So my trip to St. Louis was wonderful!

I got to meet Cole Gibsen, an old friend on QueryTracker, and Antony John, who shares the same publisher with me (Dial/Penguin.) He also has a delightful English accent!

I make weird faces when I'm talking.And here is Sarah Bromley, who is also an old QT friend! Our QT names are Senshi (Cole), Magpie (Sarah) and MeddyK (me).
Add captionAntony's books are the Elemental series, and Firebrand is his latest!


Cole's new book just came out! It's the third in her Katana series.


And Sarah's book, A Murder of Magpies, comes out in September with Month9Books. I saw the cover and it is fantastic! It was so cool to chat with Sarah and Cole, after being on QT for a few years!

On Friday, I did a few talks for the students at Hazelwood West High school for their Writer's Week and it went great. Even though speaking to this group was a little intimidating:

Yep, the Principal and Superintendent were in the front row!I'm relieved it all went well. I only had one bad coughing fit on stage, gah!

I hope you all are doing well. Got any plans for this lovely spring weather we're having?