Okay, peeps, my groovy new website now launched, I turn my attention almost exclusively -- I still have a dog to walk and a few mouths to feed -- to preparing my presentations for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Annual Summer Conference in Los Angeles.

This is my first SCBWI-LA Conference -- I've done NY, Bologna and New England, some of them more than once. And I'm all jazzed up because this time I'll also be presenting, which is exciting and scary all at the same time. Plus, I NEVER get to LA, so that's pretty cool too.

I am thrilled to be sharing the podium -- not once, but twice -- with the lovely, the dynamic fellow author, app developer and Hen&ink Literary Agency chick, Julie Hedlund. We will be talking on all the things, both wacky and wonderful, that we've learned through first-hand experience about publishing in a digital world.