Summer Friend: Friendly Book Nook, B&N, Scholastic

Friendly Book Nook, B&N, Scholastic

Climb aboard! The next stop on my blog tour is The Friendly Book Nook, hosted by Sally Riley. Sally provides an overview of the Violet Raines, then gives us her take on it. Check it out!

In other news, I met my online buddy Sandy Nawrot at the B&N book signing! We had much to talk about--books and our telephone-voting strategies to slip Adam Lambert into first place. Pictures and more in a later post!

Also, I spent fifteen minutes in heaven yesterday--oh, wait! I spent a few hours at the Scholastic Book Fair office yesterday and had a great time! Photos and more in a later post. Scholastic people are wonderful!

4 comments:

Sandy Nawrot said...: It was really so much fun talking to you and meeting you in person on Wednesday! I even kept you past your 7:30 ending time! We had fabulous results for our event that night. I then raced home and was rewarded with a safe Adam. Your latest blog tour stop gave a great review!; May 8, 2009 at 9:11 AM
Charles Gramlich said...: Book fairs. Yes, a little slice of heaven.; May 8, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Rena Jones said...: Sounds great, Danette!; May 9, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Stella said...: Will you be coming to New York, by any chance? If so, I'll try to swing by. If not, your book is on order for my library next year (both of them). Bonne chance!; May 9, 2009 at 8:31 PM

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