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Sliding toward December means launching the new tale for tweens I’m cowriting with Rosie Russell is just a few weeks away. We started collaborating on Just Between Sam and Me in February 2018, and we're over the moon to share our book with you at last. Read on to...
Stay tuned for our Dec. 2 launch, with links to your fave print and digital booksellers posting here on Cat’s Corner and across social media. 
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Star by Irene Jahns - from "Just Between Sam and Me"
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Initially, we planned that our main character, 11-yo Olivia, would focus on her beloved Palomino, Star. We though her efforts to show him at the Spring Daze Equine competition would be the driving force behind our plot. Nope. |
Feline over Equine
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After our first readers looked over our story, they told us they couldn’t get enough of Olivia’s cat, Sam! |
Sam by Irene A. Jahns - from "Just Between Sam and Me"
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Journaling to a Cat
Sam evolves into
Olivia’s confident and comfort
as she pours out her heart to him
in her journal.
Olivia’s confident and comfort
as she pours out her heart to him
in her journal.
These 13 journal entries to Sam were super-fun to write.
The journal also allows us
to insert age-appropriate
punchy visuals and language,
so kids
have fun
reading!
These 13 journal entries to Sam were super-fun to write.
The journal also allows us
to insert age-appropriate
punchy visuals and language,
so kids
have fun
reading!
Your Turn
Rosie and I are beyond grateful for your company
over these past months
as we’ve worked to bring Sam and Olivia to you.
If you enjoy our book trailer
and learning more about our writing journey,
please
share this post with your friends.
Thanks!
Y'all come back on 2 Dec
when Just Between Sam and Me debuts.
Available in print and digital
Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble and Kobo.
Details posting here
and on all our social media sites.
See you soon!
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Art - "On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt," by Claude Monet - https://www.artic.edu/artworks/81539, Public Domain
What do these
adult and children’s book titles
have in common?
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Serafina and the Black Cloak
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Giver of Stars
The Martian
Where the Crawdads Sing
How the Light Gets In
Little Fires Everywhere
Something in the Water
The Language of Flowers
Serafina and the Black Cloak
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Giver of Stars
The Martian
Where the Crawdads Sing
How the Light Gets In
Little Fires Everywhere
Something in the Water
The Language of Flowers
They all have a rich sense of time and place. From the Quebec village of Three Pines to Mars and North Carolina’s Biltmore Estate, the authors’ stories have you feeling as if you could jump into the pages of their book.
As a reader, I’ve always been drawn to books with strong settings. As a writer, I want to give my stories a vivid backdrop, too.
My last book for early readers, Sweet T and the Turtle Team, has a beachy, summertime vibe on the North Carolina shore near my home. My newest book for tweens co-written with Rosie Russell, Just Between Sam and Me, shifts to small-town America in Rosie’s home state of Missouri.
I have memories of this part of the world – attended college outside Kansas City; spent my first years teaching nearby – until I moved south for warmer winters.
Join me in a 6-minute, deep dive video behind the setting of Just Between Sam and Me. I'll show you how Rosie and I bring the sights and sounds, tastes and textures, of our setting alive for young readers.
Then meet my cowriter, Rosie Russell, in her Missouri home, as she reads aloud a chapter from Just Between Sam and Me.
Then meet my cowriter, Rosie Russell, in her Missouri home, as she reads aloud a chapter from Just Between Sam and Me.
Rosie Russell reads aloud
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Ride alongside our characters in a wintry scene in the American Midwest on a snow-packed horse trail, and see how an upstander gets a mean girl to back off in this sample chapter Rosie Russell reads for you on her website HERE
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Your Turn
Thanks for visiting Spring Hope with Rosie, Sam, and me. What books with strong settings do you love to read? Please share in the comment section.
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