Alyssa gets her cowgirl on...

 

Splintered and I are hitting the Texas Tour Circuit this Friday!

 

My heroine Alyssa and her skater-boy Jeb are actually already accustomed to Texas things. They're from a fictional Texas town named after Alice Liddell (whose middle name happened to be Pleasance). But rodeos and bowls of piping hot chili are all foreign concepts to the winged and wild Morpheus. Maybe Alyssa will lend him her hat to make him feel at home. It's not exactly her style anyway. ;)

 

I'm posting my event schedule below in hopes any of you living in or visiting the Lone Star State can come by and say "Howdy". I'd love to meet you and chat about reading and writing!

 

 

Houston Events:

Friday, April 19

 

6:00pm                                
Event @ Murder by the Book

 

7:00pm                          
TeenBookCon Welcome Reception @ Blue Willow Bookshop

 

Saturday, April 20

 

9:00am– 3:45pm
Blue Willow Bookshop’s TeenBookCon

 

San Antonio Events:

Sunday, April 21

 

10am-1pm
International Reading Association Annual Convention

               
2:30pm
Event @ Barnes & Noble

15900 La Cantera Pkwy, San Antonio, TX 78256
 

Austin Events:

Monday, April 22

 

7:00pm
Event @ BookPeople

 

Tuesday, April 23

 

6:30pm
Event @ Book Spot

 

Dallas / Frisco Area Events:

Wednesday, April 24

 

7:00 pm                                            
Event @ B&N
Stonebriar Center Mall
2601 Preston Road, Frisco, TX 75034 

 

Fort Worth Events:

Thursday, April 25

 

2:30-6:30pm
Texas Library Association Annual Conference

 

Friday, April 26

 

12pm-8pm
Texas Library Association Annual Conference

 

Saturday, April 27

 

Back home to good ol' Amarillo!

 

 

**Side note** I will be doing in-stock signings of SPLINTERED at several of the B&Ns in the cities I'll be visiting. So if you don't get to make the signings but would like a signed copy, call around and I'm sure you'll find a B&N that has them.

 

Hope to see some of you very soon!

Putting on my cowgirl boots and stepping out...

I'm guessing some of you popped over here in hopes to see me riding a mechanical bull. Sorry! Not today, although I might be willing to try that closer to my book's release date as a promotional event.

Hmm. On second thought, I'd like to keep my spine intact. ;)

I don't normally post on Fridays, except for Query Tracker Fridays, but I have a few exciting announcements to share before my weekend haitus.

First, I've been invited to take part in a joint blog where Texas YA paranormal authors hang out, write posts, and cross promote. The blog is called TeenShiver, and "will feature & nurture Texas YA books that make you shiver." (Thanks to Jordan Dane--one of our featured authors--for that excellent catch phrase!).  I'll be posting over there about twice a month, and during those weeks, it will be quiet here in the land of madness and whimsy. I'll give you a heads up when my posting days will be as soon as I know myself.

If you'd like to meet the TeenShiver authors, hop over to this link and say "howdy!" And anytime you're curious what's new over there, you can just click on the TeenShiver button on my sidebar (color coordinated to fit my blog's motif), and much like Aladdin, you'll be magically transported by magic carpet. Okay, you'll be transported via routers, servers, cell phone towers, satellites, etc... but it's the next best thing! And you don't have to worry about frayed edges. :)

My second announcement: I now have an official GoodReads author page. And Splintered even has a page of it's own where people can mark it as to read right now! And then wait patiently for ... oh, a year and a half-ish. :)

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This was so fun to set up, because it made me feel ... authorly. I know, it's not a real adjective, but what say we make it one for today? If any of you are on GoodReads, please friend me and I'll friend back! I'd love to see what you're reading.

And lastly, this Sunday (September 18th) I'll be hanging out at my good friend Mindy's blog: Writer Writer Pants on Fire, sharing my submission experience. So please drop in if you'd like to read a few behind the scenes details about my journey to finally snagging that elusive publisher.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a wonderful, restful, and safe weekend! And I'll see you again next week. :)