While I prefer to read bound books (the kind that pile up on every shelf and flat surface in my home), I do collect digital books on my electronic reader … and listen to them while I do odd jobs around the house (laundry, dusting, and the like). My current “listening” book is Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head by Lauren Oliver and H. C. Chester, a middlegrade adventure that mixes misfits and mystery.
I’ve enjoyed it so much, I’m added the sequel to my To Read list!
My inbox exploded! That moment when it’s your turn in your printer’s queue.
I’ve been waiting for these alerts. This email burst represents a pile of minor tweaks to the Byways print editions. Continue reading Adventures in Indie Publishing
Moonbeam Children’s Book Award. Guess what came in the mail last week! I couldn’t make it to the awards ceremony in Traverse City, Michigan, so the Jenkins Group mailed my award packet. Byways received an award in the “Best Book Series – Chapter Books” category!
“The Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards are intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators, and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading. The Awards recognize and reward the best of these books and bring them to the attention of parents, booksellers, librarians – and to children themselves.” Continue reading Award Winning Series
Aurelius stole onto a rocky outcropping above the buck, blades drawn, muscles taut, poised to leap. It was impossible not to acknowledge the hunter’s own unique nobility. Although Freydolf would never cater to the other man’s ego by telling him so, he’d often thought that this Aurelius—the one stripped of all his ruffles and refinement—was worth sculpting.
—MEADOWSWEET by C.J. Milbrandt
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2016 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award
“Best Book Series – Chapter Books”
Byways by C.J. Milbrandt
illustrated by Hannah Christenson
Bronze Medalist
Those who met Ganix found him impossible to dislike. Those who knew Ganix found him impossible to trust. His pranks were legendary, and his curiosity was always leading him into some kind of trouble. Thankfully, he was also very lucky. His mother said it was because on the day Ganix was born, a lady bug landed on his nose and blessed it.
—ON YOUR MARKS: The Adventure Begins (Byways #1)
After finishing Book 2, I launched straight into the third volume of Henry H. Neff’s The Tapestry series—The Fiend and the Forge. So far, I Continue reading #amreading: The Fiend and the Forge
Let’s take another peek behind the scenes! Book #8 in the Byways series brings us back around to Ewan, who takes a wrong turn and winds up on the wrong mountain. A late spring storm strands him and the girls in a town that has a fine inn, a steamy bathhouse, and a secret. When Tamaqua and Juniata disappear Continue reading BYWAYS: Behind the Header
Doves abide while eagles soar,
but both build nests.”
—HARROW by C.J. Milbrandt
From the author of Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy. I caught wind of a new release from the author of a book I read a couple years ago. Karen Foxlee’s setting in Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy was intriguing, and I liked her spunky asthmatic heroine. I still quote her. “Bring your brain to the party.” Foxlee’s latest adventure promises more mysterious magic. I’m excited to curl up with this one. #BoughtIt
On a completely unrelated note, I keep
trying to spell her last name as Floxlee.
I can’t imagine why.
