Karen Cushman

Karen Cushman

Newbery award-winning children’s book author

Karen Cushman

Highlights of the Tour

Riley and Leo, musical geniuses
Riley and Leo, musical geniuses
 
Eva and Camryn, singers
Eva and Camryn, singers

No, I wasn’t captured by aliens and transported to a distant planet. I have been on book tour to ten cities, up and down the west coast, where I visited schools, bookstores, and libraries. I met hundreds of people and signed hundreds of books. Now I am home and can do my laundry, answer emails, and write thank you notes

The highlights of the tour were Riley and Leo, musical geniuses from TOPS school in Seattle, who played old Irish tunes to open the May webcast; Eva Cyra and Camryn Kim-Murphy of Vashon Island who sang harmonies so beautifully at the farmers’ market and before my presentation at Books By the Way on the island; and the fabulous folks at Brook Haven Middle School in Sebastopol who were a great audience, asked interesting questions, and then fed Philip and me a pizza lunch. I’ll go back there any time they ask me. But now I must try to remember how to be a writer and not a performer.