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March 22, 2011
Little Seed
Be sure to come back again tomorrow. I'll be debuting a new weekly feature, Three Times A Charm. I'm so excited about it. I've already learned some fabulous things about fellow children's authors, and some busy bloggers that I get to share with you. In the future I hope to bring illustrators, agents, editors, promoters into the feature as well. I'm so excited. Repeating myself, time to move on.
I wanted to share this picture of little seed. Little seed is a character in one of the tales in
I wanted to share this picture of little seed. Little seed is a character in one of the tales in
March 21, 2011
The Ebb & Flow of Being a Writer
Being a writer is a lot like playing in the ocean.
Some people just take a run at the surf and dive in head first, knowing full well they may end up paralyzed from a neck injury, but the rest of us enter writing timidly. We stand just at the edge of the tide line, toes first. When the cold water laps up over our feet, goose bumps rise on our legs and arms. We step forward cautiously and slowly, getting used to the temperature as we advance.
The journey onward is unstable. Dips and unexpected...
Some people just take a run at the surf and dive in head first, knowing full well they may end up paralyzed from a neck injury, but the rest of us enter writing timidly. We stand just at the edge of the tide line, toes first. When the cold water laps up over our feet, goose bumps rise on our legs and arms. We step forward cautiously and slowly, getting used to the temperature as we advance.
The journey onward is unstable. Dips and unexpected...
March 18, 2011
Write It Out
I haven't been blogging lately because each time I sit down to do it the only things I think to talk about are tragic. I'm going to give in and just talk about them. The images are horrific and humbling. Petrifying and poignant. They've been tweeted and facebooked about all week and I still haven't been able to purge the sorrow from my system.
What's that writing advice? "Write it out." So that's what I'm gonna do, I'm just going to get it all out on paper and share it with the world and...
What's that writing advice? "Write it out." So that's what I'm gonna do, I'm just going to get it all out on paper and share it with the world and...
March 14, 2011
Recents
Don't forget about the Goodreads giveaway of The Weaver. Ends at the end of the month.
Recent Reads
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff– humble rating: Motivational Speaker –Loved the originality of this story, and the depth of the characters, and the awesome brother/sister relationship, and Rowland and…yeah, I loved it! Thanks again to Medeia Sharif, because I won this in her contest and that rocks.
Life, Liberty and Pursuit by Susan Kaye Quinn – humble rating: Golf Clap++ – So charming! Great...
Recent Reads
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff– humble rating: Motivational Speaker –Loved the originality of this story, and the depth of the characters, and the awesome brother/sister relationship, and Rowland and…yeah, I loved it! Thanks again to Medeia Sharif, because I won this in her contest and that rocks.
Life, Liberty and Pursuit by Susan Kaye Quinn – humble rating: Golf Clap++ – So charming! Great...
March 9, 2011
Happy Read Aloud Day!
Be There Bedtime Stories is offering a
free
recording today only. Click on over to their site and see how to take advantage of it. 
March 3, 2011
Marie and Her Friend the Sea Turtle by Nicole Weaver
Marie and Her Friend the Sea TurtleBy Nicole Weaver
About the book: This story is about the love that developed between a little girl named Marie and a stranded sea turtle. The story tells the struggles Marie had as she helped the sea turtle back out to sea.
What I enjoyed: I loved that the story is told in three languages, English, Spanish and French. Many families are bi-lingual and this story allows the native language speaking parent/grandparent to sit and read with the English speaking...
March 1, 2011
Attention Readers - GIVEAWAY!
I've heralded my love for Goodreads all over the place. But now I have even more of a reason to give them a shout out!
Goodreads Book GiveawayCLICK HERE TO ENTER
That's right, they are hosting a giveaway of The Weaver in the month of March. I figured this would be a perfect time for me to explain the benefits of Goodreads to those of you who are not familiar.
1. Membership is free.2. You can make friends with people who have similar reading interests as you.3. You s...
Goodreads Book GiveawayCLICK HERE TO ENTER That's right, they are hosting a giveaway of The Weaver in the month of March. I figured this would be a perfect time for me to explain the benefits of Goodreads to those of you who are not familiar.
1. Membership is free.2. You can make friends with people who have similar reading interests as you.3. You s...
February 28, 2011
March
March
According to dictionary.com march means:§ to walk with regular measured tread§ or a tract of land along a border of a country§ or the third month of the year§ or a sir name
Oh my goodness, no wonder English is offered as a major in college. How random is that list of meanings?
For this blog post, we will focus on the definition, "the third month of the year." 31 days long and many of them 'noteable.'
In 1995 Congress designated March National Irish American ...
According to dictionary.com march means:§ to walk with regular measured tread§ or a tract of land along a border of a country§ or the third month of the year§ or a sir name
Oh my goodness, no wonder English is offered as a major in college. How random is that list of meanings?
For this blog post, we will focus on the definition, "the third month of the year." 31 days long and many of them 'noteable.'
In 1995 Congress designated March National Irish American ...
February 26, 2011
Recents
Recent Reads
Torment by Lauren Kate– humble rating: Golf Clap+ – Enjoyed the new location, the new characters. Only thing that was frustrating was Luce's extreme ignorance. I'm sorry I have to wait for the next book, though.
Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl– humble rating: Motivational Speaker –I'm going to have to give this one a MS rating. I considered the Golf Clap with some plus marks because I wasn't super crazy about how much help 'conveniently' showed up for Ethan...
Torment by Lauren Kate– humble rating: Golf Clap+ – Enjoyed the new location, the new characters. Only thing that was frustrating was Luce's extreme ignorance. I'm sorry I have to wait for the next book, though.
Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl– humble rating: Motivational Speaker –I'm going to have to give this one a MS rating. I considered the Golf Clap with some plus marks because I wasn't super crazy about how much help 'conveniently' showed up for Ethan...
February 24, 2011
Make A List
Make a list;
Top three things important to you now.Top three things plaguing you now.Top three things impeding your progress now.Top three people that tick you off today.
Imagine you learn that you are very sick, now.Imagine you fight, but in 8 weeks from now, you lose that battle.
Go back to that list.
What's important now?
Many, many prayers of love and healing are being sent out to the family and friends of Lisa Wolfson (writer L.K. Madigan) today. May the loss of this beautiful person be a...
Top three things important to you now.Top three things plaguing you now.Top three things impeding your progress now.Top three people that tick you off today.
Imagine you learn that you are very sick, now.Imagine you fight, but in 8 weeks from now, you lose that battle.
Go back to that list.
What's important now?
Many, many prayers of love and healing are being sent out to the family and friends of Lisa Wolfson (writer L.K. Madigan) today. May the loss of this beautiful person be a...
