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Springtime. Fresh sprigs of grass poke through last year’s thatch. The flapping of wings fills our ears as birds build nests. The first whiff of summer’s warmth on top of a cool spring breeze. These are familiar signs of spring to us. What if this was your first spring?  You’d wonder where the snow had disappeared and why you don’t have to ( Read more... )

Be sure to come back again tomorrow. I’ll be debuting a new weekly feature, Three Times A Charm. I’m so excited about it. I’ve already learned some fabulous things about fellow children’s authors, and some busy bloggers that I get to share with you. In the future I hope to bring illustrators, agents, editors, promoters into the feature as well.  I’ ( Read more... )

I’ve heralded my love for Goodreads all over the place. But now I have even more of a reason to give them a shout out!

Goodreads Book Giveaway


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Beverly Stowe McClure has posted a wonderful review of The Weaver on her blog The Story of A Writer.  I hope you share it with all your friends.

Congratulations to the winner of The Weaver from the book giveaway over on I’m A Reader’s site.  Rose Red. I will send your book out next week. Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway and, “Welcome ( Read more... )

What a difference a year makes.  At the close of 2009, I called out to all my online writer friends to suggest books for my to-be-read list for 2010. I got a LOT of great suggestions. Read many of them.

Yet this year, I didn’t need to raise my virtual hand and ask my question. Why? Because now I belong to Goodreads.  I love Goodreads!  I don’t ( Read more... )

I just finished reading a beautiful tribute to Eva Ibbotson by Laura Amy Schlitz. Stunning and emotional. Raw loss wrapped with eloquent words.

Now I’m watching Portia de Rossi stutter and stumble over the topic of her anorexia. Portia and Ellen and half the studio are in tears.

Emotion is much harder to share through the written word than it is ( Read more... )

The Weaver has a COVER! And it is beautiful.  The cover was created by the very talented K.C. Snider. I met K.C. just over a year ago and have blogged about visiting her studio before.  I feel so blessed that my little ole book’s cover was done by K.C.

Right now, there is only one place for you to see it.  I’m hosting an online Cover Love event ( Read more... )

Denise Jaden is celebrating the release of her young adult novel, Losing Faith.  It is available TODAY! I can’t wait to get my hands on this book! She’s been hosting a spectacular blog tour in celebration and today she asked the question, “What message would you want to hear if you were feeling down and lacking in hope for our future?”

What an ( Read more... )

Holy Blank Blog, Batman!

Where does the time go? What have I been up to?  Has it really been more than a week since I last posted?  I suspect a time eating wormhole.

I cannot think of any divine words of writing wisdom to share, so instead I am going to share a lot of nonsense.

Nonsense Number Uno:

This CRACKS me up! Did anyone else know this? 
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