20th Annual Colorado Book Awards!

Finalists in the 20th Annual Colorado Book awards will read at Baur's Ristorante, 1512 Curtis Street, Denver, CO 80202 on Friday June 10, beginning at 4:30pm.  Since  Magnus Maximus, A Marvelous Measurer is a finalist in the Children's Literature category, come and hear me reading a wee snippet.  Audience members can enjoy meeting many of the authors in this year's finalist list, ask them questions, buy signed copies of books, and enjoy an early Friday happy hour at a great downtown restaurant.

The Colorado Book Awards is one of the country's oldest book awards program. To view a complete finalist list, click here.

Winners will be announced on Friday, June 24 at 1pm at the Awards Ceremony , the culminating event for the Aspen Summer Words Writing Retreat and literary festival hosted by The Aspen Writers Foundation and The Aspen Institute.  Tickets are only $10 for the awards ceremony, which will be held at the Doerr-Hosier Center in Aspen, with global literati - including Dr. John Cole, the Director of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress in attendance.

Where do you get your ideas?

I get asked this question a lot, and so when  Charlesbridge (publisher of Raj) asked me to do a guest blog for them on their Unabridged, I wrote some thoughts on this, specifically as it relates to Raj the Bookstore Tiger. Check it out here and maybe you can discover your own "inner tiger."

Updates on Magnus Maximus a Marvelous Measurer

Magnus Maximus a Marvelous Measurer is a finalist for the Colorado Authors' League Awards.  The winners will be announced at the CAL Banquet on May 10.

Magnus is also a finalist for the Colorado Book Awards.  The award event will be held June 24, 2011 at Aspen Summer Words Literary Festival in Aspen.