What a great time we had this past Saturday! Our local newspaper, along with the Literacy Council, PBS, and a local preschool organization hosts a reading festival every year at a local mall. Schools are invited to attend and provide the visiting children with a variety of activities, while authors are invited to share their books and talk with the children and families. It was a record day as reported by the organizing party! Close to 600 hundred children attended the four hour event.
Since my latest children's book, The Smith Family's New Puppy-Helping Children Cope with a New Family Member, utilizes my own animals as the characters, I had two of the "characters" attend to help promote. They were quite the attention getter's and many didn't even realize they were real until they saw them move. Trevar our Scottie and the adopted character in the story, sat proudly as passersby talked to him. Since we lost Hanna last year, I brought Rori our young Westie along. Darby (the other Westie in the story) is very shy as I adopted her when she was 2. She doesn't like to be in strange places so she stayed at home with puppy Maddie.
I was so proud of the dogs as people commented on how quiet and well behaved they were. Of course it gave me a good forum to promote dog training classes as well. Hanna, Trevar, and Rori have always accompanied us to shows and are quite used to the hub bub, so they enjoy sitting perched on their table taking in the scenery. I now look at little Maddie and wonder if I will ever get her to the same point as the others. You know how puppies are-short attention spans and highly distractable.
It was kind of cute to see people look at the book, then look at the photo of the dogs on the table, and then with surprise, look up and actually see two real dogs. The book store actually asked me to bring them to a signing if we can set one in before the holidays. So I guess, dog training pays off.
We met a lot of people and sold a good amount of books. The publicity for the event was fantastic and I believe there were at least 12 other authors in attendance as well-great for the children to see so many writers! It was a great day and I was honored to have been a part of it. I think the dogs enjoyed it as well.
Oh I forgot! I had quite a few old friends stop by, ones that I hadn't seen in years-so it really was a great day!
Since my latest children's book, The Smith Family's New Puppy-Helping Children Cope with a New Family Member, utilizes my own animals as the characters, I had two of the "characters" attend to help promote. They were quite the attention getter's and many didn't even realize they were real until they saw them move. Trevar our Scottie and the adopted character in the story, sat proudly as passersby talked to him. Since we lost Hanna last year, I brought Rori our young Westie along. Darby (the other Westie in the story) is very shy as I adopted her when she was 2. She doesn't like to be in strange places so she stayed at home with puppy Maddie.
I was so proud of the dogs as people commented on how quiet and well behaved they were. Of course it gave me a good forum to promote dog training classes as well. Hanna, Trevar, and Rori have always accompanied us to shows and are quite used to the hub bub, so they enjoy sitting perched on their table taking in the scenery. I now look at little Maddie and wonder if I will ever get her to the same point as the others. You know how puppies are-short attention spans and highly distractable.
It was kind of cute to see people look at the book, then look at the photo of the dogs on the table, and then with surprise, look up and actually see two real dogs. The book store actually asked me to bring them to a signing if we can set one in before the holidays. So I guess, dog training pays off.
We met a lot of people and sold a good amount of books. The publicity for the event was fantastic and I believe there were at least 12 other authors in attendance as well-great for the children to see so many writers! It was a great day and I was honored to have been a part of it. I think the dogs enjoyed it as well.
Oh I forgot! I had quite a few old friends stop by, ones that I hadn't seen in years-so it really was a great day!
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