Roland Smith


Great Email from Timothy Driggers 2

MR. SMITH, what’s up brother?  My name is TIMOTHY DRIGGERS. I am the school bus driver in Hillsborugh County Florida that received the Celebrate Literacy award. This award has never been given out to a non-instructional employee in United States. A lot of awards followed. All because someone left a […]


Contest #8

Contest #7 is over and the winner has been notified.  This brings us to Contest #8, and you to another chance to win a free signed book.  I’m working on the third Cryptid Hunter book in this last month of the year, so it seems appropriate to have a question […]


Contest #7

Contest #6 is over and winner has been picked.  I will be sending out an autographed book to them today or tomorrow.  This leads us to Contest #7 which happens to coincided with my birthday MONTH.  (Yes, I celebrate the whole month of November…one day has never been enough for […]


Desplaines, Barrington, Elk Grove, Illinois 1

I had a fabulous 4 day visit to Illinois last week… Friendship Jr. High with Trish Bowman, Station Middle School with Kathy Hempel, Grove Jr. High with Merry Lee (and a life size duct tape elephant and dozens of smaller elephants), Barrington Middle School (Prairie) with Mary Stek. The teachers […]


Who wants to be a librarian? 2

I’m on my way to Illinois today to visit schools near Chicago.  I’ll be picked up at the airport by my good friend Kathy Hempel who has the coolest ‘how I became a librarian stories’ of all time.  A few years ago Kathy was a library aid.  She wanted to […]