Several orders of business today! First off, the randomly selected winner of an arc of The Sound of Life and Everything by Krista Van Dolzer is… **** Becky! **** Congrats, and happy reading! If you didn’t win, you still don’t have long to wait to read the book, as it comes out a week from today. You can… Read more »
The Stars of Summer
THE STARS OF SUMMER blog tour kicks off!
The Stars of Summer is a little over a week away from hitting the shelves, but its blog tour kicks off today! A whole bunch of generous kidlit and food bloggers will be posting reviews, interviews, recipes, and more over the next couple of weeks, and I’ll do my best to round up the links daily here…. Read more »
And the winner is…
Thanks so much to everyone who entered my giveaway for signed copies of All Four Stars and The Stars of Summer. The randomly selected winner is… **** Diane Collier **** Congrats, Diane, and happy reading! But hark, that was not your last chance to win a book on this blog this week! Come back tomorrow to enter my giveaway of… Read more »
Crystal Kite finalist – and giveaway!
I got some great news this past weekend: All Four Stars is a finalist for an SCBWI Crystal Kite Award! This award is granted by fellow writers and illustrators in each of the 15 regions of SCBWI (the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators). We had amazing group of nominees in the southwest region, and I couldn’t… Read more »
Twitter giveaway–today only!
Hello, folks! Today only, on Twitter, I’m giving away a hardcover copy of All Four Stars AND an arc of The Stars of Summer to one lucky person! All you have to do to enter is retweet the status you’ll find at this link: https://twitter.com/TaraDairman/status/577438379941347328 This is part of the larger #mgMarch project, in which a different middle-grade… Read more »
And a one, and a two, and a one, two, THREE!
Exciting news to share this morning: There will be a THIRD Gladys Gatsby book, coming out in 2016! Here’s the announcement from my agency. I’m so excited that the foodie adventures of Ms. Gatsby and her friends will be continuing, and that I’ll get to work with my wonderful editor Shauna Rossano and her team at… Read more »
Panel pics, and winners!
Thank you so much to everyone who entered my giveaway celebrating the cover reveal for The Stars of Summer, sequel to All Four Stars! My editor informed me just this morning that the advance copies are ready, so two lucky winners will be getting their signed copies very soon! And those winners are… Elizabeth and Ann Buckley! Congratulations!! In other news,… Read more »
Today!
…is my farewell post over at Emu’s Debuts. My time as a debut author is drawing to a close, so it’s time for me to move out and make room for some new hatchlings. What an extraordinary run it’s been. My farewell includes links back to some of my favorite posts over the last two years. …is… Read more »
Sequel title & cover reveal: THE STARS OF SUMMER!
Recipe for a delicious sequel to All Four Stars: Take one ambitious (and now slightly more mature) heroine… Load up her lobster backpack… Pack her off to the very last place on earth where she wants to spend the summer… Assign her to review one of her least favorite foods… Wait for the stars to align…… Read more »