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Deborah Wiles

Thank you for your wonderful mail. Due to my travel schedule, book deadlines, family dramas (oy!), and the very welcome volume of mail, I am a very slow responder. Well... I am a slow responder, anyway; always have been, always will be. I like to say that I correspond with my heart, and that is true.

Many years ago, a wise teacher taught me that the payoff and real meaning of a letter well-written was found in the sending of that letter, regardless of the reply. I slowly learned to understand that truth, as John Lennon, Micky Dolenz, Robert Kennedy, Petula Clark, Jean-Claude Killy, Nikita Khruschchev, and Martin Luther King, Jr. did not write me back. Not that my mail is of their volume, but I came to understand that a response (or lack thereof) wasn't about them; it was about my need to communicate. I hope you come to that same understanding. I am probably at least six months (maybe closer to a year -- I just can't believe that) behind in answering mail, although I read every single letter I receive with a glad heart and great gratitude, I truly do. I read with Big Love and Great Thanks. Thank you for writing.

All regular (snail) mail should go through this address, while the Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt merger is being finalized:

Deborah Wiles
c/o Harcourt Children's Books
15 E. 26th St.
NY, NY 10010

School and Conference inquiries should be sent to Kia Neri, Harcourt's Author Promotions Goddess, at this email address, until June 30, 2008, at which time we'll figure out who to send requests to:

Kia.Neri@harcourt.com

and you should cc your email to this address to make sure I get it, too:

inquiry@deborahwiles.com

Again... thanks for writing. And reading.

Deborah Wiles

Calendar:

Month	What's Happening
January 2008	23-24 -- Mantua Elementary School, Fairfax, VA, writing residency
February 2008	7-9 -- Books Alive!, Panama City, FL 20-21 -- South Carolina IRA (SCIRA), Myrtle Beach, SC 22-24 -- SCBWI Springmingle, Atlanta, GA 27-28 -- Scholastic Book Fairs event, Chicago, IL
March 2008	7-9 -- UNLV Conference w/Southern Nevada Writing Conference 27 -- Polk County Reading Council, Orlando, Florida
April 2008	2 -- Root Elementary School, Fayetteville, Arkansas 3 -- Vandergriff Elementary School, Fayetteville, Arkansas 19 -- Alabama Book Festival, Montgomery, AL 24 -- Alabama Book Award Ceremony (Little Bird!), Birmingham, AL 25-26 -- Children's Literature Conference, Frostburg, MD 30 -- Beth Yeshurun Day School, Houston, TX
May 2008	4 -- Day-long Institute at IRA, Atlanta, GA 5 -- signings, IRA, Atlanta 10 -- Family Celebration: college graduations, weddings, togetherness 13 - W.J. Cooper Elem. School, Loganville, GA 14 -- Scholastic Book Fairs, Hall County, GA 15-16 -- Putnam County Elem. School, Eatonton, GA 19-20 -- Columbia Public Schools, Columbia, MO 28 -- E.J. Swint Elementary School, Jonesboro, GA
June 2008	10-11 -- Literacy Compass, Tampa, FL 18 -- Brookwood Cluster Children's Reading and Writing Institute, Lawrenceville, GA
July 2008	14 -- Gettysburg Library 15 -- Frederick Co. Public Libraries, Urbana, MD 3:30pm, y'all come!
August 2008	Teacher In-service, Newnan, GA
Sept. 2008	Decatur Book Festival, Decatur, GA, Labor Day Weekend. home
October 2008	22 -- Stephens County Middle School, Toccoa, GA
Nov. 2008	18-20 Augusta, GA schools 22 -- TASL, Tennessee Assoc. of School Librarians, Franklin, TN
Dec. 2008	home
Jan. 2009	home
Feb. 2009	26-27 Crestline Elementary School, Mountain Brook, AL


