Hi Everyone! Long, LONG time no see over here at Live Journal! Yes, I've been blogging over at Blogspot. Please come find me there and "Follow Me"!!! : http://www.kimberleygriffithslittle.blogspot.com

I got permission last week to do a *Cover Reveal* for my Spring, 2013 book with Scholastic I thought I'd post it here because I'm doing a MAJORLY ( Read more... )

Hey everybody, how are y'all?

I'm pinching myself because I just received my first paid invitation to speak at a conference! And it's the perfect one. SIBA: SOUTHERN INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS ALLIANCE trade show on September 17th in Charleston, South Carolina!

Charleston: The city of the South, the Civil War, and Gone with the Wind! I have ( Read more... )

I love the whole review, but the last line made me feel pretty thrilled. Go Here to Read the Full Review! 

It's always intriguing to read the way different readers encapsulate a story, I personally love that aspect of reviews, especially when the reviewer is a good writer themselves and knows children's books so well.

"A Book and A Hug" is a ( Read more... )

I'm in it! Pages 32 & 78 - if you happen to have a copy! Wow, even though I've been in a Publisher's Catalog before, it is still such a thrill, I can't even explain it. I think, "It's real! My words are really a book! I'm an author - no way! Yes, way! My stories are going to be in bookstores and online and in Book Fairs!" People will be ( Read more... )

What can I say? It was awesome, overwhelming, wonderful, exciting, and I LOVED the people at Scholastic! They were so warm and friendly and helpful and took me under their wing. There were Scholastic publishing offices people there from New York City as well as Book Fair folks from around the country who man the offices and warehouses and ( Read more... )

My new book, CIRCLE OF SECRETS, will be pubbed on October 1, 2011 - in less than 5 months and I can finally share it with the world!!!


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  And THE HEALING SPELL is open game!

You can find the *exclusive* paperback of The Healing Spell for sale at your local elementary school's Spring Book Fair! Excuse me while I do some ***happy, excited, crazy-dancing***

The *official* paperback will be on sale September 1, 2011 . . . but Scholastic Book Fair folks showered so much *love* on the ( Read more... )

Shannon Messenger is the inspiration behind MMGM aka Marvelous Middle-Grade Monday and I've been wanting to jump into the mix!

When I first started writing, I wrote MG manuscripts (and it was the wonderfully marvelous and very prolific Rosemary Wells that personally told me I had a natural and distinct MG *voice* years ago at my very first ( Read more... )

In celebration of Valentine's Day I'm totally copying Christine Fonseca's post "Just Kiss Already" who is copying from Christina Lee's call for a smooching day to put a snippet of a love/kissing scene from one of our books or work-in-progress.

Dang, I love this photograph!


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I've debated for three months whether to be perfectly honest about what I've been through the last few months and I decided that it's not really that big of a secret (except that at first I was just so humiliated and depressed and trying not to think I was the world's worst writer ever).

AND my agent assures me that I am NOT ALONE. That this sort ( Read more... )