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 | Feb 13, 2020 | adventures, Alone in the Woods, contests and giveaways, covers, middle grade, news, pairs well with a hammock, preorders, releases, sharks versus bears, Sourcebooks, summertime, survival stories, titles, writing
There’s a reason I’ve been in my writing cave lately: I’ve been finishing final edits on a new book coming out this year! Alone in the Woods releases on October 6, 2020. And the awesome website YAYOMG! helped me share its super-cool cover and an...
by Rebecca | Dec 30, 2019 | adventures, authors, book people, books, eventful, heaven aka bookstores, In Case of Emergency, IRL, lets take this show on the road, libraries, middle grade, readers/reception, school visits, Sourcebooks, survival stories, teachers are the best, The Disaster Days, tours, wrap ups
Author friend Michelle Schusterman and I had a fantastic time visiting schools and bookstores in the Dallas area this November: Lamar Middle School in Flower Mound; Bowie, Crockett, Lady Bird Johnson, and Lamar Middle Schools in Irving; Barnes & Noble Southlake;...
by Rebecca | Nov 3, 2019 | eventful, feel the love, heaven aka bookstores, In Case of Emergency, lets take this show on the road, nErDcampLI, party time, releases, Sourcebooks, survival stories, talking about writing, The Disaster Days, wrap ups
Pics, or it didn’t happen, right? 🙂 October was a whirlwind of bookish events, and I’ve had a great time introducing The Disaster Days to readers. Here are some photos from my launches in New York and Wisconsin and other places I’ve shared my book:...
by Rebecca | Oct 21, 2019 | books, fiction lessons, In Case of Emergency, readers/reception, resources, Sourcebooks, survival stories, talking about writing, teachers are the best, The Disaster Days, this is how we read it
The Disaster Days may be fiction, but natural disasters–like the major earthquake Hannah, Zoe, and Oscar experience–are sadly real. Young readers might have a lot of questions, and some concerns, after reading their story, so I’ve put together a few...
by Rebecca | Oct 16, 2019 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, blog touring, book people, everyone's a critic, gratitude, In Case of Emergency, middle grade, readers/reception, reviews, Sourcebooks, survival stories, teachers are the best, The Disaster Days, this is how we read it, warm fuzzy, wrap ups
The Disaster Days has been making its way around the blogosphere and Bookstagram, and I’m so grateful to the reviewers, bloggers, and bookstagrammers who’ve taken the time to read and then write such thoughtful reviews! “Really, really enjoyed...
