classic?

Journey to Mythaca is keeping some good company these days.

Food art

This year's Food Art party was one of the best ever.

Ammar and Zelda

Ammar is relaxing in the garden.

Zelda joins him.

I think they are falling in love.

Reading group guide

It's up!

Joy!

A few minutes ago Willa Correnti called to tell me that my book arrived and that she loves it! "I love what it looks like, what it feels like, and how it reads," she said. "I'd like to put it in the window."

So now I'm packing up half a dozen copies to send to New Voices! I think Magellan and Paracelsus will enjoy being in New York, especially tucked away in a little book shop the East Village.

Hurray!

book groups

Now that I have a book group guide together, I'm working on having setting up more book groups. I put an online one up on belief.net but considering how hard it is to find on the site, I can't imagine that I'll get the requisite 12 people to sign up.

The group that has the most potential to happen is the local one I'll set up through the Novel Experience. So that's my next job: to make a sign for the checkout there.

reviews!

June and July will be good months for print reviews of Journey to Mythaca: one is coming out in the June/July issue of a homeschool magazine in Great Britain, and another will be in several small town weeklies in Marin County and the local free monthly here.

Today I'll write to the independent bookstores in Marin. I wish I could visit them in person with my basket of books but there's no time this month.