How to Make an Author Smile
Earlier this week, I trudged to my mailbox. There, amid the catalogs for clothes I don’t need and the flyers for food I don’t want to eat was a white Tyvek envelope, bearing my name and address. Inside the white envelope was a manila envelope. And inside the manila envelope was a *huge* sheet of paper, with a lovely message from Mrs. Lese’s third grade class, thanking me for helping them to celebrate their “Reader Leader” goal of 100,000 minutes of reading from all class members, combined, since the start of the school year. (Earlier this year, I attended their Reader Leader party, sharing bookmarks and postcards from DARKBEAST, and talking about my career as a writer.)
Every student signed the letter, and they used *cursive*! (And here, I’d just been reading this past weekend that no one was learning cursive any more!)
The thank you note made my day. I’m really looking forward to making more author visits when DARKBEAST REBELLION comes out in September!
Mirrored from Mindy Klasky, Author.