1. 25 days until Pub Date - July 1!!! It doesn't seem *that* long ago that it was a year away. My, how time flies! It's interesting that the book was chosen to launch right before the July 4th Independence Holiday.

2. The final chapters in The Healing Spell take place during the Independence weekend. Those final scenes include danger by shotgun, a ( Read more... )

I HAVE COVER ART FOR THE HEALING SPELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's GORGEOUS! I'm thrilled and LOVE it - AND I CAN'T SHARE. Publisher's orders. They said NO showing off fabulous, wonderful, beautiful cover until we deem that it's time to flood the world and start officially buzzing!

How's that for a teaser? I will tell you that the art department took ( Read more... )

I heard from Gorgeous Editor this morning and she said that she is almost finished reading the revision of THE HEALING SPELL (Scholastic, June 2010). She called my rewrite "splendid" and said that she thinks it's ready to go to copy editing. Gulp. Hard not to panic when I want to look at it again!

But Gorgeous Editor needs to finish those last few ( Read more... )

And the book is gorgeously written and tells a wonderful, heart-warming, heartbreaking story with characters that are achingly real! (Caution: hot boy inside!)

The cover is FAB, too! And the author is a FAB editor! And she's MY EDITOR!!!


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At last - it's signed and in the mail and I'm getting around to posting pictures!

It's a strange and wonderful feeling after so many years and years and years  . . . I still can't *quite* believe it.

Maybe when the check gets here and I make that trip to the bank, ha, ha!


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Here is the official announcement!!! YAY!!!

CHILDREN'S: MIDDLE GRADE/YA

Kimberley Little's THE HEALING SPELL, a story of faith and redemption as a Cajun girl copes with secret guilt over her mother's coma, SECRET RITES OF THE GODDESS, pitched as the YA The Red Tent, a story of mysticism and the ancient desert, in which a girl's faith helps her ( Read more... )

I'M THROWING A BLOCK (BLOG) PARTY!!!


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