Will Rogers Medallion Award!

I was tickled to learn that The Year We Were Famous won the 2012 Will Rogers Medallion Award for young adults. It was a good thing I had Clara and Helga's true story to work with because I never could have made up such bold and persevering women, nor imagined that they could have survived the blizzards, blisters, flash floods, and everything else they encountered between Mica Creek and New York.

I am also lucky to have such great writing friends, among them the eight other YA authors I get to appear with at Northgate (Seattle) Barnes and Noble on July 27:

Megan Bostic, Never Eighteen

Jennifer Shaw Wolf, Breaking Beautiful

J. Anderson Coats, The Wicked and the Just

Helen Landalf, Flyaway

Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood

Diana Renn, Tokyo Heist

Marissa Burt, Storybound

I haven’t read all their books yet, but I plan to read them soon!  Helen, Megan, and J. Anderson (aka Jillian) and I will also appear together August 13 at Everett Public Library  where my daughter, Emily Dagg, is head of children’s and young adult services. We’ll be part of a series on dream jobs, and on days like the one I found out about the Will Rogers Medallion it does seem like writing is a dream job. 

Schedule of Events

July 19 Daughters of Norway National Convention
Lakeway Inn
714 Lakeway Drive, Bellingham, Washington
Program on The Year We Were Famous and Selling Books

 July 27 - Barnes and Noble, 6:30

 Northgate Mall, 401 NE Northgate Way # 1100

Seattle, WA

Program and book signing with 8 other YA authors

August 13 - Everett Public Library, 7 p.m.

Dream Jobs - a panel of YA/MG authors
2702 Hoyt Avenue Everett, WA 98201

Books to be sold by University of Washington Bookstore

Joint Book Clubs on Orcas Island

Darvill’s Book Store Details to be announced

September 23 - Northwest Bookfest

Kirkland, WA 

Panel on YA fiction - details to be announced

October 7 - Write on the Sound Writers’ Conference (9:15 - 10:30 a.m.)

Teaching a class: Fact into Fiction

Frances Anderson Center

500 Main Street, Edmonds, WA

Books sold by Edmonds Book Shop

October 19-21  - Women Writing the West Conference

Albuquerque, NM

 TYWWF has been submitted for their WILLA (Willa Cather) award

Author signing

November 16-17 - National Council for the Social Studies

Seattle, WA

Presenter - details to be announced