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The Sylvan Spy
by AJ Vanderhorst
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The Casey Grimes FAQ
Lots of readers find Casey Grimes on social media, so loads of questions are constantly being asked about the books.
AJ Vanderhorst
Mar 15, 20241 min read
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Glorious News of Freedom
A big, long-awaited development with the Casey Grimes books.
AJ Vanderhorst
May 20, 20212 min read
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New Year, New Casey Grimes
Happy new year!—and maybe more to the point, here's hoping you've enjoyed some pleasant distractions lately. A few recent favs at our...
AJ Vanderhorst
Jan 21, 20212 min read
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Where in the Woods is Casey Grimes (#2)?
People keep asking me when hard copies of Trickery School (Casey Grimes #2) will be available. The answer is any day now...but since...
AJ Vanderhorst
Dec 7, 20201 min read
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Casey Grimes #2—TRICKERY SCHOOL
CASEY GRIMES at TRICKERY SCHOOL from INtense Publications is due to be published in a week!
AJ Vanderhorst
Nov 23, 20202 min read
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Casey #2 Update and a Big Award
Casey earned bronze in the Readers’ Favorite International Awards Contest, a competition that attracts thousands of entries annually.
AJ Vanderhorst
Sep 25, 20203 min read
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Casey Grimes Slow-Burning Summer Update
5-star reviews, an author interview for Wild + Free, a call for kid art and other Casey Grimes news.
AJ Vanderhorst
Jul 17, 20202 min read
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Casey Grimes Author Interview for Wild + Free
Here's an extended clip from an author interview I recently filmed for the national homeschool group, Wild + Free.
AJ Vanderhorst
Jul 14, 20201 min read
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A Call for Casey Grimes Kid Art
All this colorful, horrifying Casey Grimes art is too good to waste. So in the near future, I’ll be adding a Gallery to show it off.
AJ Vanderhorst
Jul 13, 20201 min read
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Mostly Invisible Boy is Book of the Month!
Casey is Book of the Month for June in Goodreads' largest middle grade group, Great Middle Grade Reads.
AJ Vanderhorst
Jun 9, 20201 min read
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The Book is Out There!
The Mostly Invisible Boy doesn’t just belong to me and my family anymore.
AJ Vanderhorst
May 18, 20202 min read
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The Book Debut Post
During a pandemic is a crazy time to do a lot of things...having a book debut is definitely one of them.
AJ Vanderhorst
Apr 20, 20202 min read
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Casey Grimes Update, March Edition
News on cover design, title selection and a pub date for The Mostly Invisible Boy.
AJ Vanderhorst
Mar 12, 20203 min read
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Three Things I Learned from Writing a Sequel (Casey 2)
Experience in writing a sequel is something you don’t get until after you need it.
AJ Vanderhorst
Feb 4, 20203 min read
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Invisibility Ho! And How to Escape It
Many big accomplishments have been made possible by the i-power. But invisibility has a way of bleeding over into real life...
AJ Vanderhorst
Nov 5, 20192 min read
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First Ever Official CASEY GRIMES Update!
Every journey into a secret forest society in charge of monster control begins with a single step.
AJ Vanderhorst
Oct 9, 20193 min read
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A Little Backstory On My Heroic Writing Journey
I wrote my first middle grade novel in 2013. A naive burst of creativity.
AJ Vanderhorst
Aug 17, 20193 min read
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