Highway to Hello Kitty


I love the young people. Which probably explains why I gave birth to so many of them. Today, I visited Vyolette's Kindergarten class where I will be a weekly guest reader until my eyeballs dry up. I can test out new picture book material, play with people my own ADD level and cheat at Duck Duck Goose with a wider group of children than my own. Besides, I'm there so often they're about to give me my own cubby.

Today, a nearly toothless young man asked me if I could whistle. Damn straight, I can. It may be my one musical claim to fame that I can whistle the hell out of anything. It's a big change from my early childhood when I followed my father and my older brother around the house proclaiming I had the chops to tweet with the big boys.
"I CAN WHISTLE! WATCH ME! No, over here. I'm short, look down."
Then I'd then squeal through pursed lips until they ran away nodded appreciatively.

The conversation with the Kindergartners got a little fuzzy after that. It morphed into beegums and aliens wearing underpants but next week, I will turn that classroom on its head and we shall work on our performance piece. I just can't decide between "Purple Rain" or "Highway to Hello Kitty" (that would make an awesome band name).

What can you whistle?

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Write or clean the oven? Hmm...

Help! I'm stuck in a mad cleaning phase now that northern Virginia has leapt into an early spring. I have the insane need to scrub under sinks with more vigor than usual and am flirting with the idea of a garden and making a beegum. I'm becoming disgustingly Martha-like with plans of hand-painting poetry-laden scarves and developing my line of handmade dowsing rods (coming soon!) for the Girls' Ghost Hunting Guide's website. It's a sickness.

Book-wise:
Today I chatted with my too too fabulous publicist at Quirk Books about ideas for the upcoming Zombie Tarot. I'll be doing blog tours and readings, let me know if you'd like to be on the list for me to visit your site and I'll load up the zombies. The deck comes out June 5th, just in time for the summer bar-b-ques; nothing like the smell of fresh zombie on the grill. Trust me. There isn't.

My lovely and talented publicist at Sourcebooks is working hard toward the May 1st release of the Girls' Ghost Hunting Guide. My activity workbooks and party planning guide should be available soon to download so get ready to put the boo in your boogie this summer, my friends.

I've been kicking around ideas for my newest book and have some excellent options. Today, I added two more that I think will do quite well for kids and adults. Now to wrap up edits on No Rest for the Wicked anthology and it's into the cave for proposal writing!

What's your favorite cleaning tip?