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Book Awards: Who is elligible for the Crystal Kite Award?

When my book, the Ancient Maya came out, it never crossed my mind that I should enter to win the Crystal Kite. In fact, I didn’t even think about it until last week when I was voting in Round One of the 2014 awards.  Lucky for me that my book came out in February 2015 […]

First draft or fast draft? Writing Fast

As you know, I’ve never been a proponent of NaNoWriMo.  How can I write a novel that fast when I don’t have everything worked out and ready to go.  I think I may have figured it out. When I write for Red Line, I generally have to get a book done about 6 weeks after […]

Inspiration: Writing Ideas

  Over Spring Break, my family went to the Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.  Mounted on one wall was a display case full of blunder trophies.  These were the joking awards that the pilots gave each other when somebody goofed up.  There was a flying donkey, a bowler hat and even […]

Favorite Books: Time to vote for the Crystal Kite Award

Every year, members of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators get to vote on the Crystal Kite Award. Voting for Round 1 on the award for books published in 2014 began on April 1st (no fooling!).  This round continues until April 14 at 5:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time. So if you are a […]

Spring Cleaning: Sprucing Up My Office

Here in the St. Louis area spring is in the air.  The forsythia is blooming right outside my office window.  Birds are chirping. I want to be outside trimming and pulling and raking but I have a deadline.  Black Lives Matter is due in early May,  Once I meet that, I have an early June […]

Rewriting: What to do when your editor asks for a rewrite

Recently, I had to turn an outline and a sample chapter in to my editor at Red Line.  The good news:  She loved my chapter.  The bad news:  Not so much with the outline. It wasn’t that she hated it or that she slammed it.  In fact, she gave me a lot of helpful feedback. […]