A blessing for the New Year

May God give you...
For every storm, a rainbow,
For every tear, a smile,
For every care, a promise,
And a blessing in each trial.
For every problem life sends,
A faithful friend to share,
For every sigh, a sweet song,
And an answer for each prayer.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Awesome Announcement!

Thank you so much to everyone who voted for my essay in the 'Fifty Greatest Authors You Should Be Reading' contest. I'm thrilled to announce that I am a winner! I couldn't have done it without you, the voter! These past few months were a bit of a patience test for me. I had to learn not to wish each day away faster so I could see whether or not I'd made it to the next round at the beginning of the next month. Below is a seal I 'won.' Again, thanks ever so much for taking the time to vote. I really do appreciate it. :) 

Does it take away?

A lot of books have been made into movies over the years. Such as L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz. The Note by Angela Elwell Hunt, or even more recently, The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Some people would argue that the movies are better than the book, and others are argue still that the books are better than the movies. Sometimes, when a movie is made based off a book, certain 'scenes' that are in the book are not put in the film to save on time, or they not don't make it into the 'final cut' for other reasons. When this happens, for those who have read the book and know what's going to happen, and don't see it played out on the big screen, does that take away from the storyline? Does it ruin the movie entirely? I'd like to hear your thoughts.

 

Writing similarities

I was reading a Nancy Drew mystery the other night and I noticed a few similarities between the way Carolyn Keene wrote her stories, and the way I write the Crystal O'Mally mysteries. The main correlation between our writing styles is both of us have broken the fourth wall at one point or another in our stories. 'At that moment only Fate knew the answer, which was to be revealed in "Password to Larkspur Lane." What was to be Nancy's part in this strange mystery? And that is something which all of us, who are also Nancy's chums, are wondering about ourselves' (The Sign of the Twisted Candles). '"I just investigated it and found out those diplomas your husband has on his office wall at the police station are as phony as instant coffee." (No offense to you coffee lovers out there!)' (The Diamond Caper)

I didn't even know we had similar writing styles until I'd read The Sign of the Twisted Candles. I honestly wasn't trying to copy anything, or anyone, it's just great minds think alike. :)

Have you found out something cool like that? Where you have a similar writing style as one of your favorite authors without trying to copy them?

  

Funny Marketing Story

Marketing, an aspect of being an author I didn't quite know existed. Okay, I think I had some idea of it, just not quite sure of how to go about it. I learned by trial and error, what to say and what not to say when making a sales pitch. Whether it was to a book store clerk when asking if they'd carry my book, or to someone who wanted to buy my book at a book signing. So, after a year of polishing my 'marketing plan,' I calmly called a bookstore the other day to see if they'd carry my book. Remember, I said I'd been doing this for a year, and I'd come become an 'expert' at it, in my own eyes. Well, I fumbled around and said everything wrong, and the harder I tried to save myself, the worse my pitch became. So I finally paused, took a deep breath, and told the lady, "I'm sorry, this isn't the best sales pitch I've ever made." She laughed and that made me feel better. I learned you can never be too sure of yourself in that area, and there's always room for improvement.

December

Hey, everyone! It's December and boy is it cold outside! Be sure to keep checking back for more updates over the next few days.

Give it a try

As November draws to a close, and the busy holiday shopping season picks up, try to at least once a day stop and find one thing in your life to be thankful for. I know it might seem trivial, but you'd be surprised how it can turn the course of your day for the better. It's easy to get caught up in the grumpiness that's out there, and sometimes hard to remember at least be thankful for one thing, but I encourage you to give it a try. Pretty soon, you'll find more than one item a day to be thankful for.

Interview with Mikki Sadil

Day 5: I'm thankful for my readers. It's so much fun to meet them at book signings, or get messages from them, saying how much they've enjoyed the stories I've written. Thank you so much, guys! And Happy Thanksgiving!

Remember how I said I was thankful for people who were inspirations to me, and they didn't even know it? Well, I had the honor of interviewing one of those inspirations: Mikki Sadil.

