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Upcoming Dates * * * * * * * *
October 26, 2009 Who's the Villain? MidContinent Library - Boardwalk branch 8656 N. Ambassador Drive, KCMO 64154 7-8pm
November 9-16, 2009 To Be Announced Lee Summit School
District
November
11, 2009 "Sacred Mountain: Everest" MidContinent Library Homeschool Expo Midwest Genealogy Center 3440 S. Lee's Summit Road, Independence,
MO On stage at: 10:15 am
November 15, 2009 I Love To Write Day Johnson County Library Lecture and youth
writing exercises (location and time to be announced)
November 18, 2009 Who's the Villain? MidContinent Library - Blue Springs North branch 850 NW Hunter Drive, Blue Springs, MO 64015 2-3pm
December 18, 2009 Holiday Reading Kansas City Library
Plaza branch 4801 Main Street Kansas City, MO 7pm - 8pm (surprise appearance
from Santa and Mrs. Claus!)
2010 Appearances
March 10, 2010 Children's Literature Festival Ottawa, Kansas (time
to be announced)
March 13, 2010 Multicultural Literature Festival Mobile, Alabama (details to be announced)
April 14, 2010 Mid-Continent Public Library Blue Springs South Branch 2220 South 7 Hwy., Blue Springs MO 7:00pm - 8:00pm
April
15, 2010 Mid-Continent Public Library Dearborn Branch 206 Maple Leaf
Ave., Dearborn, MO 4:00pm - 5:00pm
May 8, 2010 Johnson County Library Central Resource Center 9875 W. 87th Street Overland Park, KS
66212 (time to be announced - early afternoon)
2009 Workshops and Author Talks
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 John Fiske Elementary Kansas City, KS
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Whittier Elementary Kansas City, KS
March 5, 2009 Read Across America Week Sunny Point Elementary School
March 9-10, 2009 Missouri Arts Alliance Fine Arts Education Days Jefferson City, MO
April 3-5, 2009 Missouri Writers Guild Conference Cape Girardeau, MO
April 10, 2009 Who's the Villain? MidContinent Library - Blue Springs 11am-12pm
April 17, 2009 Spring Hill Intermediate School Spring Hill, KS.
April 25, 2009 AACBWI First Annual Writers Conference Charlotte Hilton Hotel Charlotte, NC.
May 12, 2009 Who's the Villain? MidContinent Library - Antioch branch 7-8pm
July 12, 2009 Panel Discussion - Nonfiction in the Classroom. American Library Association Chicago, IL
2008 Appearances
Sunday, February 3, 2008 Youth Technology and Education Center African
American Read-In
St. Louis, Missouri
March 6-7, 2008 Gracemor Elementary 5125 N. Sycamore Kansas City, Missouri 64119
March 14, 2008 10am Elementary School Read-in
African Centered Campus Kansas City, Missouri
March 28, 2008 8:30am - 5pm Alcott Elementary School Tulsa, Oklahoma
April 2, 2008 4pm - 5pm Panel Discussion sponsored by English
Club/English Department McCoy Meetin' House Park University Kansas, City, MO
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10am Mid-Continent Library Grandview
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 7pm Mid-Continent Library Red Branch
Monday, April 21, 20086:30 pm Mid-Continent
Library Weston,
MO
Saturday, July 12, 2008 "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" Annual Breakfast With the Authors Reading Reptile Bookstore 9:30 am-noon www.ReadingReptile.com
Monday, July 28, 2008 Let's Talk Missouri! Country Club/Allen Bank Kids Club Raymore Financial Center 2-4pm
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Allen Village Charter School Pajama Rama 6:30-7:30pm
Thursday, November 20, 2009 Mother/Daughter Literacy Night (with fellow author Susan Schank) Foreign Language Academy 6:30-8pm
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2007 Appearances
March 15, 2007 Speaker
River Read Literature Festival
Park University
Parkville, Missouri
April 20-22, 2007
Missouri Writers Guild 92nd Annual Conference
St. Charles Convention Center St. Charles, Missouri
April 28, 2007
Keynote Speaker WriterHouse Writers Conference
Park University
Parkville, Missouri
May 4, 2007
What Do Writers Do?
MidContinent Library
- Platte City Branch Platte City, MO
May 6, 2007
Keynote Speaker
Columbia Writers Association
Columbia, Missouri
May 19, 2007
Kansas City Literacy Festival
On the Plaza
at Nichols and Jefferson Roads
Kansas City, Missouri
May 22, 2007
Winds of Change Radio Show
5:30pm on Gospel
1590 -- KPRT
www.secondwindcc.com
July 14, 2007
Breakfast with the Authors The Reading Reptile Bookstore
Kansas City, MO
www.readingreptile.com
July 15-21, 2007
Faculty Member Highlights Foundation 1-week Retreat Chautauqua Institute, NY www.highlightsfoundation.org Classes: Writing Early Readers, Editing
for Authors, Working with Packagers.
August 22, 2007
noon - 1:30pm Truman Medical Center (East) Lee Summit Road
Lakewood, MO
www.tmc.org
August 27, 2007
noon - 1:30pm Truman Medical Center (West) 25th & Holmes
Kansas City, MO
www.tmc.org
September 7-8, 2007
Early Reading Workshop Northern Ohio SCBWI - Annual Conference
Cleveland, Ohio
www.nohscbwi.org
September 25, 2007
Winds of Change Radio Show
5:30pm
on Gospel 1590 -- KPRT
www.secondwindcc.com
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 7:30 am - 11:30 am
Career Day Allen
Village Charter School
Kansas City, MO
October 27-28, 2007 F1rst Pages Writing and Revision Workshop Diastole House
Kansas City, MO (advance registration required.)
