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Summer update and YouTube Dormia video!

Hi there - I hope everyone is having a great summer. I'm currently in Chicago, enjoying the weather, food and friends (not necessarily in that order). Jake and I have been making good progress on book 3 in the Dormia series, while also getting ready for the spectacular release of book 2 - World's End - this November.

Also, I wanted to say thanks to our wonderful publishers at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, who helped put together this video posted on YouTube of Jake and I talking about Dormia. Hope you enjoy, and stay tuned for a lot of Dormia adventures this fall!

Peter

School visits in Michigan and Minnesota!

We recently had some great school visits up in Michigan and Minnesota. The Grand Haven Tribune reported on one of the visits in Michigan, so you can read about that here: Dormia Article in the Grand Haven Tribune!
Plus, there's a video of the school visit at this link:
Click here for the video.
(You'll have to click to page 4 of the videos to find the "'Dormia' author speaks to GH students" video up top.)

I've attached a few pictures from our travels. A huge thank you goes to Drew Sieplinga of Wild Rumpus book store in Minneapolis for all her hard working in setting up the Minnesota events and a huge thank you to Marcia Klemp, Susan Peets and Marilyn Hersh for some amazing school visits in Michigan!

Now that the summer is here, we won't be visiting schools anymore until the fall. But we will stay in touch about contests, music and other Dormia related events. Speaking of music, I just returned from a trip to New York City where I recorded the new song for book two which comes out in November. I can't wait to share it with you all!

Celia Rose

Thanks to Dormia fan Jessie Harris!

Once in a while, we come across fans of Dormia that really deserve special recognition. Jessie Harris put together an entire story board based on Dormia, in order to help his class measure where they were in reading the book. Here's a picture of Jessie with his story board!

Visit to Birmingham, AL and St. Louis, MO

This is Nancy, (aka Celia Rose) writing this one. Recently, Peter and I visited my hometown of Birmingham where we went to my old elementary school, Cherokee Bend. We also visited Highland's school which is literally located right behind the house where I grew up! Here's a pic from that school.

The third school we spoke at was called Liberty Park Middle School. The cool thing about this one was that it was located just 5 minutes away from the Carraway-Davie House, which is the beautiful place where Peter and I got married. Also, the librarian that worked at Liberty Park Middle was related to the owner of that place, so she took us over and gave us a personal tour to rekindle old memories of our wedding day!

Then we went out to get some good southern food, especially B-B-Q. I grew up vegetarian, but he loved it!

After our short visit to Birmingham, we flew to St. Louis. I went to college at Washington University, so I enjoyed returning to my old stomping grounds. Also, Peter and I actually met in St. Louis when he was visiting a high school friend of his who was a friend of mine in college. We met playing paint ball in the woods!
Here's a pic from one of the 10 school visits that we did during our few days there.

We had a great time in both B'ham and St. Louis, so thanks to everyone who made those school events possible!

Micailah

Thanks to Micailah for all her efforts in spreading the word about Dormia -- you rock!

Thanks to Josh at Granite Valley Middle School

Just wanted to send a shout out to Josh at Granite Valley Middle School -- he got Dormia on the summer reading list there. Josh, thanks that it is awesome. -- Jake