CHECK OUT THE NEW PAGE - THE PRINCESS COMMANDS IT!
I bought this tiara for myself in celebration of the book’s publication!
Zounds! It’s taken awhile but Princess Egg is about to meet the world this week when THE PRINCESS AND THE PEABODYS is published by HarperCollins. I just hope the world is ready for her!
I’m particularly proud of the new Princess page on this website. By now, you’ve seen the animated cheerleading princess on my home page. Click on the book title and you’ll see a brand new web page with a knock-out design.
On all my pages, if you run your cursor over the icons, they change. On this page, they are brand new and you have to see my dog Desi’s new outfit! Woof!
Then, you can read excerpts, learn some tiara trivia and send a free e-card to your friends. I’ve been sending them out all day. Please don’t forget to take the quiz to find out if you’re a Princess or a Peabody… or something in between. It’s a kick! But whew - hard for me to write and score and much, much harder to execute.
I have to thank my impressively talented stepdaughter, graphic designer Rebecca Frank for the inspiration. Over a tasty lunch at Kate Mantilini’s in Beverly Hills one day, she came up with these great ideas. They were executed - brilliantly - by my other stepdaughter, Anna Birney Ross in Minneapolis. She’s a website designer and a fine, fine artist. Her husband, Toby, partnered with her technically and creatively. Thanks, Toby and Anna! Their company is ineye.com. Becca’s is starfuzz.com. (The whole family including son, Walshe, sons-in-law Gary and Toby, and granddaughter Remy, will be together this week to celebrate my husband’s birthday!)
Who is this book for? Well, it’s pink and features a princess, so the boys will love it! Okay, okay, it’s for girls 10 and up. The protagonists are 14 and there is very light romance in it - totally clean and wholesome and fine for young girls. Most of all, it’s FUNNY. And heartwarming, too, I hope. You can get the flavor by reading the excerpts on the webpage.
And if you’re not a princess-type - take heart! The story is told by Casey Peabody, who is a lot more like Mia Hamm than Cinderella. Princesses rule … and so do soccer-players! Last week Mia Hamm was named to the National Soccer Hall of Fame. And earlier this year, she gave birth to twin girls. Her husband is Los Angeles Dodgers third base man Norman Garciaparra … did I mention Casey loves baseball, too?
