Portia Avatar’s Blog

Come join us at Books & Giggles. I’ll be leading a  Story On The Spot Game – A Storytelling Adventure For Children 6-12.  Authors Carolyn Cohagan and Derek Taylor Kent will be presenting there too!

It’s a Sunday night family event of stories, games, face-painting, giveaways, and surprises galore! Hosted at Giggles ‘N’ Hugs, Children’s Restaurant & Playspace at Century City Mall, the event will benefit reading programs for inner-city LA youths, provided by After-School All-Stars, Los Angeles; a non-profit serving thousands of deserving children from needy communities.

Giggles ‘n’ Hugs, Westfield Century City Mall, 10250 Santa Monica Blvd., #155, Los Angeles, CA 90067, Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 5:00pm-7:00pm

Celebrate Aladdin M!X’s Five-Year Anniversary. Enter the Author Sweepstakes!

M!X, home of Portia’s Ultra Mysterious Double Life and Portia’s Exclusive and Confidential Rules on True Friendship, turns five!

http://pages.simonandschuster.com/aladdinmix/guess-the-author

http://pages.simonandschuster.com/aladdinmix/

Girltopia is the largest girl-targeted expo ever!

Join me and Y/A author Cecil Castellucci for a signing at Girltopia, Saturday, October 29th, 9am-5pm. Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California 90015.

Come one and come all. Share your pages with us for an open-air book critique at Roxbury Park in Beverly Hills. Bring your latest pages and we’ll give you feedback and creative input!

Saturday, June 4th, 2011, 11:30am @Roxbury Park, Beverly Hills (Roxbury & Olympic Blvd)

For more information: scbwinobland@earthlink.net

Barbara Dee’s latest Aladdin M!X novel Trauma Queen is out in bookstores everywhere! Check it out and a short piece I wrote on a little bit of my own ‘tween trauma for her blog!

http://blog.barbaradeebooks.com/2011/04/tween-trauma-part-5.html

Here’s a Q & A I did with fellow M!X author Taylor Morris about my best friend. Make sure to check out her new book BFF Breakup when it hits stores on May 10th!

http://taylormorris.livejournal.com/55947.html

I bought Portia’s Exclusive and Confidential Rules on True Friendship for my three daughters and they could not put it down. They can’t get enough of Portia!

Thanks!

Joey

Dear Ms. Anna Hays,

I loved Portia’s Ultra Mysterious Double Life! Portia is a very special character that warms my heart. She seems to understand what life is all about and she knows that someday, she will find her father. I really like her personality and I’m glad that I got to experience a book as special as this one. Thank you for making that happen!

Love, Sarah

The venerable Vroman’s Bookstore has invited some of their favorite local young adult authors to write an original holiday story just for you. Join me along with Cecil Castellucci, Cylin Busby, Sherri L. Smith, Mark London Williams and Amy Goldman Koss as we read from this holiday collection for the very first time.

Sunday, December 5th at 5:00 pm, Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91101

Teen Read Week @ Exposition Park Regional Branch, Celebrate Teen Read Week … with Anna and Michael Reisman of Simon Bloom fame on Wednesday, October 20th, 4:15pm, Exposition Park Regional Branch, 3900 S. Western Ave in Los Angeles. Curious minds welcome!

http://www.lapl.org/ya/events/TeenReadWeek/