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Odin’s Promise was published by Crispin Books, based in Milwaukee and Sandy is working on a sequel.
Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee (2559 N. Downer Avenue) is celebrating Children’s Book Week with three days of great local children’s authors and SCBWI members discussing their books:
Thursday, May 7, at 6:30 p.m., features a panel of Middle-Grade genre writers that includes Julie Mata, whose Kate Walden Directs: Night of the Zombie Chickens 
is being followed by Kate Walden Directs: Slug Man from Mars, which is being published this spring; Sandy Brehl, whose Odin’s Promise 
came out last fall, and Emily Demuth Ishida, whose Hattie’s War also debuted last fall.
On Friday, May 8, at 7 p.m. Young Adult author Sylvia Acevedo, whose God Awful Loser
is just out will present.
Saturday, May 9, wat 2 p.m. Picture Book authors Janet Halfmann, whose Animal Teachers
is the most recent of her many books, Kashmira Sheth, whose most recent book Sona and the Wedding Game
came out earlier this month, and Jamie Swenson, whose most recent book If You Were a Dog
was published last September, are on the schedule.
Thanks to the title character in her Middle Grade historical fiction novel, Odin’s Promise, Sandy Brehlhas been invited to be guest author at the Greater Milwaukee Norwegian Elkhound Association’s AKC judging event at the Western Waukesha County Dog Training Club in Ixonia, Wisconsin
On April 18 I’ll take part in a one-of-a-kind event that is open to the public. If you’re a dog-lover and anywhere near Wisconsin, plan to take a spring drive and join us. The Greater Milwaukee Norwegian Elkhound Association is hosting an official AKC Judging event and they invited me to participate!
Not as a judge, of course, since I’ll be the most novice observer there. Instead I have the rare privilege of appearing as a guest author. In fact, copies of ODIN’S PROMISE will be awarded as prizes in the various competitions. Never in a million years could I have imagined an opportunity like this resulting from writing and publishing this book.
Want to know more about it? Maybe even come and meet some gorgeous, intelligent individuals — and the people who love them? CLICK HERE for details, and check them out below:
Wisconsin children’s authors Ann Angel, Bridget Birdsall, Stephanie Lowden, JoAnn Early Macken, Julie H. Mata, Miranda Paul, Gayle Rosengren, Pat Schmatz, Andrea Skyberg, Jamie Swenson, Sandy Brehl, and Janet Halfmann will be at the Wisconsin State Reading Association conference this Thursday and Friday (Feb. 5 and 6) at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, and signing their books at the Anderson’s Bookshop Naperville and SCBWI-Wisconsinin area of the Exhibits area.
Congratulations to Jacqueline Houtman, a CWW award winner for her The Reinvention of Edison Thomas, on the publication of her new book , BAYARD RUSTIN: THE INVISIBLE ACTIVIST, which she co-wrote with Walter Naegle and Michael G. Long. 
Jacqueline will read from and discuss this biography on Friday, Dec. 5, at 6 p.m. at:
315 W. Gorham Street
Madison WI 53703
608.257.7888
room.bookstore@gmail.com
Jacqueline and A Room of One’s Own invite all who can to attend and learn about an influential civil-rights and voting-rights advocate few people have ever heard of.
Here’s the link to an interview by Jacqueline’s fellow author (Odin’s Promise) and Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators member, Sandy Brehl: http://www.sandybrehl.com/bayard-rustin-interview-with-co-author-jacqueline-houtman/
Here’s the link to the book at Jacqueline’s website : http://www.jhoutman.com/pages/BAYARDhome.html
CWW is currently accepting entries for all of its contests, including the one for the Tofte-Wright Children’s Literature Award, until January 31, 2015. Check out the details at http://www.wiswriters.org/rules.htm
Best wishes to Jacqueline!