Thank yous and such

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Well.
Mercy.
I had quite a day yesterday.

Our book came out.

There was this awesome post at Jama Rattigan’s alphabet soup and this awesome interview
at 7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast.

There were these world balloons from my sister.

But the highlight was popping into a bookstore to do a little recognizance while my Tall One was at swim team.

(Does a book release mean that the book is actually out there, y’know, in stores?
Inquiring minds wanted to know.)

My Small One and I stole in stealthily.
We feigned interest in cookbooks.
We sauntered toward the children’s section.
We stopped and looked at the maps.

And then…
she spied it first.

I followed with my cell phone open:

Wahoo!

And just as I was about to buy myself a copy to celebrate, I ran into a woman I know who happens to be a teacher.
So she bought one!
For her class.
I signed it to Tina and the Golden Lions.

Wow.

Please let this serve as my official thank you note to Jama and Jules and Tina  and my sister and all of you who cheered and whooped and hollered with me. It made for a really, really, really special day.

Plus (as if that’s not enough), yesterday marked the launch of my brand new much improved way prettier and more functional web site!!!!

My very dear friend Shannon Lowry of Round Robin Press designed it in her lovely, whimsical and inimitable way (thank you, Shannon!)… my other very dear friend Sarah Bork Hamilton is the mighty fine eye behind the bio pic (thank you, Sarah!)… and  faster-than-a-speeding bullet Jenny Medford of Websy Daisy built the site (thank you, Jenny!).

I hope you’ll stop by for a visit and to sign up for my email list so I can keep you apprised of happenings.
Not like daily tweets or anything.
Just the very occasional happening.
That I think you might be interested in.
I promise…

 

32 Responses to “Thank yous and such”

  3. jamarattigan

    Love the new website! It’s fresh and gentle :).

    Your teacher friend was SO lucky you just happened to be in the store. How exciting that it was there :). I’m definitely gonna check our stores this week.

    Yesterday definitely was exciting, wasn’t it??!!

    • liz_scanlon

      Thank you, Jama! I feel like I was the lucky one to bump into the teacher friend. She was just one of my special launch day angels! (You, obviously, were another!)

  4. imcoolerthanu2

    Oh, I just read it. My favorite part is, “All the world goes round this way.” And how.

    My favorite little picture is the girl who is hungry and cranky on the next page, and I think my favorite spread is “All the world can hold quite still.”

    Lovely, lovely. It’s hard to pick out favorite parts of such a wonderful whole.

    • liz_scanlon

      Adrienne. Thank you.
      I’m so glad you like the tired, hungry, grumpy pages. I really truly think those are my favorite, too.
      Partly because Marla’s raindrops are so so perfect, but also just that the world DOES go round that way. At least mine does….

  6. rumphius

    The web site is lovely.

    I picked up my copy at our local indy today after school. Monday marked the fourth month without my dad and I’ll tell you, I thought about him as I read through the book. It did make me cry, but in a really sweet, how lucky I am kind of way.

    Thanks for this beautiful book.

  8. Anonymous

    Tanita Says 🙂

    Whoosh! My hair is blowing back from Website Awesomeness. IT. IS. GORGEOUS!!!!! Yay!