May 16, 2010



Yesterday I had an amazing day at the Mayor Daley Spring Book Club Conference held in Chicago. It started off when I was sitting on stage with several other authors along with school officials and the Mayor of Chicago. As the MC recognized everyone on stage I was blown totally away when the crowd of about 1, 100 students began cheering when they heard my book title, Keysha's Drama.

At 1:00p.m. yesterday afternoon I walked into my authors session and got goose bumps when I entered the gymnasium and found the upper deck bleachers, lower deck bleachers and the walls around the gymnasium floor filled with students who'd come to hear me speak. I literally got goose bumpers at the sight and size of the crowd.
Several young ladies from Gillespie Middle School performed a skit called "I Got Drama Like Keyhsa's Drama" which touched my heart in such a profound way. Those young ladies nearly had me in tears and the crowd loved them as well.

I finally got my chance to speak, read from Keysha's Drama and have fun with the students. I spoke for about 45 minutes and afterwards, they all rushed up to me and asked me to sign their T-shirts and books. It was by far, the largest gathering I'd ever spoken to.