This Saturday—on June 3, at 2:00 p.m.—I will be the featured author at Vassalboro Public Library’s Summer Reading Festival. There will be food, African Drumming, a book fair, crafts, and Maya and the Book of Everything.
I’m so looking forward to this. East Vassalboro and the Vassalboro Public Library are key elements in my book, and how wonderful it will be to go there with my presentation about using real life in a fantasy novel.
While I’ll be highlighting the real places I used—Waterville as well as East Vassalboro—I’ll also be reading a section where Maya has her eyes peeled by the giant Toad Queen.
Nothing like a little eye-peeling to pique interest in my book 😉
Notes From the Hinterland 
That sounds like a lot of fun and we wish you a very happy time there! :o)
Thanks so much!
Wow – sounds like a great presentation. You know I’d be in the front row if I lived anywhere near! I’ve always been fascinated by the relationship between real life and fiction.
So wish you lived close enough to come!
: ) me too!
Well, you’ll be there in spirit!
I am in charge of the Friends of the Hartland Library yard sale that day or I would come. I will be there in spirit and look forward to hearing about the event. Enjoy!
Oh, so sorry you can’t come, but best of luck with the sale.
Enjoy
Thanks, Derrick!
I wonder what the listeners will think of the eye-peeling– it was pretty intense, a leap of faith for our heroine!
A leap of faith for Maya, that’s for sure! One of several that she had to make 😉
Eye peeling! That should do the trick! Best of luck and have a glorious day on Saturday!
Thanks, Clare!
My pleasure, Laurie.
Excellent! Your book is at the top of my winter reading list! Well done, Laurie!
Thanks so much, Denise!
Congratulations, Laurie!
Thanks so much!