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-Middle Grade / Young Adult Fantasy Author-
Ellie Collins
WHAT'S HAPPENIN'
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Oh, how glorious it was to have an opportunity to participate in a community event again, and I was thrilled that my first post-pandemic event was the Tacoma Spring Fairy Festival! I can't wait for more chances to get out there and meet new amazing people!
"Collins has created a character, Sarah, who is easily unlikable at the outset and reshapes her throughout the plot...". 😂😂😂 I never tried to "reshape Sarah throughout the plot". When Mad Max was finished, Mom and I talked about how Sarah ended up being pretty much me. So, I guess the moral of the story is that you may not like me when you meet me, but give me a little time and I'll definitely grow on you! 😁
And here it is - Book 3, Mad Max & Sweet Sarah! Wh-Hoooo!!!
It has been SO HARD to keep quiet about this until everyone told me it was okay to share! In the spirit of the new year and new decade, Dad and I sat down and created AWESOME new covers for Daisy, Bold & Beautiful and Mylee In The Mirror! There's another surprise soon to come, but for right now I'm so excited to share these spectacular new covers with you! They'll be available on Monday (January 6th)!
WOW! I had SO much fun at this year's Seattle Readers & Writers Author Event! I got to see one of my all-time favorite authors, Stevie Rae Causey (and buy a few more of her books), I had a couple return customers from last year (& promised them a new book for next year, so I need to get writing as soon as I post this)! One of them was a 2nd grade teacher who read my 1st book to her class last year & can't wait to read my 2nd one to them next year! I also met a ton of new readers & writers (including a friend of Jamie Ford, the author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet. She's a teacher at his old school & I can't wait to tell MY language arts teacher about it, since we just read his book last year)! HUGE thanks to Shauna Kruse for another AWESOME event!!!
I had a great time, once again, at the Brick & Mortar Indie Author Night! There were a few authors from last year and a quite a few new ones and we had a great turn-out!
Had an Ah-MAZ-ing time at the Spring Fairy Festival in Tacoma! There were so many super-cool people to meet and so many awesome things to see! I'm so glad I got the chance to participate!!!
Here I am making lemonade out of the sour lemons I got. Fate hands you a sprained ankle the week before regional championships, & instead of staying home & crying about it, you go & cheer on your teammates...and sell a few books while you're at it. No reason to be too sad, anyway. Apparently my state championship score was enough to qualify me for the national championships in June, so my season isn't quite over yet. HEAL, ankle, HEAL!!!
OMG, FIRST I was SO excited to learn I had won a SILVER MEDAL from the Readers' Favorite International Book Awards, but THEN I found out there's an awards ceremony in MIAMI!!! I had SO much fun!!! Thank you Readers' Favorite! :)
Wow; I LOVE this review from Literary Titan...written by a TEACHER, no less! Thank you, Literary Titan!!!
I saw other kids in the neighborhood having lemonade sales this summer. That gave me an idea... It was so much fun to have a book signing event on the sidewalk! I got to meet SO MANY of my neighbors!!! :)
Wow, the Seattle Author Event was HUGE and SO MUCH FUN! I even got to meet and hang out with my favorite author, Stevie Rae Causey!!! :)
WOW! I don't even know what to say! I'm blown away by these THREE awards from Story Monsters (WINNER: School Issues, WINNER: Book Trailer and 2nd PLACE: Middle Grade Fiction! ThankYou, ThankYou, ThankYou!!!
OMG, I'm SO PSYCHED; this is AWESOME!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you to the judges at the Paris Book Festival!!!
Mom and I had a great time with a bunch of other indie authors at Brick & Mortar Books! It was Indie Author Night - so many cool authors, so many cool books, so many cool people!!!
My first book signing! Vancouver was AWESOME & the author event was a ton of fun! I can't wait to do it again!
My mom is a member of a cool book club called Rave Reviews Book Club (#RRBC). She made me a member, too, when my book came out and - OMG, LOOK AT THIS - Daisy, Bold & Beautiful was named a Book of the Month for May!!! Thank you, RRBC - this is AWESOME!!!
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OMG, I had so much fun chatting with Literary Titan! I loved their beautiful review of Daisy, Bold & Beautiful and was honored to speak with them about it! :)
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Wow, thank you, Cheryl Holloway, for taking the time to ask my mom and me a few questions about our books; that was so much fun! :)
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Thank you so much to Mr. Aaron Brinker for reading Daisy, Bold & Beautiful and for writing an awesome review on his book blog! :)
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Thank you very much to Mr. Beem Weeks for posting about me in his awesome blog, Voice Of Indie! :) Click here to check it out!
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Huge thanks to Ms. Stevie Rae Causey for taking the time to interview me. That was SO much fun! :) Click here to check it out!
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Thanks so much to Ms. Jean Mader for posting about me on her fantastic blog, The Golden Age of Charli! TWICE!!! :) Click here to check it out!
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Huge thanks and cyber hugs to Sandy Vattimo for her beautiful and kind review and blog feature on her wonderful blog, Feed My Biblio-Diction! It's my first-ever book review and it was five-stars! Wh-HOOO! Click here to check it out!
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ThankYouThankYouThankYou to Ms. Markie for her awesome blog post about Daisy, Bold & Beautiful and our super-fun interview!
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