I’m on a panel for Teen Read Week with Ann Dee Ellis and Mette Ivie Harrison at the Salt Lake City Public Library. It’s going to be very fun, especially if Ann Dee brings New Baby and Old Baby and the bouncy chair and demonstrates Baby-O-Poult. Oh yeah, that is on October 14, 7 p.m.

A bunch of people I love have their birthdays. Libras rule!

On October 24, the UCTE/LA (Utah Council of Teachers of English/Language Arts) annual conference happens and will be pretty great, if you ask me. Paul Fleishman, Richard Peck, and yours truly will be speaking individually, and then all three of us will also be at…

The Utah Humanities Book Festival! Paul and I are on a panel of 2 on current trends in children’s and YA literature. A topic about which I should probably do some more thinking before October 25 at 2 p.m.

I turn 38. Which…I don’t know. This is the first birthday that makes me go, oh, I guess I really am on the slippery slope toward mortality. Of course that’s true from the day you’re born, but it feels more true now.

We get cable again? Time will tell.

A whole bunch of books come out, like John Green’s Paper Towns and, and…well, if you have a book coming out in October, post about it in the comments! Don’t let John hog all the glory!