January 2009 Newsletter

January 19, 2009

  Travels of Misfit McCabe

I thought I’d take just a moment to let everyone know where each of the eight books are and current travel plans for the books.

Book 1
The Purple line started off in Garden Grove, CA and then traveled to Bayfield, CO, a trip of 801 miles, so that it could go to school with Keely in Durango, CO and was shared with her class. That brought the total mileage of the book up to 828 miles. Miss Pam’s class decided to send the book to another class in Montreal, QC. And the book is currently traveling and trying to get through Customs to get to the classroom in Canada. Once it arrives, the total mileage for the Purple line will be 2,175 miles. Wow! It is also exciting to have one of the books travel to another country. So far Book 1 has been read by 5 people.

Book 2
The Yellow line started off at Gail’s house in Snohomish, WA and has now traveled on to Lily’s house in Woodinville, WA, a short jaunt of approximately 7 miles so far. I hear that Lily is planning to pass the book around to her friends once she is done reading it.

Book 3
The Red line is currently in West Milton, OH where Diane has read it and now Brian is in the process of reading it. They are still trying to decide where it will go from there.

Book 4
The Green line started in Hesperia, CA with Justine, and has moved 12 feet down the hall to her brother Jacob. It will soon be starting its travels by going to Oregon, and then most likely to eastern Washington after that. From there? It could be Chicago, IL, but who knows??

Books 5, 6, 7 & 8
I don’t have any updated information from Books, 5, 6, 7, & 8 with the exception of confirmation of arrival at the starting point. I have heard that some have moved on, but I don’t have any information to share. Just to give you a flavor for where they are starting:
Book 5 – the Blue line started in Las Vegas, NV
Book 6 – the Teal line started in Norfok, VA
Book 7 – the Pink line started in El Paso, TX
Book 8 – the Brown line started in Butler, NJ

Sequel Update

As some of you know, I have started to work on the sequel to Misfit McCabe. Chapter 1 has been completed, and for me that was going to be the most difficult to write. Why was it the most difficult? Because I wanted to make sure that I covered what happened in Misfit McCabe enough so that someone who starts with the sequel won’t be lost, but didn’t want to bore those of you who have already read and enjoyed Misfit McCabe. Hopefully, I will have done a good job of this, but you will be the judge of that once the sequel has been completed.

Up until yesterday, Chapter 1 was as far as I had gotten due to the holidays and a few other reasons, but yesterday, I dusted off my keyboard, plugged my headphones in on my mp3 player and started typing. If I didn’t have something that I had to do last night, Chapter 2 would be complete by now, but I am only about 1,000 words off completion of Chapter 2, so should be done tonight. I will keep you posted on what is happening with the sequel as I am working on it.

Book Trailer
I finally have posted my book trailer for Misfit McCabe on YouTube. So stop by and take a look and let me know what you think. Just type Misfit McCabe in the search box and you should find it.

That’s all the news for now. Keep on Reading!

LK Gardner-Griffie