A Day in the Life of.... is there a typical David Poulsen day? Not really as any given day could include heading out the door to a rodeo or bullriding, presenting a creative writing workshop for Junior High students or researching and writing his next novel. And if none of those possibilities exist, David can generally be found at home in the Porcupine Hills trying to catch up on writing and fencing.

Wow, talk about getting frequent flyer points—this fall has kept my travel coordinator more than a little busy. Five consecutive weekends took me to Hanna, Alberta (rodeo), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (rodeo), Halifax, Nova Scotia, (PBR Bull Riding), Prince George, British Columbia (rodeo) and Winnipeg, Manitoba (PBR Bull Riding). And during the week throughout that five week period there was a flurry of Young Alberta Book Society Author visits to schools from Fairview in northern Alberta to Pincher Creek in the southern part of the province…all in all the latter part of September and the entire month of October was a crazy busy one…and a lot of fun!!

Speaking of the Young Alberta Book Society, I congratulate YABS on its 25th anniversary of organizing Literary Artists visits to schools. In that 25 year span there have been over 13, 000 school presentations by Alberta’s authors, illustrators and story-tellers to more than one million kids. How cool is that???

And to top off all the excitement of the last few weeks, I recently learned that the The Vampire’s Visit, first book in The Salt and Pepper Chronicles is a finalist for the Silver Birch Book Award in Ontario. I’ll be attending the awards ceremony in Toronto in May of next year. As well, No Time Like the Past, which is the third book in The Salt and Pepper Chronicles, has been nominated for the Golden Eagle Book Award in southern Alberta. The announcement of the winner will take place in April, 2008.

In just a couple of weeks, the second Rocky Cup PBR Canada National Finals Presented by Dickies will wrap up a tremendous PBR Bull Riding season and I’ve been chosen as one of the announcers for that event. I can’t wait. That will be an amazing weekend (November 16-18 at the Saddledome in Calgary).

I hope everyone had a terrific Halloween and is starting to get ready for Christmas. It’s not that far off.

... David

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