March 18, 2013
Did you ever look at something but not really see it? That was my relationship with birds for the longest time. I knew...
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My life in 8 words: "Above the clouds but still learning to fly"
November 12, 2012
November brings to mind so many things that are good for the soul: gold and red leaves swirling in the wind, warm pumpkin pie...
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November 12, 2012
When I was kid, the moment the first fall leaf crunched underfoot, I had Halloween on the brain. I spent as much time as...
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September 5, 2012
I love chatting about my life outside of writing here, but since today is launch day for my new tween novel,...
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July 23, 2012
I long to visit faraway places. Some I have written about in my fiction and nonfiction books and others I just want to see –...
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April 3, 2012
I can still remember how nervous I was doing my first Skype author visit with a school in Virginia a year ago. As a children’s...
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January 23, 2012
It’s been snowing this week in typically rainy Seattle—big, juicy white flakes you can catch on your tongue. Here in the...
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November 26, 2011
I love what I do for a living. Most of the time. Like any job, though, it has its challenges. Sometimes, the words don’t come...
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September 6, 2011
Not long ago, I found myself with 36,644 of my closest soccer compadres at Century Link Field in Seattle, cheering like mad as...
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June 16, 2011
For 37 years, my dad worked for Boeing as a computer programmer, before retiring some years back. He did some pretty amazing...
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April 19, 2011
As the third book in my Secrets of a Lab Rat series goes out into the world, I am thinking about the people who are, as...
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March 18, 2011
I know writers are supposed to say we are romantic souls, inspired by the finest in music, poetry, art, nature, and humanity....
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December 29, 2010
Some of my greatest joys and some of my greatest sorrows have occurred around the holidays. Or maybe it’s that I am more aware...
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September 21, 2010
I adore crisp autumn days, the roar of a football crowd, leaves crunching under my feet, and, most importantly, the start of a...
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July 28, 2010
I tracked the falcon across the Sun as it banked sharply left, then swooped in low between the fir trees. He was...
June 22, 2010
I am happiest when it rains. Maybe it’s because I’ve lived most of my life in the soggy Pacific Northwest, but I...
May 4, 2010
You know how writers are supposed to tap into their inner angst for inspiration and authenticity? I...
April 7, 2010
I've written sixty fiction and nonfiction titles for children, covering fascinating and complex...
March 10, 2010
I’d much rather listen to a speech than give one. Nerves may have something to do with it, but I...
February 9, 2010
It’s launch day for Secrets of a Lab Rat #2: Mom, There’s a Dinosaur in Beeson’s Lake. Scab McNally, the main character in...
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January 19, 2010
Haiti. There is only one word I can think to describe it: heartbreaking. If you’re like me, you want desperately to reach...
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December 10, 2009
We’ve lived in our home for three and a half years and for three and a half years I have contemplated re-painting the light...
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October 27, 2009
In the early years of my marriage, I was working 50+ hours a week as a television news reporter in a little town in Eastern...
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August 24, 2009
“There’s a pileated and her baby at the suet!”
Faster than you can say, “procrastinating writer,” I am skidding...
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June 8, 2009
I admit it. I am a weather-a-holic. I love anything that has to do with the weather, from cloud watching to storm chasing to...
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January 12, 2009
It's an exciting time as we get set to launch the first book in the Secrets series, No Girls Allowed (Dogs Okay). Up until now,...
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Confessions of a Bird-a-holicMar 19, 2013
Author Appearances have been announced:
Find Trudi Trueit appearancesNov 14, 2012
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Wonderful, Wonderful NovemberNov 13, 2012
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It was a Dark & Stormy Halloween (Really!) ...Nov 13, 2012
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Taking Back Your PowerSep 06, 2012
Stealing Popular will be released on September 04, 2012 in Trade Paperback, eBook
Sep 04, 2012
Stealing Popular is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
Sep 04, 2012
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Chapter 1 from Stealing PopularAug 25, 2012
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Come Fly With Me ... If You Dare!Jul 24, 2012
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Getting Real with Virtual VisitsApr 04, 2012
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Snows of InspirationJan 24, 2012
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Live Your DreamNov 27, 2011
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Gooooooaaaaaaaal!Sep 07, 2011
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A Father's LoveJun 17, 2011
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Chapter 1 from Scab for Treasurer?Apr 20, 2011
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Lift Your Glass!Apr 20, 2011
Trudi Trueit's Books
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Stealing PopularOne girl decides to take back the popularity--and the power--from the queen bees at her middle school.Read More
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Scab for Treasurer?Wacky middle-grade hijinks in Trudi Trueit's third title in the well reviewed Secrets of a Lab Rat series.Read More
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No Girls Allowed (Dogs Okay)Wacky middle-grade hijinks in Trudi Trueit's No Girls Allowed, Dogs Okay, first title in the well reviewed Secrets of a Lab Rat series.Read More
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Mom, There's a Dinosaur in Beeson's LakeWacky middle-grade hijinks in Trudi Trueit's Mom, There's a Dinosaur in Beeson's Lake, second title in the well reviewed Secrets of a Lab Rat series.Read More
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Trudi Trueit Revealed
Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Anything worth having takes everything you've got
Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain?
A. Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights
Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
A. the piano
Q. What’s your fantasy profession?
A. Spy (but I'd settle for private investigator)
Q. If you could meet any historical character, who would it be and what would you say to him or her?
A. Thomas Jefferson. I wrote a biography about him, and found him to be a fascinating, brilliant, complex person. I would love to get his impressions of the global marketplace, modern politics, and the first African-American president of the United States.
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Authors on the Web
Dallas Morning News, November 5, 2012
...Click here for more demographic information on Frisco. The Frisco Public Library will host a virtual chat with Trudi Trueit, the author of the popular middle grade series, Secrets of a Lab Rat and Julep O’Toole. The free chat will be at 3 p.m. Nov....
