Owlets

Saturday morning I got to visit with the kids in the Owlets Book Club, at The Owl’s Nest Books http://owlsnestbooks.com/. The kids oohed over the length of the manuscript and the oddity of seeing a bookcover without the book, and were a little weirded out by the spirit man. They had great questions about Feather Brain, and particularly liked it because it’s about dinosaurs, and takes place in Calgary. I’m hoping from some great contest entries from them.

I received a gift card as a thank you, and immediately spent it. I love a good book store!

Maureen

Contest

After a couple years without, I’m holding another contest for my website www.howweirdcanyouget.com. Several schools in Lethbridge are using Feather Brain for a One School One Book program, and I wanted them to be able to send in entries, plus I’ll be at several other schools that might want to participate.

The rules? Anyone can submit, but only kids can win. Send in an idea for a magic spell for Griffith the wizard to work on. He’ll chose his favorite, and send the winner a small leather-bound notebook for their own spells, and a signed copy of Feather Brain (or another book if the winner already owns Feather Brain).

Past winners and honourable mentions can be found on the website, if you want to see the awesome ideas kids have sent in previously.

The contest will be open until May 1, 2012.

Maureen

Lethbridge

I took the spirit man (from Cursed!) to Lethbridge, and introduced him to hundreds of kids. They loved him, especially his fat belly.

He claims he didn’t enjoy it and is looking pretty grumpy, but I think secretly he enjoyed being a star.

Maureen