I am so looking forward to meeting a reporter from the Nanaimo News Bulletin tomorrow and to have a chance to sit down and tell her about the Mabel Hartley Stories and my journey to become a YA fiction author of these awesome books. I will also be stopping by one of the stores that […]
Oh, la la! I can’t wait until February when my first kit filled with Mabel stuff arrives. Just spent a few hours tonight figuring out merchandising. Maybe I will go back and get a degree in business after all. Or not! I’ll post pics when they come in the full line when it all comes 🙂
It was the most fabulous experience! Today, I started my day thumbing through an old atlas and decided to take it with me as part of my adventure into reading to a grade 4/5 elementary school class. I asked for a volunteer, actually, I asked for two, to help me locate the countries where my […]
It was a really great day. I visited with the librarian, Laura Boulton at our local elementary school and saw my books on shelves and donated two copies of my third book to their collection. For me there really is nothing and I mean NOTHING like seeing my books on library shelves. I think of […]
It’s been 9 years in the making and three books in my series later and finally I have a date at the library to introduce my books, formally, to our island and the world. This photo I took in the window of our local library and when I saw the poster for my books, I […]
Mabel Hartley the Mummy’s Cape arrived in paperback this week and she’s already her way with stops at the local library and four local stores on my island. Tomorrow we had down Vancouver Island for more book store stops and making connections with local book sellers. It’s a very momentous time, to work on a […]
One of my hardest things is self-promotion. I’m really good once I get going, but getting out of the gate is really tough for me. I don’t have swagger and I certainly don’t ooze confidence. So picking up the phone and talking to our island bookstore today, and arranging a meeting with the lovely Gloria, […]
Ok. This post is not about professing love for our leaders. I want to write instead about today. It was a good one, especially considering how I got home from dropping the kids and came home to a garage full of water and an hour with the shop vac to stem the flood from the […]
Sometimes changes comes imperceptibly and other times it’s like someone is standing at your door ringing the doorbell, waiting for you to answer. The ground beneath your feet has moved, almost while you slept. How do I know this to be true? Years ago, when I had two toddlers running around the house, crippling back pain, […]
I am the proud owner of an Instagram account I have a private French tutor and a conversation class every week I finished the line edit for my the first 4 chapters of my 3rd book I have two ad campaigns for my first two books on Amazon
J.E. Reddington 