I’m in Ohio for the week speaking at Elementary Schools just outside Columbus. This visit has been booked for at least two years, and it’s good to finally get here. I’m at Wyandot Run Elementary today with super librarian Ann Murnane. We started the day of with a staff breakfast. […]
Another great email and beautiful art from a talented young artist… Thanks Samuel! Dear Mr. Smith, Thank you for all the great books you have written. I wanted to share a painting my 12 year old son, Samuel did for a book report on Elephant Run this past month. As […]
I’m at Paris Middle School today speaking to 3rd thru 12th grade students with the very cool librarian Anne Canada. It feels like an international visit with all these names. Yesterday, on the way here, I drove by London, Arkansas. I wonder what the story is behind the big city […]
My last day in Greenbrier, AR and I’m at the Middle School with librarian Erin Shaw speaking to 6th and 7th grade. It was nice here yesterday, but it’s pouring this morning, bringing to mind Portland weather of which I’m being unfairly accused of bringing with me from the Pacific […]
I’m at Morrilton Intermediate school today with librarian Regina Erwin. I had breakfast with a group of students. After breakfast a few of them did book talks about my books. As always there was a lot of photo taking. I love the phrasing down here… Instead of: “Can I get […]
This morning I was with librarian Kelly Tapley speaking to 8th and 9th grade students at the Jr. High. They had great questions and very good manners. This afternoon I spoke at Eastside Elementary to an enthusiastic group of well read 4th and 5th graders. Their wonderful librarian Sara Havens […]
I was about ready to drift off to sleep here in Arkansas last night when I received a text from Marie with the thrilling news that I,Q won an Oregon Book Award. The OBA is kind of like Oregon’s version of the Academy Awards. I wish I could have been […]
This moring I was at Westside Elementary School in Greenbrier, AR with librarian Melissa Duncan speaking to 4th and 5th graders. We had a great time and I appreciated Melissa’s flexibility with the schedule because of my flight problems. In the afternoon I was at Wooster Elementary School​ with my […]
Left Portland early this morning. Got to Minneapolis only to discover that my flight to NW Arkansas Regional Airport was canceled. Me: Why? Them: Weather. I look out the window. Me: What weather? Them: It’s probably bad in Arkansas. I call my daughter (in Arkansas). Me: How’s the weather? Daughter: […]
I’ve gotten a a lot of emails the past week from readers who are a little confused about TENTACLES… Just to clarify TENTACLES is the sequel to CRYPTID HUNTERS. Can you read the novels out of order? Yes, but it would be better to read them in order. TENTACLES begins […]
