We’re excited about the mom-son author visits we have lined up for the fall!

Today we autographed and sold our kids’ dog books and audiobooks at a homeschool fair. We were especially excited about sharing information about our audiobooks, which feature the voices of kids age 5 to 13.

When we produced our first audiobook (Michael’s idea, because he loves to listen to audiobooks), Michael and his friends were only 5 years old. I love the sound of their voices in the audiobook version of Bash and Lucy Fetch Confidence

Next we’ll be visiting students via Skype in the classroom. We have “traveled” about 540,000 miles to “meet” students in 15 countries via Skype in the classroom. Our first visit is in September.

Learn more about our Skype in the classroom visits here.

When we arrange a visit with a class, we first send our books and audiobooks. During the visit, we explain why we started writing together: After the unexpected death of our dog, Lucy, we began “Bash and Lucy Fetch Confidence” to help us keep her in our hearts. We  saw writing as a way to cope with our grief. During these visits, we ask kids to discuss art projects they created to help them cope with grief. We also discuss how we create characters–often based on people we know. We talk about the importance of including a conflict in fiction, and identify some of the conflicts in our books. We usually wrap up with questions from students, and they often give us ideas for our next books.

In addition to Skype visits, we’ll be making our annual appearance at a school Entrepreneur Fair in November.

And we were just asked to be speakers at a local event for new writers in October. More coming on that!

if you’d like us to visit via Skype or in person, email us at BashAndLucy@gmail.com. We love visiting with both students and adults of any age, in any location.

Meanwhile, we’re working on our fourth book and audiobook Michael’s surrogate grandma, Vera, who is from Ukraine and appears in our third book, plays a critical role in the next book.

You can watch Michael dedicate our last book to Vera here: