The Good Little Mermaid's Guide to Bedtime is here!

The Eel Report is that I have them

I have eels on endpapers. I have eels in the dedication. I even have eels in the text! 

It is still a dream of mine to write a whole book of eel poetry, but until that happens, look at these magnificent eel illustrations by Nici Gregory from The Good Little Mermaid’s Guide to Bedtime! 

I also love how the eels on this page are like, “yes, floss your teeth, you are divine, you have beautiful gleaming teeth, you must brush them.”

Nici’s illustrations in The Good Little Mermaid’s Guide to Bedtime are so excellent, and it’s really fun to make up what all the other fish are thinking throughout the story. Highly recommend commentary from all the fish while you read. 

Mermaid Book Events

Since The Good Little Mermaid’s Guide to Bedtime published on March 5th, I’ve been busy doing book store visits and author signings, which have been a blast! It is very exciting to see a book you wrote on a shelf in a bookstore. I am so grateful.

I started off my mini book tour at Wishing Tree Bookstore in Spokane, Washington, a beautiful bookshop in the South Perry District. I love doing storytimes, and it always feels so special to connect and share a storytime with kids and families. 

I partnered with my friend and children’s author, Lisa Frenkel Riddiough, to do a couple bookstore events. A virtual event with Red Balloon Bookshop and an event in College Station, Texas at Hyperbole Bookstore. 

Lisa’s picture book, Pie-Rats! is a rollicking rhyming pie-filled picture book! It’s so much fun, and had kids and adults both yelling, PIE! PIE! PIE! 

This weekend I have my hometown book launch with BookPeople of Moscow on March 23rd at 2:30pm at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre.

At the event, I’ll share a little bit about the writing process and how this unhinged mermaid story evolved to become this final physical book, and I’ll read the story and sign copies. I’ll also have coloring sheets! If you’re local, I’d love to see you out there. 

Next Saturday, on March 30th, I’ll be at Auntie’s Bookstore in Spokane, Washington, with a couple of mermaids! Auntie’s regularly hosts mermaid storytimes, and I’m so excited to have mermaids join me for my reading— I can’t wait to meet them!

If I’ll be in your neighborhood for the next couple of events, I’d love to meet you! Be the first to find out about events and book news.

How does anyone have time to read when a book is being released?

That is a great question, but it helps to read mostly picture books, which are lovely and short and just the right amount of story and escape. And it helps when a novel is written by a middle-grade writing master, like Erin Entrada Kelly or Anne Ursu.

Thanks for reading the Eel Report Newsletter, can’t wait to share more with you next month!