Mikki is a recently published author. Her book an historical fiction entitled The Freedom Thief, is available on Amazon.com as an e-book. She has been working on this book for two years, and experienced so many setbacks during that time, I'm sure she felt like throwing her hands up in defeat. However, she didn't, and each time something tried to push her down, she pushed back with a stronger determination to keep going. Without knowing it, she became an inspiration to me to keep going, even when it felt like everything was against me. I was so happy when she agreed to let me interview her. And so, without further adieu, here is my interview with Mikki Sadil, author of the newly released, young adult historical novel, The Freedom Thief.

  

1. What made you pick the Civil War era?

I’ve been interested in the Civil War ever since I studied it as a kid in school. Back then, I couldn’t understand why a difference in philosophy could cause family members, as well as friends and neighbors, to go to a war where they would or could actually kill each other, brother against brother, and so on. As I grew older, of course, I realized that a difference in philosophy, be it religious, political, societal, or whatever, is usually what causes wars. But none have ever been as deadly as the Civil War.

2. Did the story come to you all at once? A little bit at a time? Was it fun to write?

I began the story as the final assignment for my first course at the Institute of Children’s Literature. I did finish it, but wasn’t quite satisfied, so I took the Advanced Novel writing course in order to finish it properly. My instructor didn’t care for it, and wanted me to write a more contemporary story, which I did, and which has become my second novel to be published next year. I then took a second novel course, and again finished this manuscript. However, this time, my instructor and I were at odds over it from day one, and when I finished the course, I deleted the entire first 5 chapters, and rewrote the whole story. The Freedom Thief, which came out on Nov. 8^th, is nothing like either of the two previous versions. So it wasn’t a “little bit at a time!” And “fun to write?” Well, at times, yes, at other times, no it was frustrating!

3. Why did you make the main character, Ben, so young? Would the story have been seriously altered had he been older?

I wanted to make this a middle grade or young adult story. The more I thought about it, the more it seemed Ben should be young enough to have his making the decision to help his slave friend escape a very daring event, and the things that happened to them along the way even more adventuresome. If he had been older, I don’t think the impact of arranging an escape, especially since it was on such a “spur-of-the-moment” timing, would have been as great.

4. Did you enjoy the research? Was it long and tedious?

Yes, I did enjoy it, but that’s because I love to do research. Actually, I research every story I write, to make sure I have all the tiniest details correct. It was long, more than 2 years, but not tedious, as it also included a barge trip down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers that my husband and I took We visited a lot of historical towns and Civil War sites, and I learned some wonderful details that I included in the story.

5. What was your inspiration for the cover? I like how the title on the front is colored in red, white, and blue. Was that your idea?

I had only a small input into the cover. My publishing company has Cover Artists that do all the covers. Her first cover was lovely, but it was so esoteric that I knew kids would never in a thousand years understand it, or “get” the idea and imagery behind it. So I sent it back and told her 10-13 year olds would never understand it. She finally came up with the one I went with, but although it is nice, I’m still not in love with it. The CA didn’t even know the story was for kids…CAs are not required to read the books…so she and I didn’t agree too much on anything. I do like the way she did the title.

6.  Are you enjoying your new job of being a writer?

LOL! I’m laughing because it seems like I’ve been writing all my life! I have, off and on, but these last few years of writing for publication have been so intense that it almost seems like I’ve never done anything else!

7.  Can we get a hint as to the nature of your next book?

Of course! The book that is coming out in the spring is a contemporary novel about a 13 year old girl ( I seem to be “stuck” on 13 year olds Here is the blurb that will be on the back cover:

My name is Alyson Joanne, but everyone calls me AJ. I have two best friends, Julie and Jaime, a champion mare, and a great family. Well, that’s the way it was. Then Celine Carroll came to town, and everything changed. Celine took over my life. Celine took over Julie and Jaime, who aren’t my BFFs anymore. Celine started a fight at school with me, and because of Celine, I got hurt in cheerleading. Speaking of cheerleading, my new partners are Lisa and Amberley (thanks to Celine), the two most disliked girls in school. And that’s not all. My parents are divorcing. My mare got hurt. There’s a new woman in my dad’s life. My whole world is upside down. I mean, you’d think Celine was some kind of evil omen, wouldn’t you? Although, Amberley…she becomes the one bright light in…well, I guess you’re just going to have to read my story to learn about Amberley, and what happens to her and to me.

The title of this book is: Cheers, Chocolate, and Other Disasters.

