Meet the Author: Michelle Groce
February 7, 2006 - In the Library
Children's Authors and Illustrators Week is annually the first week in February. The website for it is http://www.childrensauthorsnetwork.com. As I was searching for more information about it online I came across another librarian's blog that had great tips. Visit http://cynthialeithichsmith.blogspot.com/2006/01/tips-for-childrens-authors.html to check it out.
I really wanted to have a young adult author come for a program during this week. However, with a small budget and attendance numbers that don't usually reach double digits I thought that it would be difficult. I looked at several authors but they all lived farther away and I was worried about the weather during the first week of February. If there was a chance of snow or icy conditions anyone coming from more than an hour away probably wouldn't be able to make it. Then I found a perfect candidate.
Michelle Groce is a young adult author who lives within five miles of the library. Novello Festival Press published her first book, Jasper, so copies of the book were available for sale and to check out at the library. Jasper is a book about a cat with a psyhic sense for danger, who has to make choices between helping others and helping himself. To read a review of Jasper, follow this link http://www.readersclub.org/reviews/tresults.asp?id=2154
Her website at http://www.michellegroce.com/ has lots of information also.
Michelle was willing and enthusiastic about doing a teen program at the library. She put together a powerpoint presentation that shared pictures of her cats and answered some of the most frequent questions that people ask about her book and being an author. After the presentation, we had a drawing to win a copy of Jasper, then Michelle answered questions and signed books.
There were several aspiring authors at this event. Michelle was very encourging but also realistic about writing. She said that it took her years and years to write Jasper and get it published, mainly because at first she was trying to write a murder mystery. "You have to write the story that is inside you waiting to be told, not necessarily what you think will sell well." Michelle was planning on writing a trilogy with the characters from Jasper, but got sidetracked by another story, titled If which she just finished recently.
Jasper, by Michelle Groce, ISBN: 0976096315
Children's Authors and Illustrators Week is annually the first week in February. The website for it is http://www.childrensauthorsnetwork.com. As I was searching for more information about it online I came across another librarian's blog that had great tips. Visit http://cynthialeithichsmith.blogspot.com/2006/01/tips-for-childrens-authors.html to check it out.
I really wanted to have a young adult author come for a program during this week. However, with a small budget and attendance numbers that don't usually reach double digits I thought that it would be difficult. I looked at several authors but they all lived farther away and I was worried about the weather during the first week of February. If there was a chance of snow or icy conditions anyone coming from more than an hour away probably wouldn't be able to make it. Then I found a perfect candidate.
Michelle Groce is a young adult author who lives within five miles of the library. Novello Festival Press published her first book, Jasper, so copies of the book were available for sale and to check out at the library. Jasper is a book about a cat with a psyhic sense for danger, who has to make choices between helping others and helping himself. To read a review of Jasper, follow this link http://www.readersclub.org/reviews/tresults.asp?id=2154
Her website at http://www.michellegroce.com/ has lots of information also.
Michelle was willing and enthusiastic about doing a teen program at the library. She put together a powerpoint presentation that shared pictures of her cats and answered some of the most frequent questions that people ask about her book and being an author. After the presentation, we had a drawing to win a copy of Jasper, then Michelle answered questions and signed books.
There were several aspiring authors at this event. Michelle was very encourging but also realistic about writing. She said that it took her years and years to write Jasper and get it published, mainly because at first she was trying to write a murder mystery. "You have to write the story that is inside you waiting to be told, not necessarily what you think will sell well." Michelle was planning on writing a trilogy with the characters from Jasper, but got sidetracked by another story, titled If which she just finished recently.
Jasper, by Michelle Groce, ISBN: 0976096315
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