20% Off Book Sale & Salt Lake Comic Con

Fall is coming can you feel it? September for me is the beginning of a new school year, the start of the change in leaves, and hopefully some cooler weather. It also happens to be the month Salt Lake Comic Con holds it's annual event. A few have asked me if I will be at the show and the answer is: YES! However, I will not be running my own table this year.

Several people have asked me, "If you won't have a table, how am I supposed to buy your books?" I've got good news and maybe better news. My latest MG release, The W.H.O. Files: Potions in the Pizza, will be avaible for purchase at the Shadow Mountain Booth. So you can at least get a copy of that book at the Con. I do have a signing scheduled on Thursday (see schedule below) and you can have me sign it then or come find me at one of my other panels.

 

The better news about getting my books. I have created a coupon code for 20% off my books through the createspace store. Follow this link to find the listing of my books: https://goo.gl/4jX1E6 and enter the following code at checkout: 7T4XPGDK. If you order them now you'll have them in time for the show. I'm sorry I couldn't make them avaible for you there, but I hope this helps.

I'm participating a lot this year at Kid Con which is in SLComicCon. I'm a little nervous about it because I am doing my first ever reading of The W.H.O. Files there. I'm also doing my kickin' presentation with Ali Cross as well. I hope you bring the family by and see us. I'll make sure to bring my backpack filled with bookmarks to giveaway.

I hope to see you at the show this year. Below is my schedule. Please come try and find me. Hopefully at the signing which is an hour long (which might prove disastrous if I have to sit there without anyone to talk to the whole time). Thank you everyone for everything!

Thursday, September 21:
2PM: Signing at the Shadow Mountain Booth #1807
4PM: What to Watch on YouTube in Kid Con #155

Friday, September 22:
5:30PM: Reading Roost in Kid Con #155

Saturday, September 23:
4PM: How Kids Can Find Magic Through Writing & Illustrating in Kid Con #155 (with Ali Cross)
6PM: King Arthur in Context Panel 151A

Happy Book Birthday

I couldn't be more happy to share this book with the world. It came out on a crazy day, but I'm not fooling around, it's here! Thank you everyone for your love and continual support. Without you I wouldn't be able to write, which is what I love. Thank, thank you. This book is for all of you. Laugh out loud and enjoy the read.

Wanna play a quiz to find out which W.H.O. Files character you are? Click HERE!

You're Invited to Party!

SAVE THE DATE… Hey everyone! I want to let you know that I’ll be releasing my new book soon and I want to invite YOU to the release party. It will be at this fun new bookshop in Sandy, The Printed Garden, on Saturday, April 29^th at 1pm. I’ll have plenty of books there for you to buy, yummy cookies, exclusive W.H.O. File folders filled with games, and some extra goodies for coming out (everything is FREE except the books). I’ll post more information when it gets closer but I just want you all to write it down in your calendars. Have a great day!

A little about the book: Ten-year-old twins Ethan and Emmy’s parents have never told their kids what they do for a living. Then just before Halloween, Ethan, Emmy, and their best friend Jax discover a HUGE secret: could their parents actually be . . . witch hunters? Meanwhile at school, a new team of glamorous lunch ladies arrives on the scene, serving meals that taste way too good to come from a school cafeteria. There’s only one logical explanation: they’re witches, and the meals they serve are spiked with a dangerous potion! Why have witches come to Roosevelt Elementary? Ethan and Emmy have only one option if they want to save their school and find their parents: become witch hunters themselves.

Some Really Cool Updates

Where has fall gone? It is almost Thanksgiving and I have so much to tell you. I've had some HUGE changes happen recently and you should probably know about them.

The first announcement is that my newest middle-grade book with Future House Publishing, The W.H.O. Files: Potions in the Pizza, had its release date changed from October 2016 to April 2017. Why? It was selected by FHP's distributor to be their spring lead title. This means it will be getting more attention not only by the publisher but my their team of distributors. Hopefully they'll have a better chance of getting this book into your local bookstores. I'm all geared up and ready for that book to come out. So mark your calendars for April 1st, 2017. Yeah, NO JOKE! You can also pre-order the paperback already on Amazon by CLICKING HERE.

Another great thing that’s happened is I finally signed with an agent! This has been a long time coming but I can proudly say that I am now represented by the super-agent and new partner, Michael Bourret, at Dystel, Goderich & BourretLLC. I’ve known Michael for a few years now. We first met when I interviewed him for the Authors Think Tank Podcast during a Storymakers Conference in Provo, Utah in 2013. That was our ice breaker. The day after the interview I pitched a book to him. Since then I have been trying everything to win his favor. I’m happy we finally get to work together on something. Already it’s been a fun experience. This guy is brilliant and really knows his stuff.

So that’s about all I have to update you on right now. Right now I’m looking forward to the New Year and I’m starting to really think about the goals I want to set for myself as an author/illustrator on 2017. As you know, I’ve been an indie author for all of my current books. With the publishing of The W.H.O. Files I will become what's called a hybrid author (publishing both traditionally and non-traditionally). Making the switch from indie to traditional was hard. I’d become so accustomed to doing everything myself it was a challenge to let go on some things. I think a lot of my goals for next year will be embracing the traditional route. I don’t think this means I will no longer indie publish, just trusting it more.