Betty Birney’s Blog

Please don’t tell Susan Kochan about this post. She’s the editor of the Humphrey books and she thinks I’m working 24/7 on revisions for next year’s Humphrey book but I had to go to the bathroom and then I thought, well, would it hurt to post a little blog? How long could it take? But I am on a tight deadline and Susan sounded very serious when she said everything had to be done by the 17th. Okay, so I won’t go to the bathroom again.

Earlier this morning, I took another teeny-weeny break to check out pal Lisa Yee’s blog and look at my picture. You can check it out, too:

http://lisayee.livejournal.com/98103.html

Lisa has a new book -  another one! (Maybe she doesn’t take bathroom breaks.) It’s called Absolutely Maybe – a great title.  I was at Monterey Hills Elementary School in South Pasadena on Monday – before I got Susan’s notes. Lisa lives nearby so we met for coffee. Okay, I had a diet coke and Lisa ordered mounds of food and then shoved it in front of me before she took the picture. Pretty sneaky. That’s me with Peepy, who goes everywhere with Lisa.

Go to Lisa’s blog and her website and her new website for Absolutely Maybe and read all of her books. Then scroll down to the bottom of her blog. If you have any interest in reading, writing or teaching children’s books, look at the video. It’s 10 minutes long or more (I guess it was a longer break than I remembered) and hysterical. Jeanne Birdsall is fabulous as the agent and so is Tomie de Paola, with whom I spent a couple of jolly hours in Dallas back in April (Susan was there, too).

Tomorrow is ADVENTURE DAY! ADVENTURE ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY comes out! I had one copy and I accidentally left it at Monterey Hills Elementary. Don’t tell Susan that either!

So I might skip the bathroom breaks tomorrow and write another post to celebrate.

Bye!