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Announcing the 31 Author Hunt

I’m Nobody: The Lost Pages is coming to a book store near you. That’s right, after finding success in the Kindle world, plans are to make I’m Nobody available in print. More info on that soon, but today I wanted to tell you about the 31 Author Hunt. The hunt is a chance for readers, like you, to […]

Thinking About Next Year

I made the video above for one of the workshops I’ll be teaching next year called Facing Failure: How to Rise Above Rejection.  As a lot of you know, the writing business is a roller coaster, full of great heights and huge disappointments, so the workshop is designed to encourage writers and give them specific […]

Leading from the Middle

hu·mil·i·ty      (h)yo͞oˈmilitē/) noun Among the greatest military officers our country has ever seen stands Joshua Chamberlain, a humble college professor who led his 20th Maine regiment brilliantly during the Battle of Gettysburg.  Though he had no prior military experience, he rose through the ranks because of his innate leadership skills, skills born of […]

It’s Been a While (A Quick Update)

I hope everyone has been doing well and enjoying these summer days with your families. As you can tell, I’ve been absent from my blog as of late. I’ve been working on a new book, and, as always, my blog seems to take a backseat when that happens.  Hopefully, I’ll be able to give you […]

Life’s Like That

This is my luggage. It’s supposed to be in Richmond, Virginia along with my son and I. My son’s a huge history buff, so, as his Christmas present, we had planned on spending Easter week on the East Coast, checking out all the historical sites. But, as you can see, my luggage is not in [...]

Traveler

My two daughters giggle as they play around with the video screen on the seat back in front of them, while their mother sits calmly besides them, flipping through the pages of some foreign magazine.  After a long taxi, the plane turns, the brakes release, and we’re off. As we pick up speed, the metal [...]

Our Field

They call soccer the beautiful game, and it is… especially our soccer.. Most soccer is played on a perfectly mowed field approximately 105 meters long and 68 meters wide, by players wearing uniforms and three hundred dollar high performance cleats. But not our soccer. Ours is played mostly barefoot on a narrow strip of backyard [...]

Heart Spaces Part One: Abuela’s Desk

  I ‘m fifteen, and I’ve just gotten home from another painfully long day of high school. But I’m home now, and that’s a good thing.  I trudge upstairs and, on my way to my room, see my mother through the open door at the end of the hall. The room is sun painted, and [...]

Drive

This is our van, our thirteen year old, beat up, hideously purple van.  We call it the grape around my house because of its ugly, grape-ish hue.  (I really have no idea why we chose purple, but there must have been some reason). The paint is peeling off the top now, making it look more [...]

Book Giveaway: I’m Nobody

There’s a giveaway going on at Dianeestrella.com . Visit the site for a chance to win my middle grade/YA novel I’m Nobody.  You can enter until March 7 right…here  Enjoy the weekend and the fact that spring is right around the corner. .