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Building Character with Ashlinn O'Hara from Wanted

Welcome to my blog feature, Building Character in which you get to meet a character from a book. Talking to a character outside of their book is fun! Huge. Amounts. Of fun. 
This week Strands of Thought is host to Ashlinn O’Hara from Wanted. Welcome, Ashlinn. Tell us a little about yourself and what your life is like.
Thank you so much for having me! This is my first interview, hope I do okay. :) I’m not really good at talking about myself. Oh, I should start by telling you who I am, huh?...

World of Ink Presents Illustrator Jessica Love

Today the World of Ink tour brings us our guest, illustrator, Jessica Love, here to talk about her collaboration with author Sands Hetherington in Night Buddies, Impostors, and One Far-Out Flying Machine.
Kai: What age range is your book for?
Jessica: I think it will appeal to 8-10 year olds.
Kai: Can you share a memory of yours or a story of you from when you were within the age range of your target readers?
Jessica: I grew up in the woods, in the middle of the Los Padres National Forest, in Sou...

Building Character with Natalie and Trudy from Save the Lemmings

Welcome to my blog feature, Building Character in which you get to meet book characters. Talking to a character outside of their book is fun! Huge. Amounts. Of fun. Be sure to read all the way to the bottom to learn how you can enter for your chance to win a Kindle version of Save the Lemmings .
This week Strands of Thought welcomes Natalie and Trudy from Save the Lemmings. Girls, why don’t you introduce yourselves to our readers?
Hi, my name is Natalie Isabelle Cailean Edwards. I’m 12 yrs...

Three Times A Charm with Jill Williamson

Welcome to the 2013 version of Three Times A Charm. I love meeting new authors, illustrators, bloggers, agents, editors or promoters from the children’s publishing industry and sharing their careers with you. 
Today’s guest is a semi-local author who I discovered when I saw her booksigning event on a semi-local bookstore’s calendar. Jill Williamson, tell us about yourself, please.
I’m a chocolate loving, daydreaming, creator of kingdoms. I write weird books for teens, love Jesus, and am a...

Building Character with Sarah Shand from A Shadow in the Past

Welcome to my blog feature, Building Character in which you get to meet a character from a book. Talking to a character outside of their book is fun! Huge. Amounts. Of fun. 
This week Strands of Thought is host to Sarah Shand from A Shadow in the Past. Welcome, Sarah. Tell us a little about yourself and what your life is like.
Hi, I’m Sarah Shand. I’m nineteen and I live on a farm outside the village of Kendonald in Aberdeenshire Scotland, in the year 2010 with my mum and dad, fifteen yea...

Looking For Guests with Character!

ATTENTION past Three Times A Charm guests and authors looking for promotion!

I've added a new feature to my blog called, Building Character, and I'm looking for guests. On Fridays I post an interview with a character of a book. It is so much fun for readers to get to know a character outside their book! You can browse through the interviews here. If you've been a guest on my blog before, but now have something new (or just something else) to promote, please contact me about one of yo...

Three Times A Charm with Sands Hetherington

Welcome to the 2013 version of Three Times A Charm. I love meeting new authors, illustrators, bloggers, agents, editors or promoters from the children’s publishing industry and sharing their careers with you. Today’s guest is via World of Ink tours.
Author, Sands Hetherington, is visiting with us. Sands, tell us about yourself, please.
Hi, and thanks for having me.  I'm an old man who lives by a lake on the edge of town with two Saint Bernards: Dudley and Maggie.  My publicist intense...

Building Character with Meg Flannigan from Love All

Welcome to my blog feature, Building Character in which you get to meet a character from a book. Talking to a character outside of their book is fun! Huge. Amounts. Of fun. 

This week Strands of Thought is host to Meg Flannigan from Love All. Welcome, Meg. Tell us readers a little about yourself and what your life is like.
Hi! I’m Meg Flannigan. I’m 17, a senior, and a varsity tennis player. I’m also dating a really hot guy named Ash, who happens to be the quarterback of the football tea...

Three Times A Charm with Janel Rodriguez Ferrer

Happy New Year Everybody! Welcome to the 2013 version of Three Times A Charm. I’m happy to say I’ve decided to continue my weekly feature – at least for now. I love meeting new authors, illustrators, bloggers, agents, editors or promoters from the children’s publishing industry and sharing their careers with you. As long as the guests keep coming, I’ll keep Charming. However, I’ll be out of town next week, but rest assured the feature will continue after that.   This week children’s autho...

A Look Back At 2012

Writing: A totally exciting year. I had twobooks published this year (Guardian Angel Publishing and Featherweight Press). My short stories were included in two anthologies this year (Wayman Publishing and Knowonder). I signed contracts for two more books to be published in 2013 (Whiskey Creek Press and MuseItUp Publishing). And expect more anthologies, the first one releasing on January 1st, 2013!
 
I finished a novel at the last possible moment. Wrote loads of short stories and saw most o...