ALL-STARS TOUR 2007:
August 2007	20-21 -- Scholastic Book Fairs, Charlotte Media Market 25 --signing, Little Shop of Stories, Decatur, GA 2pm 27 -- taping, Gwinnett County Public Schools, GA 28-30 -- Staff Development, Wayne Avenue School, Dunn, NC
Sept. 2007	The Aurora County All-Stars Tour -- Y'all Come! Sept. 6 (Thurs) 5pm: Happy Bookseller, Columbia, SC Sept. 11 (Tues): 11am: Shop on the Corner, Philadelphia, MS 5pm: Lemuria, Jackson, MS Sept. 12 (Wed) TBD: Turnrow Book Co., Greenwood, MS Sept. 13 (Thurs) 4pm: Square Books Jr., Oxford, MS 5:30pm Thacker Mountain Radio, Oxford, MS Sept. 17 (Mon) 7pm: Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC Sept. 18 (Tues) 6pm: Barnes & Noble, Walnut Creek, CA Sept. 19 (Wed): 9am-noon, Linden Tree, Los Altos, CA 2pm: School Visit sponsored by Books Inc, San Francisco Sept. 20 (Thurs): 9am-noon: The Storyteller, Lafayette, CA 3pm: Hicklebees, San Jose, CA Sept. 21 (Fri) 11am: signing, PNBA (Pacific Northwest Booksellers Assn) Seattle Sept. 22 (Sat): 11am: All For Kids, Seattle 4pm: Village Books, Bellingham, WA Sept. 23 (Sun): Third Place Books, Lake Forest, WA Sept. 24 (Mon): TBD: Children's Place Bookstore, Portland, OR 1pm: Powells, stock signing, Portland, OR Sept. 25 (Tues): 10am: school visit sponsored by Whale of a Tale, Irvine, CA 2pm: The First Page, stock signing, Costa Mesa, CA 7pm: Santa Fe Springs Public Library, Santa Fe Springs, CA Sept. 26 (Wed) 10am: Yellow Book Road, La Mesa, CA Sept. 29 (Sat) 2:50pm: Author Panel, SIBA, Atlanta, GA Oct. 7 (Sun): Midwest Booksellers Association, Minneapolis Oct. 12-13 Southern Festival of Books, Nashville Nov. 2-3 Texas Book Festival, Austin
October 2007	6-7 -- Midwest Booksellers Association (MBA), Minneapolis, MN 8 -- School District of Belleville, Belleville, WI 9 -- Rome Corners Intermediate School, Oregon, WI 12-13 -- Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, TN 17-18 -- Georgia COMO conference, Jekyll Island, GA 20 -- signing, Man in the Moon Children's Bookshoppe, Monroe, GA 11am 21 - 26 -- Dallas, TX schools
Nov. 2007	2-3 -- Texas Book Festival, Austin 5-9 -- Iowa City, IA schools 16-19 -- NCTE, National Council of Teachers of English, NYC 26-30 -- Canterbury Woods ES, Annandale, VA Writing Residency
December 2007	1-3 New Orleans, with Coleen Salley 4-5 -- Honors Forum, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
School Year 2006-2007:
September 2006	2 -- Decatur, GA Book Festival, 2:30pm Children's Stage 25-26 Library Expo with Scholastic Book Fairs, Montgomery and Birmingham, AL
October 2006	2 -- South Shades Crest Elementary School, Hoover, AL 13-15 -- Southern Festival of Books, Memphis, TN 16-18 -- National Presbyterian School, Washington, DC 25-26 -- Mississippi Library Association, Tunica, MS
November 2006	2 -- Green Valley Elementary School, Monrovia, MD 2 -- The Reading Connection, Washington, DC 3 -- George Mason Elementary School, Alexandria, VA 4 -- Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC 7 -- Duchesne Academy, Houston, TX 8 -- St. Francis Episcopal Day School, Piney Point, TX 17-18 - Savannah Children's Book Festival, Savannah, GA
December 2006	10-11 -- New York City, Listening Library
January 2007	29-31 -- Houston area schools, CyFair Independent School District
February 2007	1-2 -- Houston area schools, CyFair Independent School District 8 -- Scholastic Book Fairs, Orlando, FL 21 -- Gregory Elementary School, Wilmington, NC
March 2007	2 --AWP, Associated Writing Program panel, Atlanta, GA 6 -- Jefferson Middle School, Oak Ridge, TN 7 --Robertsville Middle School, Oak Ridge, TN 19 -- University of Texas at Austin 12-14 -- North Carolina Reading Association Conference 26-27 - Pearson Elementary School, Catlett, VA 28 -- Daniel Morgan Middle School, Winchester, VA 29 -- Haycock Elementary School, Falls Church, VA
April 2007	3-4 - Colorado Academy, Denver, CO 11-13 - Gwin Oaks Elementary School, Lawrenceville, GA 21 - Leon County Reading Council, Tallahassee, FL 22 - Arkansas Literary Festival, Little Rock 23- -Riverdale Elementary School, Germantown, TN 24 - Lakeland Elementary School, Lakeland, TN 24 - Memphis Public Library -- "Same Book, Same Time" LOVE, RUBY LAVENDER, 5:00pm (MidSouth Reads) 25 - St. George's Independent School, Memphis, TN
May 2007	1 -- The Children's School, Atlanta, GA 8 -- Scholastic Book Fairs dinner, Atlanta 10 -- Scholastic Book Fairs dinner, Atlanta 17 -- Children's Book Guild of Washington, D.C. 18 - The Sheridan School, Washington, D.C. 31 - June 1 -- Literacy Compass, Tampa, FL
June 2007	22-26 -- American Library Association Conference, Washington, DC

