Paint Your Room with Colors From my Books

Sherwin-Williams has this fun online tool called Chip It! that instantly turns any picture into a sample palette using over 1,500 paint colors. I uploaded the covers from the dozen children's picture books I've illustrated and posted my favorites:

Neat, huh? Go to Chip It! to make your own palettes from Sherwin-Williams paint. Thanks to Elizabeth O. Dulemba for the tip!

Birthday Book Sale and Charity Drive

It's my birthday today, and to celebrate, I'm holding a book sale where YOU get the gifts!

Starting today, all sales of the Mom's Choice Award-winning books, The Wishing Tree and Storm Codes, will include the following:

• FREE surprise gift with purchase! To mark my 31 years, the first 31 orders will also receive a randomly-selected extra: book pins, flashing buttons, Wish Ribbons, or signed art prints!
• FREE shipping within the United States!
• All proceeds will be donated to the American Red Cross!

The Wishing Tree

Hardcover $20.00 USD

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Storm Codes

Paperback $15.00 USD

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Order now! The charity drive will wrap up on Sept. 3rd, 2012. Thanks to all my friends and family who remembered me today. You guys are the best!

Illustration Friday: Sight

Happy Friday! This week's Illustration Friday submission is from the award-winning Storm Codes. Here, Katy and her mother catch sight of her father's Great Lakes steamship, The Edward B. Greene, following a harrowing November storm in Duluth, MN.

Storm Codes was recognized with the Jeanette Fair Award, a Silver Mom's Choice Award, and an Honorable Mention from the Northwest Minnesota Book Awards, among other honors. Want a copy signed by both the author and me? I'm selling autographed paperbacks with FREE SHIPPING here.

Have a great weekend, everyone - AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!