Joy Preble's Blog, page 55

Don't normally post on Friday night, but today was the very first day that I got to see Dreaming Anastasia on actual bookshelves in actual stores! Plus my librarian at the school where I teach has surprised me with an amazing display that I caught her putting together this afternoon! She's also hosting a reception for me and will be giving away copies of DA to many students at schools all over our district. She is awesome!
Dreaming Anastasia out early on the New Teen Release shelf at the...

Luckily, school started Monday. Pre- Dreaming Anastasia release week is thus going rather quickly. It is hard to get too worked up about much of anything when you are beaten into submission by a forty-five minute after school inservice lecture on ADHD. Not that this is not important. Just that after teaching 3 90 -minute classes of 30 plus students each and supervising a prolonged homeroom during which one guy repeatedly observed that school sucked and that he was bored and could I do anythin...