Teachers and librarians! I will be hosting a few 15 to 20 minute Skype sessions on Feb 5, 2020 for World Read Aloud Day! As a picture book author-illustrator, my ideal audience is Kindergarten through 2nd grade. Please contact me through my contact page to see if any spots are available.

SCBWI Oregon’s Great Critique is an event that happens twice a year. Each session is an awesome opportunity for writers and illustrators to be critiqued by a professional and their peers.

Never been in a critique group? Wish you could be critiqued by someone who is ahead of you in the publishing game? Want to strengthen your work? Need a fresh set of eyes and ears on that oft-revised piece? This is your chance. A published author or illustrator will lead each small group and critique your manuscript or art. You’ll also hear/see others’ work and get feedback from those writers and illustrators too. Plus you’ll learn from the comments by the critique leader about the work of others.

So join us for a morning of perfecting your craft. And, who knows, you might make a few new like-minded friends to start a new critique group, too.

There will be a meet and greet at 9:00, where attendees sign in and get their name tags, then can enjoy a cup of coffee and a snack while meeting other writers and illustrators. Faculty books will be available for purchase during the refreshment time as well.

Register here: https://oregon.scbwi.org/events/winter-great-critique-january-2020/

The festival will be held Saturday, September 28th 2019 from 11-3pm at Greenwood Elementary School (both inside and on the grounds), a historic 1909 brick Seattle school in the heart of Seattle (near the Woodland Park Zoo and one of the city's most beloved public parks -- Green Lake Park).

https://www.seattlechildrensbookfestival.com/

Get ready for school with a special storytime at Maggie Mae’s Kids Bookshop in Gresham, OR. Kate will read from MAE’S FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL and share with kids about how she makes books.

11 am

43 NW 3rd St Gresham, OR 97030

https://www.maggiemaesbooks.com

Storytime and book signing at The Book Bin 450 Court St NE, Salem, OR 97301.

http://bookbin.com

I’ll be selling books and cards at my favorite local yoga studio’s annual holiday craft fair. Please come by!

Drishti Yoga Studio: 728 NE Dekum St, Portland, OR 97211

“Drishti is a community yoga space meant for yogis of all types and in all stages of their practice.

Our mission is to offer everyone the opportunity to practice yoga, every day.

Come as you are.”

The Portland Book Festival will be featuring authors in a storytime format at the kid’s stage, which has a new, larger location at the Oregon Historical Society. The picture book programming will be hosted by Emily Arrow, who writes ukulele songs based on picture books. Green Bean Books will have books available for sale. 

Kate will be a featured author at the Feast of Authors on Saturday, September 29, from 4:00 to 8:30 pm at the Hotel Murano in Tacoma, Washington. The annual Feast will feature twenty authors, each moving from one table to another at fifteen-minute intervals throughout the evening, discussing their new books and answering booksellers’ questions

Kate will read her new book MAE'S FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL at this special storytime in Portland's famous Powell's Bookstore in downtown Portland, Oregon.

Storytime and festivities at Green Bean Books