8. What advice can you offer someone who’s been writing for a long time and might want to throw up their hands in despair because they’re not seeing the fruits of their labor as fast as they thought they would?

The first thing I would say is Never Give UP. This past year and a half in my private life and that of my family, has taught me that no matter what happens, you HAVE to keep on keeping on. If you don’t, you will end up in the middle of a bleak, dark tunnel and not find the light at the end. But if you don’t give up, that light will come, and you will find it. The second thing is something my first instructor at ICL told me: Don’t follow the advice of so many writing teachers, and ONLY “write what you know.” That can get old and boring real fast. LEARN what you don’t know but want to, STUDY what you don’t know but want to, and then WRITE about it. Follow your heart, follow your dreams, don’t pay attention to current fads in writing because they will be gone by the time you publish, and don’t give up.

Thank you so much, Mikki! Be sure to check out her book on Amazon.com, here’s the link to it. http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Thief-Mikki-Sadil-ebook/dp/B00GJ1A7JI/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385652099&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Freedom+Thief

 

Day 4

Day 4: This one may sound a little odd, but I'm thankful for time. Time I'm able to spend with family and friends, time spent doing something productive, and time spent writing.

Day 3

Day 3: I'm thankful for friends who inspire me without even knowing it.

Day 2

Day 2: I'm thankful for my sister's artist talents and her willingness to draw things to go on my book covers.

Gripe or give thanks?

It's Thanksgiving week, and there are plenty of things to be thankful about. And, unfortunately, there are just as many things to get stressed over. I've noticed it's often easier to get stressed out about something and gripe about it, than it is to find something to be thankful for. Starting today and in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, I'm going to find one thing to be thankful for every day. I know we should be thankful every day of the year, but this time of the year, during all of the hussle and bussle, I want to take a moment out of the busy hubbub to count my blessings.

Day 1: I'm thankful for my family and friends and their encouragement of the career I've chosen.

How about you? What are some of the things you're thankful for?

Great stories to add to your collection

I read a great story last night entitled Where Moonbeams Bounce by Katie Clark. It's a short story about a young girl named Melinda who must choose between following her heart or doing her 'duty' to save her family. I usually prefer novels, but this story was exciting, intriguing, and kept me reading to the very end. It's so worth adding to your story collection! and is available on amazon.com, here's the link. http://www.amazon.com/Where-Moonbeams-Bounce-Katie-Clark-ebook/dp/B00DENTS1C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384447931&sr=8-1&keywords=Where+Moonbeams+bounce



Oh, before I forget, Katie also has a YA dysotopian novel coming out titled: Vanquished. Be sure to be on the lookout for this great upcoming novel. I was able to read the draft and will say that this is a story definitely worth adding to your collection!

Digital Seal

I've made it to the second round of 'Fifty Greatest Authors You Should Be Reading' contest. And as a little 'token' of my accomplishment, they've sent me a digital seal to proudly display on my blog, or wherever I choose to put it. (I wonder if it can go on book covers) Here it is, and I couldn't have done it without the everyone's help. Thank you so much for voting for me. :)

NaNoWriMo

     Well, it's National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Stories are being written, characters are coming to life, and plots that've been dormant  for a long time are now taking shape, both in the writer's mind and on the keyboard. What's your writing style during NaNo? Do you outline first and then write the story? Or do you go ahead and write, and then come back and edit later? I personally find it easier to write, and then come back to it later and edit. However, it does create problems, and can make the editing last longer than I'd like to.

     Now, in March, there's National Novel Editing Month where you have to edit a certain amount of words during the month of March. Do you wait for that month to role around before you begin tidying up the story? Or do you plunge headline into editing as soon as NaNo's over?

Interview with Beth Consugar

Hey, everyone, I’m excited to introduce Beth Consugar, author of Swanee Day. Her picture book is about a young swan, Grace, who learns the importance of manners. I interviewed Beth to find out just how Swanee Day came to be written, and to find out how she’s enjoying the title of author.

What was your inspiration?

This story came about for one of our Monthly Write-Off challenges on the writer’s retreat. At the time I wrote this, I was frequently reminding my daughter to remember her manners. It just seemed to fit for me.

Was this very hard to write? Or did everything just fall into place?

Writing was the easy part - it's the revising that was tough!

Did you have fun as you wrote it?

