Author.Dragonfly Dreams, MG/YA fiction set in China during WWII.
Chattanooga, TN
Joined January 2010
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My book Dragonfly Dreams won the 2022 Benjamin Franklin Award, Gold Prize, for Young Reader Fiction! And Silver Prize for Book Cover Design!
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Annual McCallie Family Camping Trip coming up this weekend! More than 50 of us gather around the camp fire.
#camping #familyfun #Familylove
I spoke at the Houston Museum of Decorative Arts about #DragonflyDreamsbook. Since we were in Annie Houston's collection of beautiful objects I focused on 4 objects in my story that had significance, like the Monkey King bronze sculpture. Great fun. #BookTwitter #indie
Celebrating! #BookLaunch of #DragonflyDreamsbook 1 year ago. Thanks to all who believed in me and supported me and retweeted me. THANKS to the team at Koehler Books. Because of ALL you we are celebrating an award-winning book!
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t’s not an announcement yet . . . but coming soon! Grace In China is coming out again. I’ll let you know as it develops.
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The joy of discovery at a school in the forest happens ever day. #forest #school #discovery #learning @WauhatchieS
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You can’t come to the Author Showcase 8/25? then buy Dana Shavin’s book Finding the World: Thoughts on Life, Love, Home and Dogs—guaranteed laugh and deep thoughts in 2 min. #booktwitter @Stoveworks #Chattanoogafun
I'm excited to be one of the local authors reading at Author Showcase on Aug 25 presented by SoLit. #BookTwitter #bookevent #authors #Chattanooga
#DragonflyDreamsbook won the NIEA #bookaward in the category of FRIENDSHIP, recognizing this powerful thread that binds this #mgfiction of #WWII in #China through the #friendship of 2 mixed-race girls, Nini and Chiyoko.
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I'm talking tonight at Signal Mtn Library about writing after 50. Lots of people tell me they have a story to tell. Over 75 now, I assure you it can be done! I'll also be signing copies of #DragonflyDreamsbook, award-winning YA/MG fiction. #writersoftwitter #writing
I’ll be signing copies of DRAGONFLY DREAMS Saturday 4:00 at the Grand Opening of a spa by the same name, Dragonfly Dreams!
July 16
232 E. 11th St. (near City Hall)
Chattanooga TN
4-5:00
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Jeepers! Can't believe it!
#DragonflyDreamsbook has just won a NIEA Award! National Indie Excellence Awards for 2022. #BookTwitter #book #Awards #mglit This is 9th award this year!
It will be announced 6/9 that Dragonfly Dreams has won an IPPY. #2022ippyawards Given annually the Indie Book Publishers Award #IBPA recognizes "excellence in indie publishing." Silver award for Regional literature of the Pacific Rim. #book
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Sunflowers represent Ukraine resistance. This week a book club connected Dragonfly Dreams to the sunflower—the resilience and bravery of 10-yr-old Nini when Japan invaded China in WWII.
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