Penny Warner Visited SJ SinC
Penny Warner writes cozies for adults and a great series for children. She came to visit the San Joaquin Chapter of Sisters in Crime and talked about her books and also gave us some promotion tips. She's always a fun speaker. Her children's books are all about codes and decoding, and she said sometimes the kids write to her in code and she has a tough time deciphering them. This is the latest in the code buster series. I bought all three of the books for one of my great-granddaughters who likes to read. This is her latest mystery series which she is writing under the name of Penny Pike. I've started reading this one and it's delightful. What Penny said about marketing: An author in the audience complained about the time taken from his writing to promote. Her answer, everyone has to do it. She does something special to give out for every book--made toe tags for one book, sign language cookies for her books with the deaf newspa...