I really enjoyed writing this. It was a lot of fun, and it's even more fun to see it in print!

Swans are graceful birds, but after reading Swanee Day, we learn that manners are very important to swans. What made you picks manners as the lesson for Grace to learn?

It just seemed that I was reminding my daughter about her manners, so I had manners on my mind at the time!

Was it hard waiting to see the finished product?

Absolutely! The illustrations came one at a time, and I was always anxious to see the next one. Then when I found out the book was sent to the printer, I was on the edge of my seat!

Will there be any more picture books?

I hope so! I have some that I wrote but haven't revised. I think it's time to pull some of them out of the box. Oh, and November is also PiBoIdMo (Picture Book Idea Month), so I'm sure that will get me writing some more!

Are you enjoying the title of author?

Yes! It still seems strange to me, but it's starting to sink in. It really hit me when someone asked me what I do for a living, and someone else interjected and said "SHE'S AN AUTHOR!" That's when it became real, to hear someone else call me an author!

 

Thanks so much for your time, Beth, and I wish you best of luck with your writing! Below are links where Swanee Day is available for purchase.

http://www.halopublishing.com/bookstore/Beth-Consugar

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/swanee-day-beth-consugar/1116977448?ean=9781612441764

http://www.amazon.com/Swanee-Day-Beth-Consugar/dp/1612441769/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382460940&sr=1-1&keywords=Swanee+Day

Stay tuned for more interviews from great authors!

October is here

The weather's growing colder, the leaves are putting on their fall colors, and the sun's setting earlier and earlier. What are some of your favorite indoor activities that like you do, especially during colder weather?

Choosing the right one

I was talking to someone earlier today, and we got off on the subject of names. She likes old fashioned names, and some of the ones she listed as part of her favorite names list were pretty cute, even though I'd never heard of one of them before. I might have seen the name in a book before, just never knew how to pronounce it. But it sounded pretty when she pronounced it.

She made me think of my method of choosing names. As I've said before, I usually choose names that go with the character's personality, or I pick the name and the personality is shaped around the name. And, I usually try to go with names that are from the time period I'm writing about. It's usually a fun task, and I'll come up with some interesting combinations for first and middle names. However, I've often wondered whether or not the name suits the character. When instances like that arise, what do you do? And does it come up often? Or every once and a while?

Little Update

The leaves are changing colors and the days are becoming cooler. The cold weather will soon be here. It's the type of weather that gives us excuses to relax and read a good book. In the following weeks, I'll be interviewing authors who've written great books that will be available for purchase in time for the colder weather. So stay tuned! It'll be book stops you won't want to miss!

Personality Change?

So, the story is almost done, and one of the characters suddenly wants a personality change. He's supposed to be gruff and hard to get along with.  His personality has already been shaped and at the last minute, he decided he didn't want to be so gruff anymore! Ugh! That means I'll have to go back through every chapter and rework his personality! What do you do when one of your characters suddenly decide they want a different personality? Do you stick with what you originally had in mind? Or do you test the new personality to see if it's better than the old one?

Favorite Part

I had my 2013 kick off book signing the other day, and even though it felt like October with how cold it was, the turn out was great! I think one of my favorite parts was, not only meeting new people, but seeing people from last year who'd purchased the first book and were anticipating the sequel. There was one person in particular who liked to hang around my booth and talk with me for a while. I had a pre-order book there and people could pre-order the sequel without having to pay in advance. Now this girl was a repeat customer, she'd purchased the first book and was eagerly awaiting the sequel. And even though she didn't have to pay at the time of the order, she went ahead and paid as she placed her order for an autographed copy of Anything But A Diamond. She was smiling and her eyes were shining with anticipation at the thought of being able to read the book over Christmas break. It's moments like those, when you have readers who look forward to reading your work, that make rolling out of bed early in the morning to write, or having to sit outside in the cold for a book signing, all worth it. What are some of your favorite aspects about book signings?

It's Almost Here!

And I don't mean Fall. Yes, Fall is almost here, but so is Beth Consugar's new picture book, Swanee Day. I can hardly wait for it to hit the shelves! Click on the link to check out the cover for her book!  
https://www.facebook.com/BethConsugarAuthor

Also, keep checking back for an upcoming interview with Beth!

