Enter to Win!!
Have you ever read a book before it was published? In manuscript form? I’ve read a few that fellow authors have written…some of them were in the really rough beginning stage and some were very polished and ready for print. Those I read to write reviews for the authors. I have a couple of scripts for TV shows, too. I have a script for the TV show Law & Order, SVU, and I think I have another for a different show, but I honestly can’t remember what it is. I received these as gifts from a friend who knows someone who knows someone, etc.
So you guys know-if you read my rambling little ‘blog…maybe it should be llog for library log’ page each week, you know I have been working to get my latest middle grade book, Criss-Cross, published. I still intend to do that, but I haven’t had time to work on it lately. So I still have it in manuscript form. Would any of you guys be interested in reading it in manuscript form, to see a book before it goes to print and looks like a book? I put this in a newsletter before Christmas, but I’m not sure how many of you saw it, since that newsletter was posted online and not handed to you. So enter to win a chance to read Criss-Cross as a manuscript and a paperback copy when it’s ready!
Fun Things of Note
| FYI: A friend of mine just got a Kindle, and she’s been downloading books from the Quincy Public Library…so just a head’s up if you or anyone in your family got a Kindle for Christmas, you can now download books from the Quincy Public Library! |
| Something Mrs. Peters said to me recently, when I opened my Kindle to read, while waiting to be called into an appointment and found it completely, 100% dead…’A real book would never abandon you’…So true…I had debated that morning about which to bring…The Kindle or the actual book I was reading. Obviously I made the wrong decision that day! Jimmy got a Kindle Fire for Christmas, and yes, he’s playing games on it and watching movies on it…but he has read a few books on it already. Apparently Elliot and The Goblin War and its sequel Elliot and The Pixie Plot are really good, because he had those read within a day or two of downloading them. They are both written by Jennifer Nielsen and you can find them on Amazon, if you’re interested. Also, I noticed a book in the latest Scholastic Book Order written by Jennifer Nielsen-The False Prince, the first of a trilogy. |
Mrs. Heikes is reading The Skeleton Creek series to her 6th grade homeroom. Jimmy is enjoying the books and videos so far. I know a lot of you checked them out immediately, but I’m wondering if you had enough time to actually finish them. They’re not moving so fast right now, so if you’d like to give them another shot, please do. They’re fun, exciting and just mysterious enough to be a little spooky!
What’s Rick Riordan doing these days??
I know a lot of you read Rick Riordan’s books. (I do, too.) Did any of you see him on TV a couple of weeks ago? Lexie saw him, but I can’t remember which TV talk show he was on. Apparently, fans will have to wait until May 1 for the next book in The Kane Chronicles-The Serpent’s Shadow.
Suggested Reading for the Week:
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