Books… “Who Pooped in the Cascades” took a silver medal in the Moonbeam Book Awards! 15 Oct 20145 May 2023 Until ten minutes ago, I had no idea that my most recent Who Pooped in the Park book was being considered for a Moonbeam award. Then I opened my email…
Books… “Who Pooped in the Cascades” is a High Plains Book Award finalist! 4 Jun 20145 May 2023 This is exciting! The High Plains Book Awards has added a new category this year for children's books, and Who Pooped in the Cascades? has been chosen as a finalist!…
Appearances Upcoming Appearances 2014 12 Feb 20141 Feb 2023 This spring and summer is lining up to have a wildly eclectic set of public appearances for me! So far, I have things scheduled all across my areas of expertise:…
Writing A new book, and a state-by-state look at the series 19 Aug 20131 Feb 2023 UPDATE: The information in this post is obsolete, but it's all been brought up to date in a new post from 2017. My 23rd book—18th in the Who Pooped? series—is…
Book Signings… I guess I’m one of the few… 15 Aug 20135 May 2023 In the bookstore today, a customer was looking at my big spinner rack of Who Pooped in the Park? books. He looked at the sign on the top, which shows…
Book Signings A few book signing observations from Yellowstone 29 Jul 201330 Jan 2023 Last week I made my annual pilgrimage to Yellowstone Park to sign Who Pooped in the Park? books. There are two concessionaires in the Park: Delaware North, which operates the…
Book Signings 7 book signing tips for children’s authors 2 Jul 20135 May 2023 There are a lot of things that are different for an author who writes books for children—especially picture books. I've talked about some of these things before, but I've never…
Writing Who Pooped in the Cascade Mountains? 25 Mar 20135 May 2023 A quick update: We are having some illustrator issues right now, and we're not sure what the release date will be for my 18th poop book: Who Pooped in the…
Writing A Square credit card update 27 Nov 201219 Aug 2013 Last April, I wrote about credit cards from an author/bookseller perspective. Since then, we've switched our credit card processing from a major bank to Square running on iPads, and invalidated…