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The Dragon Heir is on sale!

I’ll be at Joseph-Beth at Lexington Green, Lexington, Ky, Saturday, August 16, 2 p.m. and at City Lights Books in Sylva, NC. Monday, August 18, 6 p.m.

I'll be back in Ohio at The Learned Owl Bookshop in Hudson, OH August 23, 11-1.

These friends and Heir fans helped launch Dragon Heir August 12 at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cleveland. Looks like a tough crowd!

But they warmed up as I spoke and read from Dragon Heir.

Followed by a book signing. The two kids I'm talking to are going into fifth grade. One of them has already emailed me to say he's finished Wizard Heir in two days.

Hope to see you at one of my upcoming events!

In reading blogs the past couple of days, many people have done a look back at 2007. I can't promise to be as detailed or even as deep in my own look back but here goes.

In early 2007 we bought a house in the over-priced market of the Silicon Valley. Which mean any time before that was spent looking for said house and packing and then moving. It was all consuming on many levels. I took most of the year off from writing to get it settled. And I fell in love with my house though the bonding process of getting settled and decorating. I bought an entire house of new (old) furniture (thank you craigslist.)

I read. A lot. It looks like 123 books (no picture books) but then not all of them were kids books. There were decorating books and gardening books and lots of books about airplanes. 

I ate too much of the wrong foods and didn't exercise enough. 

I spent a lot of time thinking about what I should be doing and not enough time doing it. 

I worried about a lot of things I probably shouldn't have worried about and will likely continue to do so. And I worried about some things that I always will (my kids) even though there is nothing I can do but love them and hope for the best.

I spent way too much time being miserable about having a day job. But I also spent a lot of enjoyable lunch times with work friends that make me smile and make me think. That alone makes out for the lousy food in our cafeteria.

I got to know a few new friends and got to know a few old friends a bit better.

I gave a few speeches, each one better than the last.

I realized that there are many things that I can't do or won't do or that I'm just not good at and told myself that it's okay. Here's hoping acceptance of all that will come in the next year.

Most of all, I woke up each day grateful to be married to my best friend and went to bed each night more in love with him than the day before.
If that was the only thing that happened all year I would consider myself a lucky woman.

Monday Artday: Glass, originally uploaded by psychopooch.

For this week's challenge-Glass. I've got fish on my mind lately. Maybe it's cuz the Mermaid Parade is coming up this weekend over at Coney Island.

Btw, I'm really liking the way illustrator and photoshop work together these days. This started out in illustrator. It was then imported into photoshop as vector so the reflection could be fine tuned.

These warm and wonderful days, that are ahead of us, and that we currently share ,bring to mind, the wonder, of a large glass, of something cool and refreshing.

two Images and two different meanings...



This is a combination print, and digital work.
Let me know what you think...