03/07/08--Here is a podcast about Multiplying Menace done by a student of the author of the blog Open Wide, Look Inside and The Miss Rumphius Effect. They are studying how to incorporate math literature into the elementary classroom. Wonderful job and thank you!

01/25/08--Just got through editing the mechanicals for Princess Peepers! It's going to be an amazing book for little girls!!!

11/07/07--Had fun doing a school visit. The children were so well behaved and loved all my books including the snippet I showed them of Princess Peepers!

03/10/07--Another school visit went very well. California has such smart students. It's great to know that children today love math! What a joy!

03/01/07--Preparing to do another school visit in Folsom with Empire Oaks Elementary for their Read Across America celebration! I'm very honored to speak at this event!

02/16/07--Just did a two-day school visit at Carl Sundahl Elementary in Folsom, California. The kids were SO bright and wonderful! What a great visit!

11/22/06--Just received an offer for a fiction humorous picture book by Marshall Cavendish! Just in time for Thanksgiving. Thank you, Lord!!!

9/05/06--I have finished a new Clue School Kids mystery by Innovative Kids.

3/31/06--There's an activity guide for Multiplying Menace. Press this link: Activity Guide

3/23/06--We just got word that we'll be moving to the Sacramento, California area this summer! We should be there for the next four years. I'm really looking forward to being a California girl!

2/24/06--Book Signing success! I had my very first book reading/signing at the Bookmark Library at Laughlin AFB. There were many children in attendance! We had so much fun! If you want to see more pictures, just press this link to my blog--Book Signing

2/9/06--Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin  is here! I can't believe how well it is selling already! It sold out of the hardcover on amazon for a little bit. Now they have more in stock. Wow! It's also out in paperback. Whoopie!

I made the front page of my hometown newspaper! How fun! Here's a link:

Del Rio News Herald--Sunday, July 31, 2005

My fiction story, Bread, Biscuits, and Pandas is here! It's about a little girl who visits her aunt in Guam. Auntie Ernestina's garden is not what Maria expected--it's even better! It's on page 30 in the August 2005 issue of Highlights for Children! Hooray! If you don't get Highlights, go to your local dentist's office. Tee hee!