Come Fly With Me!

(I fully intended to send this update right after the 4th of July. But with the flooding in Texas and all those people lost…and the devastation, there was no celebrating. There was only hoping, praying, sending strength and energy.) We continue to hope with love and light.

Hello dear friends! If you are reading this, you are one of the reasons for this post. Because without you I would have given up writing—scratch that, don’t think I’ll ever give up writing…(I might have given up trying to get any of my scribbles published, though.) You inspire me! Imaging you reading my words, hopefully chuckling along the way I did when I wrote it. And maybe sometimes feeling that satisfied awwwwww.

So right now, I hope you’ll raise whatever your delight du jour and celebrate with me, because I have wonderful news!

At long last my newest picture book will be landing July 22nd!

Surprise!—it is not about baseball!

The ART! Let me tell you about the art illustrator K.M. Brown created to bring my words to life. It’s not like any of my other books—or many other picture books for that matter. It’s sort of got an anime vibe—as does K.M. (who goes by Katie.) Find out more about Katie from the Q&A she did a few months back. Katie spills secrets! Here’s the link to K.M. Brown’s Q & A.

There’s a lot of fun stuff on the Rainbow Kite page on my website. Along with K.M.’s interview there are book-in-progress sketches. And soon, there will be Activities, because my buddy, award-winning author Doris Fisher is creating them. And Doris is a puzzle wiz!

And YOO-HOO teachers and librarians…parents too. Coming soon is a Teaching Guide with crafts. Another buddy, award-winning author, Pinterest Guru Deb Gonzales, founder of PinLit, is bit-by-bit putting it together…

Rainbow Kite is available for Pre-Order now!  (And if you’d like a digital copy to review—we need those reviews—pop me a note.

And mostly . . . . Thank you for your support! Kelly always and all ways!