Debbie Dadey's Blog: Congratulations! - Posts Tagged "children-s-books"

Ga Ga! Yep, that's how I was when I met Mary McDonough (who was Erin on the Waltons) at the Southern KY Book Fest. I loved the Waltons growing up and was sure that I would have at least eight children growing up! (Then I had three and came to my senses.) Mary was so nice and very normal! Her book, Lessons from the Mountain, sounds so interesting. This weekend I'll be at the Albany Children's Book Festival and I'm giggling to think of all the authors I'll get to met. I've never been to this festival and I'm tickled that they will have advance copies of The Lost Princess for sale.

Hope you'll join me today, Sept. 12th, at 1:00 pm Eastern for a live interview about writing, my newest book, and life! http://www.blogtalkradio.com/storiesf...

Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway for Dream of the Blue Turtle. If you are a teacher or homeschool, I hope you'll enjoy my turtle craft ideas on Pinterest and my complete teaching units on website.

If you live near Clinton, NJ I hope you'll stop in to say hi at the Clinton Book Shop today at 4:00.

It has been a terribly rough month. My mother passed away in a car accident. I was right beside her when she died. So please forgive me for being a bit delayed in getting my give-aways sent out. Thanks to the 559 people who requested free copies of A Royal Tea, Mermaid Tales #9. I wish I had copies to send to all of you instead of just the five winners. I will send them out today! Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. If you live in the NJ/PA/NY area hope you'll swing over to Sparta Books in Sparta, NJ tomorrow at 11:00. I'll be there doing a booksigning and would love to say hello. Wishing you much happiness.

Congrats to John, Jackie, Melanie, Daleine, and Eric for being winners in my Goodreads giveaway of A Tale of Two Sisters. If you enjoy it, I hope you'll share nice comments here on Goodreads. Stay warm and happy reading, Debbie

I hate being unorganized, although you'd never tell it from the state of my desk. Stacks of files, random papers, receipts, water glass, scanner, pilers, and even a screwdriver combine with other junk to make the fall scenery on my desk. I need to get organized, but I need to write more-so I put the post-move organization off to another day. But I know there will come a day when I can't stand it any more and I will have to put things away. But perhaps not this week-on Friday I'll be in my home state of Kentucky for the Kentucky Book Fair's Children's Day from 9-2, speaking at 9:15 (hope to see you!). On Saturday, I'll be back in Tennessee at the Etowah Arts Commission's Young Author's Conference. Sunday is a day of rest and then Monday-perhaps a day of organizing? But, I really want to write the next chapter of my current story so I'm thinking maybe my desk isn't so messy after all!