libraries - Melanie Conklin

The Educator Guide for Every Missing Piece is Here!

2020 has been an interesting year to release a new book, that’s for sure. Sometimes it feels a bit like tossing hardcovers into a black hole, but that’s just because we can’t see each other the way we normally would. No conferences, no festivals, no in-person author visits. It’s hard to connect.

Readers are still […]

Every Missing Piece is here!

Book birthdays can be weird, even when you’re not in the middle of the apocalypse. For an author, a book is mentally “done” a long, long time before it hits the shelves. We have to finish our work early so that copy editors can fact check and make sure we didn’t make too many horrendous […]

How to Get the Most out of an Author Visit

It’s back-to-school season, which means both traditional-calendar educators and authors are getting back to work. It’s an exciting but draining time of year. New kids are awesome but exhausting, and educators are trying to get everything in place for a successful school year, including author visits.

Every time I speak with educators at conferences, the […]