We were on TV and Space with the "Greats"

Yes, we were! How exciting, at least for me. I had emailed and phoned a local TV station that has a Saturday morning show back in December. I finally heard back from them the second week of January. I received the call on Wednesday and they wanted us to be on that Saturday. Wow, just about put me in a tailspin! While this wasn't really something I had ever wanted to do in my life, the opportunity occurred.

Driving to the station on Saturday morning, Richard informs me that he has been on TV before! Well, many sides to this fellow. While doing the craft show circuit a few years ago, he had been on TV multiple times. It was a fun morning and I held up even with the "jelly legs"! It was a good thing that I got to sit down while doing the interview!

Currently, we are still pursuing other avenues for our book. We are going to be part of a literacy day at a local state university this March, we have a book signing coming up within the next few weeks, and finally the WOW event.....Richard's work has been accepted at the Mazza Museum in Findlay, OH! For those of you unfamiliar with this museum, it is a pretty prestigious honor! His work will be among those of other fantastic illustrators like Jan Brett, Marc Bown, Eric Carle, Steven Kellogg and Chris Van Allsburg just to name few. We are also kicking off a presentation there this fall with our book "The New Blue Tractor".

Things are also rolling along with our second book. We have a potential layout finished and Richard has begun working on the initial sketches of the pages. I am still messing around with some of the text but it is essentially finished. We met last week with an insightful gentleman about this whole process of pond-building. I certainly don't want to make any technical errors! It was fascinating to learn all of the "ins and outs"!

Keep "plowin' into reading"!
Stacey
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