Today I spoke to students at Lake Hamilton High, Jr. High, and Middle School in their beautiful High School auditorium. Their fabulous librarians Lori Bush, Jil’Lana Heard, and Jana Dutton could not have been nicer or better prepared. The students had great questions and had clearly read a number of […]
I’m in Hot Springs, Arkansas the next three days. Today I am with the very kind Tanna Clark, Library Media Specialist at Lakeside Middle School, speaking to 5th, 6th, and 7th grade students. Hot Springs is about an hour and a half south of Little Rock and is the boyhood […]
I was at two schools today in Cabot, Arkansas near Little Rock. Southside Elementary with Melissa Wilson where I spoke to K thru 4th grade. And Cabot Middle School South with Stephanie Collins speaking to 5th and 6th grade. Both wonderful schools with outstanding librarians. I’ve fallen right back into […]
Six weeks without living out of a suitcase,TSA, packing, boarding airplanes, which might be a record for me. I’m on my way to Little Rock from Pheonix via Memphis. I’ll be at schools in Arkansas all week, then Harding University Friday night and Saturday, then I head to Texas next […]
I’m back in the States for a couple of weeks to visit schools in Texas and Arkansas and speak at Harding University. On Christmas I got this nice email from Mandy with some questions about writing and the Cryptid Hunter series. Below is the email and Mandy’s questions… Dear Mr. […]
I’m putting together a rather long post from the Sea of Cortez, but while you’re waiting I though you might like to read this wonderful email from Julia R., 13, from Mesa, Arizona. Thanks Julia. You’re the exactly the kind of reader I write for. Dear Mr.Smith, Hello there Roland! […]
A little pre-Christmas round up… Don’t think it’s all writing and eating food down here. There are errands to run in paradise. Our Internet went out late last week. Of course we thought it had to do with the router we installed, but after reconfiguring it from scratch approximately 7,000 […]
It’s getting colder down here, especially in the mornings. The past couple of days it’s only gotten into the mid-sixties. I know, I know… I’ve seen the weather reports for the U.S. It’s probably a lot warmer down here than where you are, and that’s one of the reasons […]
We’ve been here for five days… Beautiful weather, although it was a little on the chilly side today with a few clouds, but they were gone by this evening. My routine is simple… Go to sleep early. Wake up early. Write all day. Repeat. I tend to move my writing […]
