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Three Times A Charm with C. Lee McKenzie

Three Times a Charm is a weekly feature that spotlights authors, illustrators, bloggers, agents, editors or promoters from the publishing industry.
This week we are joined by author C Lee McKenzie. Lee, tell us about yourself.
I'm  a native Californian who grew up in a lot of different places; then landed in the Santa Cruz Mountains where I live with my family and miscellaneous pets—usually strays that find me rather than the other way around. I write most of the time, garden and hike and do...

Old Fashioned Book Fair, With A Twist

  


Welcome to the Internet Book Fair Blogfest.   
Browse more books by clicking on the button.Shopping for a child? Let me introduce my middle grade novel, The Weaver.
[image error] About The Weaver: In a town of word weavers, Mary suffers through her third year of Novice Word Weaving. Mary thinks her troubles are over when she meets a gnome-elf who grants her a wish.  But instead of weaving a better story, she's weaving strange yarn charms to accompany her still pathetic tales.
The Weaver has a little...

My Love Letter to You

I'm perusing the internet this morning, email, blog posts, Twitter (haven't even gotten to Facebook yet) and I'm awash with all this love for my fellow kidlitters. Perhaps it's because I slept an extra two hours this morning, but I'm inspired to share it with you.
Think about writers of yesteryear. They sat in converted attic rooms and pecked away on stiff old keyboards. Their fingers got all inky when they replaced the ribbon. They used that strange eraser paper (before white out). They...

Why I Write

Happy National Day On Writing!
Celebrating writing sounds like a fantastic idea to me, but then again I'm a writer.  So I asked non-writers what writing means to them. For the record, this is a non-scientific study.
Daughter (12, 7th grade, loves to write): I like how you can think of anything and make it fun to write about. I like how you can imagine stuff and put it in your story. Can be anything, a big tower or cavern, and you can make it into a story.
Son (13, 8th grade, actually doesn't...

Three Times A Charm With Melissa Ann Goodwin

Three Times a Charm is a weekly feature that spotlights authors, illustrators, bloggers, agents, editors or promoters from the publishing industry.
This week we are joined by author, Melissa Ann Goodwin, and her newly released book, The Christmas Village. Melissa, tells us about you.
I treasure wonderful memories of a happy and carefree childhood growing up in the beautiful New England town of Andover, Massachusetts. I am especially grateful to the teachers there, who encouraged me to read...

Signed Bookplate for You

If you would like a signed bookplate for your copy of The Weaver, all you have to do is share the link to this post from my Facebook page (Kai Strand, Author) on your own page or profile. Then send me an email at kaistrand at yahoo dot com and tell me who to personalize the signature to and where to mail it.
It's that simple. I'll mail out your bookplate and throw in a bookmark.
Thanks for your support. Keep loving books!
Kai

Three Times A Charm With Kimberley Griffiths Little

What is that smell? {sniff sniff } Is that the sweet scent of GIVEAWAY?
Three Times a Charm is a weekly feature that spotlights authors, illustrators, bloggers, agents, editors or promoters from the publishing industry.
This week we are joined by the lovely Kimberley Griffiths Little. Kimberley visited SoT last year when, The Healing Spell, released. Her fantastic and informative interview can be read here. But it has been 15 months since her blogview and she is celebrating a new book...

Three Times A Charm with Annie Fox

Three Times a Charmis a weekly feature that spotlights authors, illustrators, bloggers, agents,editors or promoters from the publishing industry.


This week, Annie Fox,joins us to talk about her many projects. Let's learn a little about Annie:


I am an educator who teaches through my writing. I've beenfortunate enough to build a successful career doing a combination of things Ilove to do: helping kids, making up stories, and performing (my brand of publicspeaking). I've written and designed...

Your Solution is Staring You in Your Face(book)

cross

verb
to move, pass, or extend from one side to the other side


as in cross promote.


Having a hard time coming up with content for your blog?Think before you say 'yes' because really it is a bit silly if you are.


I'm going to assume that you are somehow involved inchildren's publishing or writing whether it be as a writer, an editor,illustrator, or a book blogger. You do something that makes you care thatpeople come to your blog and learn about you. So you struggle time and timeagain trying...

Three Times A Charm With Author Bill Kirk

Three Times a Charm is a weekly feature that spotlights authors, illustrators, bloggers, agents, editors or promoters from the publishing industry.
This week we are joined by author and comedian (though I'm not sure that last bit is an official title), Bill Kirk. Bill is a fellow "angel" at Guardian Angel Publishing. Bill tell us about yourself.
Since retiring from professional life in 2008, the bureaucratic writing I did for nearly 40 years has changed to plain old fun, pure and simple.  Now...