by Rebecca | Mar 4, 2015 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, audrey and alice, contests and giveaways, grits that are true, historical fiction, nerdiness, paperback, research, twitterpated, Uncategorized, WIPspiration, women's history Wednesday
I love March for a few reasons: daylight savings time begins, theoretically it stops being so cold, the Chicago River gets dyed green, and the official start of SPRING! But I especially love that March is Women’s History Month and we get to spend 31 days...
by Rebecca | Feb 25, 2015 | audrey and alice, books, covers, news, paperback, pretty pretty, Sourcebooks, Uncategorized, White House
I’m excited to share that When Audrey Met Alice will soon be in paperback! Personally, I love paperback books–they’re so much easier to read on the go (which makes up a lot of my reading time lately) and they are priced right for class sets, book...
by Rebecca | Feb 17, 2015 | Aladdin, AWESOMENESS, books, happy happy joy joy, New Leaf, news, Simon & Schuster, Summer of Lost and Found, Uncategorized
So you might have seen this in Publishers Marketplace (click to make big!): That’s right! The Summer of Lost and Found has a new home. And it will still be in bookstores in the first half of 2016 (right now, it looks like a May publication date). I am so excited to...
by Rebecca | Feb 15, 2015 | authors, blog touring, book people, Egmont, feel the love, Summer of Lost and Found, Uncategorized
Publishers Weekly had a great article about the next steps for some Egmont USA employees (congrats, Jordan, Alison, and Michelle!) along with information on Egmont’s Last List. The Last List is a publicity and marketing campaign for Egmont’s Spring 2015...
by Rebecca | Feb 4, 2015 | audrey and alice, book publishing, debutanting, deepthoughts, gratitude, heaven aka bookstores, libraries, mildly maudlin, school visits, teachers are the best, Uncategorized
My mom sent me this photo over the weekend of When Audrey Met Alice still on a B&N shelf, and I realized that it was a year ago that I first saw my book in a store. Today’s the actual anniversary of my pub date, 2/4/2014. It’s been a whole year! And if...
by Rebecca | Jan 26, 2015 | audrey and alice, gratitude, lets take this show on the road, libraries, news, OPLbery, school visits, teasers, Uncategorized
I’m so excited to share that the Ossining Public Library’s OPLbery Club awarded When Audrey Met Alice the 2015 OPLbery Medal! What an honor to be considered among the other finalists, and to hear that the OPL readers enjoyed Audrey and Alice’s story...