Through the Eyes of an Author

Once again the summer has rushed by at high speed! And as I’ve said before, when things get busy blogs get neglected. Those silly luna moths certainly required a lot of care, but it was because I had so darned many. What was I thinking when I ordered 120 eggs? About three weeks after they spun their cocoons, just when I thought I’d have a quiet rest until they hatched next May, I started finding adult moths hanging from the walls of my apartment—they hatched early! Longer daylight lengths can trigger short cocoon stays, so I guess they mistook my late nights working on the computer as warm Florida evenings! So the luna project has concluded for this year, but I will be documenting it on my Web site. It was exciting watching them all eclose!

I’d hoped to finish the second book in The Wolf’s Apprentice Series by now, but developing The Grey Ghost’s curriculum guide, and a wonderful new relationship with Fablevision Learning have slowed my writing down. I’ll be posting more about this! I did find time to research the series’ back story more thoroughly and I’m very excited with what Angus has in store!

I just mailed off the books I donated to the Mawuko Girls’ School library in Ghana. You can read more about that here: http://www.indiebound.org/articles/julie-hahnke/huzzah-indies.

And . . . my publisher announced last week that we’ve sold through all of The Grey Ghost inventory and we’re going into a second printing!!! Yay!