Guinea Pigs and Deadwood

Hi, Everyone!

Many thanks to Patti Kurtz for starting this blog for me! I'm unfamiliar with the whole blogging experience, so you'll get to be my guinea pigs.

Don't worry -- I won't be spilling the secrets of my personal life. Instead, I'll be using this blog to talk about the writing life and to keep you updated with happenings around the region.

Coming up on September 28-30 in Deadwood is the 5th Annual South Dakota Festival of Books. More than sixty authors will be present, including Nancy Koupal, SCBWI member from Pierre. (She's director of the South Dakota State Historical Society Press.) I'll be there also.

Are there other members of SCBWI Dakotas who will be speaking in Deadwood?

Jean Patrick
SCBWI Regional Advisor, Dakotas