My book about Ms. Verga Bless has been in the hands of big-time reviewers for a while now. You don't get to read it until they've had their fill. We'll soon know if my effort will be appreciated. The book will be on shelves in October, but not before.
   News: Another Halloween book to start talking about right now is one where I have an important advisory part. It's a ghost story that got a nice review in Flamingnet Reviews, naturally. Also, Tery Ordway's story which maybe I mentioned before got that nice long review in School Library Journal, a place where librarians find good stuff for kids to read, is a huge big success.Tery's story is about the big San Francisco earthquake that ancient old Mr. Junior Kuhl was in, just about exactly a hundred years ago, last month.
    Another new BalonaBook coming out in November is about some of Mr. Don Keyshot's fun and painful adventures in Balona. Unfortunately, Mr. Keyshot had to give a lot of credit for finding his lost dog to a person on my List, a person by the name of Joey Kuhl, no longer a favorite of mine. (Did I already mention that?)(When you blog, your mind gets all mixed up, you know.)
   I mentioned already but I'll say it again, you can buy books right on this Web site on PayPal with your credit card. You could, for example, find a good story by Claire's big brother Jack Ordway. John-Browne's Body & Sole is really pretty good and got a good review in Booklist. And Claire gets part of the royalty to add to her huge rich person's sack of gold if you buy her brother's book. Also,now that my Pales are gone, I would also feel a lot better if you will e-mail me and tell me if you like my blog.     Patella's E-Mail