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Welcome Fellow CRR Author - Barri Bryan

I'd like to welcome fellow CRR Author, Barri Bryan. Barri's latest release with CRR Publishing is "A Second Splendor."

Welcome, Barri.



BARRI: Writing is not only concerned with how a writer writes, it also includes what a writer writes. The fiction writer's aim is to communicate, not only thoughts and ideas, but also feelings and emotions. The expressing of emotions is highly valued but not easily attained. It takes imagination and creative reasoning to communicate honest convictions and to e...

Guest Author Series - Welcome Beth Bence Reinke

I'd like to welcome fellow 4RV Author, Beth Bence Reinke to the blog today. Beth's children's novels include "In My Bath," and the recently released, "A Wish and Prayer." I've read both of Beth's books and I adore them.

STEPH: Can you tell us the inspiration behind "In My Bath?"

BETH: The first thing was reading a picture book with a little girl pretending to sleep in different animal beds – a bird nest, a cave, a hollow tree. The second was a bedtime routine with my sons where I performed s...

California Thursday - Poppies

I must admit to neglecting the blog this month, but I've been on a blog tour for "The Giving Meadow," and I've been working hard on 3 projects - 2 short stories and a novel length project, but I thought I'd pop in here and gush about the California Poppy.

Did you know it's the state flower of California? Not being a native, it's been a challege to learn about my adopted state. Maybe I'll focus on some of the basics. California is certainly a pretty state. It's a big state. New England could...

Guest Author Series - Welcome Crystalee Calderwood

STEPH: Crystalee Calderwood is a fellow 4RV Publishing Author and the author of "Angeline Jellybean." Welcome to the blog, Crystalee. Can you tell us a little about yourself?

CRYSTALEE: I received my MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University in 2008. I was primarily a poet when I enrolled there, but I took a Craft of Writing for Children class with Katherine Ayres and fell in love with children's literature. I graduated with a dual emphasis in Poetry and Writing for Children and Adoles...

Guest Author Series - Welcome K Dawn Byrd

K Dawn Byrd is a fellow Desert Breeze Author and likes to write inspirational romance. Welcome K Dawn!


Queen of Hearts, a WWII romantic suspense released in April and was Desert Breeze Publishing's bestselling novel for the month. Killing Time, a contemporary romantic suspense released August 1, also with Desert Breeze Publishing.

K. Dawn Byrd is an avid blogger and gives away several books per week on her blog at www.kdawnbyrd.blogspot.com, most of which are signed by the authors. She's al...

Tuesday Genre Writing - A look at Children's Writing

My son Joe, 2, visiting Thomas the Train

August is Children's book month here at Romance Under the Moonlight, so I thought I'd share an overview of Children's writing. Enjoy! Steph


Children love books. Whether it's sitting down in mommy's lap or curling up in a quiet corner to read, a good book gives them a grand adventure. However, writing for children is a lot more challenging than you think.

Typically, children's stories are shorter and use simply language, but a short story may not be a go...

Guest Author Series - Welcome Peggy Fieland

I'd like to welcome fellow 4RV Author, Peggy Fieland to the blog today. Peggy's book, "The Angry Little Boy," will be published in early 2012 with 4RV. Peggy's here to tell us a little about it today.

PEGGY: My book, "The Angry Little Boy," is a chapter book that will be published by 4RV Publishing, LLC, in early 2012. It's about a little boy who loses his mother in a fire.

I started writing this book a couple of years ago and wrote the first draft, about 5000 words, in a weekend. I spent th...

History Saturday - Katherine Valois and Owen Tudor - Founders of a Dynasty

Katherine Valois and Owen Tudor
Founders of a Dynasty

Katherine's marriage to Henry V was short lived, yet produced a son, Henry VI. When her son was 9 months old, he was made the King of England upon his father's death. Katherine was barely 21 and just coming into her own beauty.

The young king's royal protector was Humphrey, the Duke of the Gloucester, and Henry V's youngest brother. Wanting to limit Katherine's influence over her son, he sent her to Windsor. He was also concerned Katherine m...

Guest Author Series - Welcome Penny Lockwood Ehrenkranz

Welcome Penny Lockwood. Penny Lockwood Ehrenkranz has published more than 75 articles, 50 stories, two e-books, a chapbook, and her stories have been included in two anthologies. She writes for both adults and children. Her fiction has appeared in numerous genre and children's publications and non-fiction work has appeared in a variety of writing, parenting, and young adult print magazines and on line publications. Her website is http://pennylockwoodehrenrkanz.yolasi... Her writing blog ...

Guest Author Series - Welcome Beverly Stowe McClure

I'd like to welcome Beverly Stowe McClure to the blog today.

About Beverly: When Beverly was a child, she hated to read. Even though her eighth-grade teacher sent her poem "Stars" to a high school anthology, and it was published in Young America Sings, she hated to write. In spite of her rocky relationship with the printed word, she attended Midwestern University, read more books than she ever imagined, wrote tons of papers, and graduated with a teaching degree. Imagine that. As a teacher, she...