Thanks to all of you who have journeyed with me through the books I’ve published this year – here’s to many more to come! So, I still consider myself a newbie author – 2014 being my debut publishing year and all. But I’ve been writing and learning tricks for much longer than that. I even teach high schoolers now and … Read More
Balance Broken…on sale and on tour!
Follow along here for interviews, reviews, dream casts, and more! Oh, and don’t forget to clickety-click for the giveaway! Buy on Amazon Buy on Barnes and Noble (other sellers coming soon) 10/27/14 Mom With a Kindle Interview: “Can you share a little about the current title you are working on?” 10/28/14 My Nook Books and More 5-Star Review! and Dream … Read More
Take Some Time Off
Summer…even if you haven’t been a student in many, many years, this season makes us all want to loosen the schedule a bit. And teachers – heck, we make time off a priority. We try not to go more than four weeks without at least a three-day break. (And if you truly remember high school, you’ll know this is a … Read More
Top Five Ways to Help an Indie Author
(photo from bigstock.com) So, it’s official! I’m a published author, and now all my castle-in-the-sky dreams have come true, right? Um, you don’t know me that well yet if you think this is where I plan to stop. A spectacular, surreal moment to savor, yes, but an end, this is not. I’m currently writing a short story/novella between books 1 and … Read More
Another Lap Around the Sun: Check
If you’ve never seen the website Dear Teen Me, you should take a look. It has letters written by authors to their teen selves. Some are funny, some are full of great advice, and some are downright heart-breaking. I see myself and my students in many of the letters. I haven’t (yet) written one of those telling letters, but on my … Read More
Anywhere a Mouse Can Go
The one about grammar and rodents… In our part of the country, middle school students are taught the trick for identifying prepositions: anywhere a mouse can go. For example: a mouse can go inside your closet and induce your wrath by leaving his mousey mark on stacks of folded blankets and clothing a mouse can go around the live trap … Read More
Libras Do It With Balance
Source: Cheri3380346 (among others) This ecard pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it? But I still wanna write about it. So here goes. Sometimes I wish I were back in the 50s. No, not really, but I would be a lot less busy. Women today juggle full-time jobs outside or inside of the home, plus we tend to take on a majority … Read More
Publishing, Indie Style
So there I was, sitting at an open-call meeting of a local writing group. The man beside me had a strangely large, square volume with him that he claimed was for sale from the trunk of his car, on Amazon, and perhaps Barnes and Noble’s website. Although he hadn’t bothered to check yet. He’s already sold about two dozen copies. Not … Read More
Momma loves you. Now go play.
I remember being around eight, which means my sister was just past two. Our house was on the long edge of a racetrack-shaped subdivision: the loop. Man-O-War, to be exact, just like the racehorse. And every morning my mother would run this loop a dozen times or more. My sister and I would sit in the bay window seat overlooking … Read More