It’s only half over, but October’s been such a busy month!

I went to the Great Lakes Booksellers Association Trade Show in Dearborn, Michigan, where I met the terrific Simon & Schuster book reps and hung out with the superfun picture book authors Lisa Wheeler and Kelly DiPucchio and terrific YA author Stephanie Kuehnert.

Then I headed off to LA to help out with the Wait Wait pilot. While I was there I saw the amazing YA author Paula Yoo, hot new YA author Ben Esch and his supercool screenwriter brother Doyle Esch.

Paula took me out on the town and we had a blast! She wrote about our night as Hollywood tourists in her blog.

To finish off the week, I took part in the Educator’s Breakfast at the Barnes and Noble in Deer Park, Illinois (and I only got horribly lost twice on the way there.)

I met their terrific community relations manager, Michelle Schmitz, and signed books along with three talented Chicago authors: Sara Shacter, Simone Elkeles, and Adam Selzer.

I’m exhausted, but it was all so much fun!

The Curse of Cuddles McGee is officially in stores! Get out your dancing shoes and go wild!

I’m having a book giveaway! The Curse of Cuddles McGee won’t be in stores for another month, but you can win an advance review copy now on the GoodReads website. To get more information and enter, click here:
Cuddles Giveaway
Update! Congratulations to Danielle in Massachussetts for winning the copy of Cuddles!