Just in the door from a quick pilgrimage to Powell’s (always an eagerly-anticipated destination when either of our sons is home) where I spotted a treasure for all you Betsy-Tacy fans out there:

It’s a pristine first edition of Betsy’s Wedding by Maud Hart Lovelace, the final book in her fabulous Betsy-Tacy series!  This charming bookseller at the Powell’s Cedar Hills store gamely posed with it so I could snap a picture.

At $150, it’s out of my price range (we’re still knee deep in the college years), but I thought perhaps someone might be interested.  AND for all you mother-daughter book club fans out there, I’m herewith dropping a HUGE HINT as to what my fictional club will be reading in the fifth installment (currently under construction and due in bookstores sometime in September 2011)…

Attention all lovers of middle-grade literature!   There’s a new blog on the block.  Check it out:

From the Mixed-Up Files … of Middle-Grade Authors

Looks like fun to me!

Fellow Portland writer and blogger Amy Baskin posted an interview with me today over at her nifty new kid lit blog Euphoria — check it out here if you’re interested.  Thanks, Amy!