Favorite Writing Time

The sun's poking its head over the tops of the pine trees, robins are scurrying across the yard, and drew drops glisten on leaves in the morning light. Life is rubbing the sleep from her eyes, preparing to greet another day.

It's moments like this that make mornings my favorite time to write. It's peaceful and there's so much inspiration around me. What are your favorite writing times and why?

Authors and Actors

     A few weeks ago, I saw a local troupe perform Beauty and the Beast. The cast was great and so was the acting. Sitting close to the front enabled me to get a great view of the performance, but it also was a little bit of a disadvantage. Because I knew practically every line in every song, I found myself ‘singing along’ where my lips were moving noiselessly. I thought I was being real discreet about it, until one of the actors told me after the performance that he saw me singing along. (Total disadvantage to sitting so close to the front!) However, I wonder if he noticed the little girl sitting next to me. She got me thinking about a similarity between actors and authors.  

      Actors and authors both want their audience to be engaged in the story, as well as enjoy it. This little girl was both engaged and enjoying the story. When the prince was transformed into the beast, she gasped and whispered, “What happened to him, Mommy?” Typical question children ask when something happens that they don’t understand. During Be Our Guest, movement out of the corner of my eye made me glance toward the little girl. She was her waving her arms around in the air, and it took me a few seconds to realize she was mimicking the conductor’s movements. She was trying to conduct the big dance scene being performed onstage. Later, as Belle was tending to Beast’s wound from the wolf fight, the little girl was leaning forward in anticipation, and jumped in her seat when Beast yelled in pain. I found it fascinating how engaged she was, I’d never seen someone that into a performance before. But my favorite reaction was what she did after the enchanted objects had defended the castle from the villagers. The enchanted objects finished chasing off the last invading villager, and the audience was clapping with delight, but that wasn’t enough for the little girl. She gave the enchanted objects an enthusiastic standing ovation. After the performance was over, she could hardly wait for her mother to collect her things so they could go out and get autographs.

      The similarity between authors and actors is they are both story tellers, they just have different ways of telling a story. We authors may not always get to see a little girl jumping when one of our characters yells in pain, or get a standing ovation when the main character’s home is defended from invaders, yet we do get the joy of seeing others liking our story so much, they want to act it out onstage for others to see and enjoy.

Congratulations to . . .

Katrina and Terrie! Both of you submitted the winning name, Amelia. The prize is a free autographed copy of Revisit The Fire. It might be a little while before the novel's done, but don't lose heart. What I liked about this name was the fact that I could envision the charcter having a nice, polite name like this, but being very free spirited and spunky at the same time. Basically being the opposite of her 'polite' sounding name.

It wasn't an easy choice, everyone who entered submitted really good names! You all don't mind if I keep the remaining names for later use, do you? Thanks to everyone who entered, and keep checking back for more contests in the near future.

Wow! Such pretty names have been entered in this contest. So far, the name list reads as:

Roxanne "Roxy", Rowena

Arabella, Beatrice, Eleanore, Penelope, Amelia

Amelia, Aveline, Cassandra, Verona, Michaela

There's still time to post your entry. Contest ends at 11:59 EST tonight. :)

Name A Character Contest

I need a name for a main female character in my upcoming historical novel, Revisit The Fire. Here are the rules:

1) It needs to be 19th century sounding, nothing too modern

2) It's got to reflect a spunky, high spirited personality, and

3) Limit five names per entry

The contest ends Monday night, 8/19. The winner will be announced Tuesday morning, or evening. Oh, I almost forgot the most important rule of all. Have fun!

It's August!

Wow! It's already August! What are your writing plans for this month? Any specific goals you want to reach befor ethe month is over?

Characters

Characters are an essential part of the story. Sometimes, they seem to take the story down an entirely different avenue than you, the writer, had originally intended. It can either be fun, or it can be annoying. Depending on how determined you were that the story go the way you’d originally intended. My characters have taken my latest story down a totally different path than I’d originally planned. It’s kind of funny, to see them get into all sorts of mishaps and have unplanned adventures along the way. How do you create your characters? Do you center them around the plot? Or do you just let their personalities form the plot? I usually start out with a plot in mind, but once my characters personalities kick in, they don’t always stick to what I had in mind.  