School Year 2005/6

Month	What’s Happening
September 2005	Home
October 2005	6 Robeson County Curriculum Reading Specialists, Wilmington, NC 7-9 Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, TN 13 Rowan County Reading Teachers, Salisbury, NC 16 Carpe Librum Books, Knoxville, TN 17 Hardin Valley Elementary School, Knoxville, TN 27 Mississippi Library Association, Vicksburg, MS -- This conference has been cancelled. Click here to find out how you can help rebuild Mississippi libraries devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
November 2005	4 Thomas Jefferson Elementary School and Forest Elementary School -- Forest, VA 5 Literature Festival, Central Library, Bedford, VA 6 Lynchburg Library visit in the Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg, VA 7 Paul Munro Elementary School, Lynchburg, VA 9-10 Frederick, MD 11 South Frederick Elementary School, Frederick, MD 12 Book Week luncheon, Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC 14-16 National Book Award Events, New York City 18-19 Savannah Literature Festival, Savannah, GA
December 2005	2-3 Reading Symposium, Pinehurst, NC 6-7 Northern Mississippi schools and libraries: 6 Strayhorn & Coldwater Elementary Schools, Tate County, MS 6 Hernando Public Library, Hernando, MS 7 Greenhill Elementary School at the Sardis Public Library, Sardis, MS 7 Tunica Public Library, Tunica, MS 7 Olive Branch Public Library, Olive Branch, MS 12-13 writing workshops, Glennwood 4-5 Academy, Decatur, GA
January 2006	Home
February 2006	23-26 Children's Literature Conference, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
March 2006	9-10 Virginia State Reading Association annual conference, Virginia Beach, VA 15-16 Bank Street College of Education, NYC 17-19 SCBWI retreat faculty, Chapel Hill, NC 20-24 Raleigh, NC area schools: 20 -- Baucom Elementary in Apex 21 -- Cedar Fork Elementary in Morrisville 22 -- Conn Active Learning & Technology Magnet Elementary in Raleigh 23 -- Jamestown Elementary School in Jamestown 24 -- Highcroft Drive Elementary in Cary 30 -- Orlando, FL taping Scholastic Bookfairs Author Video
April 2006	5-7 Children's Book Festival, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 7-9 New Orleans, LA w/ Coleen Salley 21- Heritage School, Newnan, GA with Deborah Hopkinson 24-26 TLA, Texas Library Association, Houston, TX 29, 30 -- International Reading Association annual conference, Chicago
May 2006	1-2 International Reading Association annual conference, Chicago 4-- Frederick County Reading Association, Frederick, MD 6 -- Celebration of Children's Literature, Washington, D.C. 9 -- Cash Elementary School, Kernersville, NC 10 -- Vienna Elementary School, Pfafftown, NC 18-19 -- ABA/Book Expo America, Washington, DC 23 -- Fox Theatre, Atlanta 27 - Atlanta Jazz Festival
June 2006	1-5 NYC 29 -- Shenandoah University Children's Literature Festival, Winchester, VA

July 2006	15-26 Vermont College, faculty
August 2006	home

School Year 2004/5

Month	What’s Happening
September 2004	15-17: North Carolina Library Media Specialists annual conference, Winston-Salem, NC
October 2004	5: Georgia schools 9: Washington Library Media Specialists, Bellevue, WA 11-15: Eastern Shore elementary schools, MD 14: Eastern Shore chapter, International Reading Assoc. 15-17: Edgecomb, ME 18: Chinn Park Regional Library, Manassas, VA
November 2004	5: Perry High School, Southwest Ga. Writing Project with RUBY. 13: Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC 15-19: Writing Residency, Willow Springs Elem, Fairfax Co., VA
December 2004	Home
January 2005	Home
February 2005	9-11 Rowan Co., NC schools Prepublication tour for EACH LITTLE BIRD THAT SINGS.
March 2005	7-8: Writing Residency, Girls Preparatory School, Chattanooga, TN 18-20: Vermont College, Montpelier VT
April 2005	6-7: Raleigh, NC schools 14-24: Publication tour for EACH LITTLE BIRD THAT SINGS in hardcover and LOVE, RUBY LAVENDER in a new paperback edition. For more information contact: Kia Neri at Harcourt: kneri@harcourt.com Y’all Come! April 14 10am – Vero Beach Book Center, Vero Beach, FL April 15 10:30am – Politics and Prose, Washington, D.C. April 15 6pm – Aladdin’s Lamp, Alexandria, VA April 16 11am – Barnes & Noble on Honeygo Blvd. Baltimore, MD (White Marsh) April 16 4pm – Dancing Bear, Frederick, MD April 18 11am – Barnes & Noble, Winston-Salem, NC April 18 7pm – The Regulator, Durham, NC April 19 7pm – Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC April 20 5pm – Open Book, Greenville, SC April 21 5pm – Happy Bookseller, Columbia, SC April 22 3:30pm – Square Books, Oxford, MS April 23 11am – Lemuria, Jackson, MS April 23 3:30pm – Brandon Library, Brandon, MS April 25 3pm -- Windows, A Bookshop, Monroe, LA
May 2005	3-6, International Reading Association annual conference, San Antonio, TX 16-17 Twin Ridge Elementary School, Frederick, MD 18 Middletown Elementary School, Frederick, MD 19 Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC 20 The Sheridan School, Washington, DC
June 2005	13 Barnes & Noble, Alpharetta, GA 24-27, American Library Association annual conference, Chicago, IL

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