Over the Moon with Darcy Moon!

Today my good friend, Catherine Carvell,  just received a special package in the mail - an advance copy of her debut MG novel Darcy Moon and the Deep Fried Frogs! 

Catherine's over the moon with her first copy of Darcy!

Mark my words, people, Catherine's book is destined to be a best-seller. I was fortunate enough to read the early drafts of the story and I loved it. The story is gut-busting funny and it's green in every sense of the word.  Catherine's been working on it for a very long time and so this is an especially thrilling day for her and I think we can all understand why.

Catherine, congratulations, you've done an amazing job! We're proud of you. Now onto those best-seller lists!  Darcy Moon and the Deep Fried Frogs is published by Fremantle Press and will be available in all good bookstores in March.

Darcy Moon is a book for readers of all ages.

Blogger, Google+,Facebook, Twitter, and Pumpkin Soup = A few hours with Two Authors

This morning Catherine Carvell kindly invited me over to her place to discuss how best to optimize social media to gain traffic for our respective blogs. So after a couple of hours we successfully synced our blogs to facebook, twitter, google+ & everything else you can name. 

Catherine's office is ultra tidy and organized, the complete opposite of my workspace. Taking a place of pride on one of her shelves is the 2010 Pitch Award that she won this year when she went to the SCBWI WA retreat in Rottnest. I'm sure it's only the first of many to come. :)

Catherine's Rottnest Pitch Award

Famished  after a couple of hours of social media coordination, we then lunched on yummy freshly baked bread from Cedele and Catherine's famous Pumpkin Soup- YUMILICIOUS! And we topped off the meal with some really yummy biscuits for dessert.

Post lunch we decided to revisit a project we have been working on for some time. I don't know how we got anything done because Catherine's ideas had us in stitches the whole time. It looks like it's going to be hilarious!

Catherine working on our project. Clue: The back scratcher is part of the story.

Then it was time for Catherine to head out on the school run and I headed out for my afternoon walk at the Botanical Gardens. Thanks for a great day, Catherine, and for my back scratcher from Cambodia. It's great, the best!

I'll be catching up with Catherine and most of the SCBWI Singapore group tomorrow when we head out for dinner with Jacqueline Harvey. We're really looking forward to it. Till then people!

My Cambodian back scratcher.