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The boxes arrived on Friday afternoon, but we were too busy packing for a weekend away to give them the attention they deserved. And so we piled the kids and blankets and toothbrushes and dog food (and dog) into the car and left the boxes behind. We relaxed a little,...
Our authors’ copies of the first two Cookie Chronicles books just showed up on the porch, but we haven’t opened them yet. When our first copy of our first commercially published book Ten Thousand Stories arrived eight years ago, we waited a week to open the box....
In which a new book arrives, luminosity is appreciated, and Robbi is surprised by things she has done in the past.
We are thrilled (and a little bit shocked) to find The Real McCoys featured on the soaringly popular A Mighty Girl Blog on the occasion of National Siblings Day.
We've been told that today is National Siblings Day! So... Happy National Siblings Day! To celebrate, Macmillan is giving away ten free copies of The Real McCoys, which we have signed and stamped with our shiny schmantzy Barn Edition seal, comme ça. Look...
One of the most exciting and vexing and challenging and time-consuming parts of making a book is coming up with the cover, because no matter how many times we're cautioned not to judge a book by it, the cover is that first impression we can never shake. And so a whole...
One of the great pleasures of publishing a book is the chance to plant a dedication in the front, to express the gratitude you feel to the people whose contributions made that book possible, through help or inspiration, and oftentimes both. We dedicated Babies Ruin...
Robbi is a raccoon. By which I mean, she comes alive when the sun sets and kicks into full gear when the most of us are ready to climb into bed. Her natural creative sweet spot is 10:00pm -2:00am. We've known this for a long time, but in the interest of spending time...
Hello, friends. Our first heavily illustrated, beautifully printed, funny and heart-warming whodunnit of a kid novel The Real McCoys comes out in two short weeks. Robbi and I are extremely excited but are also trying to do whatever we can to help this book we love...
