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What a pleasant surprise to be featured in the fall 2021 issue of Mountain Town Magazine, published in Breckenridge, Colorado. Thanks for the shout out! Read the full article here - jump to page 26 or browse the entire issue!

Booksellers who help readers discover the right book at the right moment feel dopamine bursts of satisfaction all day every day. In other words, sales matter above almost everything else in bookstores. If a writer keeps this rule in mind, it’s easy to build a better relationship with a bricks-and-mortar bookshop

Traveling to two in-person trade shows (PNBA in Portland, OR) and MPIBA in Denver, CO) was a solid launch for Read Island. There were so many new and familiar faces! Check out the summaries from Publisher's Weekly. 

"Books and nature are everything to me. When I set out to write a children’s book about the joy of reading, I knew it had to take place outdoors and not inside a classroom or a library. Books take us to amazing places, right?" - from the Q&A with Lynn Becker, SCBWI reviewer