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2006 Appearances
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Thursday, February 16, 2006 11am-11:30am
J.S. Chick Elementary Read-In
Kansas City, Missouri
Friday, February 24, 2006 8am-12pm
Knotts Elementary ReadAthon
Kansas City, Missouri
Monday, February 27, 2006
7pm-8pm Delta Kappa Gamma
Board of Education Building (Next to Park Hill High School)
Parkville, Missouri
Friday, March 3, 2006 8am-4pm
James Lewis Elementary
Blue Springs, Missouri
Friday, March 10, 2006
River Read Literature Festival
Park University
Parkville, Missouri
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Kansas City Metropolitan Library and Information Network (KCMLIN) Childrens Programming Workshop
Independence, MO
Thursday, March 16, 2006 11am-11:30am
J.S. Chick Elementary Read-In
Kansas City, Missouri
Friday-Sunday April 28-30, 2006 Conference
Chairperson 91st Annual Missouri Writers
Guild Conference
Hilton Hotel - Airport
Kansas
City, Missouri
Monday, November 13, 2006 8:45am - noon
St. Charles Borromeo School's Children's Literature Festival
804 Shady Lane Gladstone, MO 64118 (816) 436-1009
Saturday, December 9, 2006 9:00am - noon
Country Club Bank Christmas Children's Event
Kansas City, MO
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2005 Appearances
Monday, February 7, 2005 and
Thursday, February 17, 2005
North Rock Creek/Korte Elementary
Kansas City, Missouri
Thursday, March 10, 2005
River Read Literature Festival
Park University
Parkville, Missouri
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Blenheim Elementary School
Kansas City, Missouri
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Reading First Celebration
Manuel Tech High School
Truman Road, KCMO
4pm - 7pm
I'll be signing copies of "A Mom Like No Other" at the Scholastic Booth.
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
11am-12pm, Story Hour and book signing
"A Pony to Love"
Barnes and Noble - Zona Rosa
8625 Northwest Prairie View Road,
Kansas City, Missouri.
Friday, October 7, 2005
2:30-4:30pm
Workshop Instructor:
"If I Knew Then What I Know Now"
Breaking into Children's Publishing - Fact and fiction
Maple Woods Community College
Kansas City, Missouri.
“If I Knew Then What I Know Now,”
Breaking into Childrens Publishing - Fact and Fiction
The workshop will cover the basics of writing for children -
determining genre, solicited versus unsolicited submissions, the
value of critiques, how to approach editors and agents, researching
the market, what happens before, during and AFTER the sale.
Participants are requested to bring two copies of the first 5-10
pages of a sample manuscript, the name of their “dream” editor, a
sample cover letter, and be prepared to discuss how and why they
chose (or want to target) a specific publisher. If time permits we
will read and discuss individual projects.
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Family Fun Night
Blenheim Elementary
School
Kansas City, Missouri 5:45-6:45pm
Monday, November 21, 2005
Reading is Fundamental
Faxon Montessori
Kansas
City, Missouri
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2004 Appearances
June 14, 2004
National Launch of Scholastic's new "Just For You" line
HueMan Bookstore
New York City, NY (Harlem)
September 25, 2004
SHOW ME AUTHORS: a Missouri Center for the Book Celebration
Kansas City Central Library,
14 W. 10th Street, Kansas City, MO
10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Children's Room features authors and illustrators, including Lisa Campbell Ernst (10:30am), Laura Huliska-Beith
(1:30pm) and Christine Taylor-Butler (2:45pm).
This is a pre-conference kick-off for the annual Maple Woods Writer's conference. These authors and many others (poetry,
adult fiction, etc.) will be featured throughout the library from 10am - 4pm.
October 19, 2004
4pm - 8pm, Educator's Night
Barnes and Noble - Zona Rosa
8625 Northwest Prairie View Road,
Kansas City, Missouri.
November 16-20
"Let's Book" Children's Book Week
sponsored by Children's Book Council and the Kansas City Library
Tuesday, Nov. 16
10:30 a.m
L.H Bluford Library
3050 Prospect Avenue,
Kansas City, MO 64128,
816-701-3482
1p.m.
Waldo Library
201 East 75th Street
Kansas City, MO 64114
816-701-3486
Wednesday, Nov. 17
10 a.m.
Southeast Library
6242 Swope Parkway
Kansas City, MO 64130
816-701-3484
1:30 p.m.
Trails West Library
11401 East 23rd Street
Independence, MO 64052
816-701-3483
Thursday, Nov. 18
10 a.m.
Irene Ruiz Biblioteca
2017 West Pennway
Kansas City, MO 64108
816-701-3487
1 p.m.
Sugar Creek Library
102 South Sterling
Sugar Creek, MO 64054
816-701-3489
Friday, Nov. 19
10 a.m.
Westport Library
118 Westport Road
Kansas City, MO 64111
816-701-3488
1:30 p.m.
Plaza Library
301 East 51st Street
Kansas City, MO 64112
816-701-3481
Saturday, Nov. 20
1 p.m.
North-East Library
6000 Wilson Road
Kansas City, MO 64123
816-701-3485
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