JLG mail

I received a surprise package from my publisher over the weekend — the official selection letter for Happy Like Soccer from the Junior Library Guild, along with a JLG lapel pin and certificate with gold seal! Gold sure does make me happy :) Thanks to the Junior Library Guild for this wonderful honor. Really excited for Happy Like Soccer to be a part of their list~

JLG selection

I just found out that my forthcoming book, HAPPY LIKE SOCCER, is a Junior Library Guild selection! The book comes out in May, but wont be available from JLG till September of this year. Very exciting! Thank you, JLG!

JLG Premier Selection!

I recently got this letter in the mail stating that my upcoming book BUFFALO MUSIC ( written by Tracey Fern) will be a Spring '08 Junior Library Guild Premier Selection! I had to do a bit of research to find out just what this meant. It seems the Junior Library Guild chooses around 300 titles out of the 3,000 or so they review each year, and of those 300 there are a handful of 'premier selections'... And they then print their own separate edition of the book too -- not a bad deal at all! There haven't been any reviews for the book yet, but I am hoping that this is a sign of good things to come. BUFFALO MUSIC will hit shelves on May 19th!