My Book is on AMAZON!!! Yes, you can pre-order Halloween Good Night!

A Writer's Life
Written By Rebecca Grabill

I am so full of exclamation points! See, just this morning I was showing Maggie the cover art pdf. She, always attentive, noticed the little square on the back cover where the bar code will go. "What's that?"

I tell her.

"What are all the numbers?"

"It's the ISBN number and..."

On a whim I typed the ISBN into Amazon's search bar not really expecting anything since just a few days ago I'd searched my own name (yes, authors do that) and only got my husband's book.

But this time... BOING!!! MY BOOK SHOWED UP!!!!

I have a release date (July 25, 2017)! I have an Amazon listing! Pow! Pow! I'm full of explosive exclamation points! Pow! So full I could explode! Pow!

But that would be messy so I won't. pow.

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Rebecca Grabill

Rebecca has been writing since childhood, her first book about a kitten published between homemade cardboard covers in second grade. Although she studied religion and philosophy in university, she continued writing, earning an MFA from Hamline University and publishing multiple picture books (no longer with homemade covers) and a collection of poetry with a variety of New York and independent publishers. She has also published a wide array of fiction, essays, and poetry in magazines and journals and photographs for Getty Images. She balances writing with homeschooling the younger of her six children, launching her young adults, church activities, and overseeing a small flock of chickens in rural West Michigan.

www.rebeccagrabill.com
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