Dollar-for-dollar grant funding available for my Texas author visits in winter and spring 2027
As a Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) Texas Touring [...]
August 2026 giveaway (and a message from your fellow human): Win 1 of 4 signed copies of The Day-Glo Brothers
This is The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob [...]
July 2026 giveaway: Win 1 of 4 signed copies of We Match!
This month brings the exclusive reveal -- to subscribers to [...]
Whoosh! and 250+ additional titles for U.S. history reading
More than a third of my 25 published books have [...]
June 2026 giveaway: Win 1 of 4 signed copies of How to Make a Book (About My Dog)
Ten years ago this month, when I left my day [...]
August 3 application deadline for Texas grants for my September-December 2026 author visits
As a Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) Texas Touring [...]
Don’t miss the KidTime StoryTime readaloud of Whoosh!
I've seen quite a few readalouds of Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson's [...]
May 2026 giveaway: Win 1 of 4 signed copies of 88 Instruments
This summer will mark the tenth anniversary of the publication [...]
I’m the new president of the Texas Institute of Letters!
The most common reaction I get from folks who learn [...]
April 2026 giveaway: Win 1 of 4 signed sets of Dazzle Ships and All of a Sudden and Forever
One of the very first people I ran into at [...]
“An inspiration”
In a postscript to the situation I wrote about a [...]
Feedback from my April 2025-March 2026 author-visit hosts, pt. 4: “What stood out about the feedback that you received after Chris’ visit?”
Here I am during one of my 120 presentations [...]