILA’s website: Our Choices reading lists, shaped by thousands of students and educators across the United States, serve as a valuable resource—particularly in...
by Rebecca | Apr 9, 2020 | awards and honors, AWESOMENESS, books, feel the love, goals, gratitude, happy happy joy joy, In Case of Emergency, libraries, middle grade, news, Sourcebooks, teachers are the best, The Disaster Days
I’m really excited to share that The Disaster Days was selected by Bank Street College of Education as one of its “best books” of 2020. From Bank Street’s website: [The 2020] edition includes more than 600 titles chosen by the Children’s Book...
by Rebecca | Mar 26, 2020 | adventures, book clubs, eReading, eventful, In Case of Emergency, middle grade, news, readers/reception, Sourcebooks, survival stories, talking about writing, teachers are the best, The Disaster Days, this is how we read it, verisimilitude, What I'm Reading Right Now
The scariest thing about writing The Disaster Days was realizing how the heightened scenario I put my characters in–which really felt like capital-F Fiction when I started working on the book, despite all that research–was, actually, pretty realistic....
by Rebecca | Dec 31, 2019 | books, gratitude, I talk about food too much, In Case of Emergency, middle grade, nostalgia, releases, The Disaster Days, The Last Grand Adventure, treat this post as evidence of procrastination, watch out I'm getting all verklempt, why so many tags for such a short and insubstantial post?, WIP, wrap ups, writing
According to my Instagram, these nine photos sum up my 2019: I see a lot of books (launching The Disaster Days and receiving an honor for The Last Grand Adventure), writing (I took my 2020 release from blank page to revised, final manuscript in 11 months!), and one...