Distractions

So you’ve got your day planned, and it involves writing. However, life doesn’t always seem to let us keep to the schedule we have in mind. We sit down to write, and something comes up. Whether it’s someone popping to remind us there’s still grocery shopping to be done, or something demanding our attention. So many distractions, and they seem to pop up when we sit down to write. One way to keep others from pestering you is to hang a sign on the door of the writing room, telling everyone not to disturb you while you’re writing. However, that won’t guarantee one hundred percent no-interruptions. What are some of the ways you combat the distractions?

Interview with Kate de los Conejos

A good friend, Kate de los Conejos, submitted a character description/intro for a writer's contest, and won! She let me interview her, and was even willing to share some writing advice with us.  

What gave you the inspiration for this intro?  Why did you pick a dragon to be the character you introduced?

Actually, a friend of ours had a contest on her blog. Her prompt asked us to write about a winter dragon, so I wrote a short vignette, just a scene, for that contest. When the ICL contest came up, I chose characters from three pieces I'd already written, for my three entries, and this dragon was one of them.

Can you see this being turned into a picture book, with a little bit more detail? 4 Why or why not?

No, because the voice and vocabulary are way too old for a PB... and, in the original vignette, the little dragon was destined to melt when spring came, so that would be too dark, also, I think.

Will there be more intros like this in the near future?

Who knows? If there are more contests! But I'm more likely to write a fantasy story that might include material for a similar intro.

Do you have any encouragement, advice to offer your fellow writers?

Just write. Don't limit yourself to the genre and age-range you're most comfortable with. And join the ICL Writers' Retreat, so you can enter their Monthly Write-Off contests. There are no prizes, but you'll get some useful critiques.

Thanks, Kate, for letting me interview you, and thanks for the great advice. I'm looking forward to more awesome character descriptions/intros, and even stories, in the near future.

Writer's Block

The deadline is looming, and the brain’s decided to go on strike or take a vacation. It refuses to give you any more ideas, creating the dreaded writer’s block. This writer’s block could go on for minutes, hours, or days. When I get a block, I either skip ahead, and come back to that particular spot later, or I take a walk to try and give my brain a break. What are some of the ways you combat the awful writer’s block?

Memorable Characters

          Who doesn’t like Pride and Prejudice? Memorable characters, and a story that people are still enjoying two hundred years after it was written. A local acting troupe recently performed Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, A Love Story, a shortened version of the play that only focused on the love story between the two main characters mentioned in the title. Elizabeth Bennett was played by a wonderful young lady, Erin H, who was more than qualified to play the role of Lizzy. Erin has the same spunk, sophisticated manner of speaking, and genteel graces the beloved Bennett daughter possessed. Erin was in an interview last week, along with a young man, Tyson W. who played Mr. Darcy, and both of them were asked what made them want to play those two characters. Erin responded with this: “It was an opportunity to do something historical, which I love, and something I’ve been reading for years.” Tyson answered with this: “A lot of people have the same struggles in their relationships today. Which I think brings a lot of people to the book over and over again.”

            Those remarks got me thinking. As authors, we want our characters to be believable, and for our readers to be able to relate to the struggles they (the characters) go through. I’m sure when Jane Austen wrote her beloved novel, she had no idea it would still be popular two centuries later. Her characters were in keeping with real people of her time, but people can still relate to them in the twenty-first century. What are some of the ways you try to make your characters realistic and reader-relatable?

Also, included is a link to my friend’s interview http://www.whas11.com/video/featured-videos/Interview-Jane-Austin-Festival-at-Locust-Grove-216170951.html

I've started working on the third book in the series! I know I'm the author, but it's going to be exciting to see what kind of twists and turns this book will take as it starts to unfold.

As June draws to a close, I'm preparing to start work on the third book in the Crystal O'Mally series. No spoilers just yet, but keep checking back because one will be coming soon.

Happy Birthday, Crystal! ;)

My book has been out for officially one year! It honestly feels as if it's been out longer, but it hasn't. I'm looking forward to the many more adventures Crystal will be having in the not too distant future.

Guess what? I've got an upcoming interview with Don McCauley from The Children Authors Show. The interview will air Feb 6/7, 2013and here's a link to the site: http://www.wnbnetworkwest.com/WnbAuthorsShowChildren.html

Please be sure to tell your friends! :)