We are going to have so much fun!  First at the Steptoe School at 1:30 pm, then at the library at 3:30 pm. 
The 2023/2024 school year is starting and Covid-19 is a little less daunting. So I'd love to visit your school--live or via the Internet. I have options for every school budget, including free. So click HERE for more details. Nonfiction can be fun, and so important to creating critical thinkers.  I'd love to help reinforce what you're teaching all year long. 

Camp Read-a-rama for SCLD--Summer 2023

More Camp Read-a-Rama images below. 

Bookapalooza in Sugar Land, Texas on April 29 was a blast! 

I had so much fun at Franklin Elementary in Pullman in March 2023.

       A sweet letter and drawing from anna, a fellow horse lover. 

I love these shirts so, so much! 

Virtual visits and live school visits!  Hooray!

Even before Covid-19, I was doing Virtual Visits for schools, libraries and festivals whenever a host couldn't afford travel and hotel expenses. After Covid-19, a lot of my traditional author visits were converted to Virtual Visits. I have a special studio, the right webcam and microphone equipment and more than 15 different presentation topics to choose from. And almost everyone can afford one -- or two or three or four. 

Want to know more?  Click this VIRTUAL VISITS LINK for the details!  We can help each other and the kids we love!

Kelly

This is my office and zoom setting!  How i love this wall of oddities.

This is my Virtual Visit backdrop. How could we NOT have a great time exploring the Wonders of Weird ONLINE?

My newest books -- and there are more to come! 

  Thank you, SPokesman Review and Cindy Hval, journalist supreme!

                        I stopped by at "New day Northwest," in Seattle, WA 
                      on  King 5 on Friday, September 27, 2019.  Check it out!

Love that so many of my Seattle friends came to the Redmond book launch for Cryptid Creatures!  Thank you so much!

Thank you, Owen! Your "Nessie" drawing is GReat!

Thank you, Cybils for naming death eaters a middle grade winner!

Kids often ask me, "What would you do if you met Sasquatch?"

The video above is exactly what I'd do. I hope it happens someday!
When I wrote GHOSTLY EVIDENCE, I did a lot of research in haunted places including the haunted house in the video above. See if you hear the voice of a very young ghost in this recording.  And let me know what you think! 

Spokane Coeur d'Alene living magazine:
​a short term editorial challenge

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​In January of 2023, I took on the job of editing this beautiful magazine. The job only lasted six months--four issues--but it was a joy.  For a look as a few of my articles--and a few by local friends, click HERE. 

I will never stop writing for kids as long as I have air to breath. My next book is A DINOSAUR FOR WASHINGTON: THE TRUE STORY OF SUCIASAURUS, coming in the fall of 2024. 

After that, it will be a sequel to CRYPTID CREATURES: A FIELD GUIDE called SEA MONSTERS: A FIELD GUIDE. CRYPTID BABIES will be released with SEA MONSTERS in the fall of 2025.  

Rick Spears is illustrating all three books, and I can't wait. 



I've lost so many pets, and I miss them all. so I'm working on a new book --  animal afterlife, true stories of pets who visited their owners After they died.  I hope it will help all of us who miss the pets we loved deeply.  the book will take time, So for now,  here's a slideshow of my animal angels. 

​Remember, If you've lost a pet and you're still sad, you'r not alone. I'm here for you!  

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WANT A STICKER?  Illustrator Rick Spears created this fun sticker design for me. If you want one, email me at kellymilnerh@aol.com and I'll mail you one. It's my way of saying THANK YOU for considering my books and my school visits. I think they are GREAT. I hope you like them, too!