Printing of my book about Ms. Verga Bless has been sold out three times now, I'm happy to say, but you'll be able to get yours right away, since I'll put in a good word for you. The review for Verga at School Library Journal was fun, too.
   News: A fun-scary book for any season (not just Halloween) 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 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. Too bad he's gone now.
    A fine BalonaBook by Mr. Don Keyshot is about some of Mr. Keyshot's fun and painful adventures in Balona and elsewhere. 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.)
   A huge big surprise is that Mr. Joaquin Peralta is finally going to put out a book of his own. Mr. Peralta has been editing stuff for BalonaBooks, and now he has written An Almost Private Eye, a book which doesn't have its cover finished yet and is supposably written by a person I would rather not name whose initials are JOK. Mr. Peralta's book is going to come out next January (but I thought it would be nice to mention it now to sharpen up your appetite.)
   I'll say again because of that foggy problem: you can buy books right on this Web site on PayPal with your credit card. You could, for example, find a great story by Claire's smart big almost-brother Jack Ordway. John-Browne's Body & Sole which 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