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Morning

Good Morning lovely readers and friends,

Just popping in real quick to let you the first book in the Max Hamby series is now 99 cents permanently. It's an over 200 page novel filled with action, adventure and loads of fantasy. It's available at all the major online retailers. If you love to read or know someone who does, go grab. It's a great deal! And of course, a review is always appreciated.

If you don't see 99 cents, you might be viewing the paperback or the lower price it might need another day, but it should be 99 cents on all the sites now.

Book 5 is three quarters of the way done. We are almost there, my friends! Whew! This one took a bit longer, but there's still lots characters and things happening within the story that you'll want to check out.

And one last thing before it's time to get down writing, I do have a mailing list. It's on the home page of this site. Please feel free to sign up. I only send the list out once a month or less. It's filled with character description, places and things from the books, quotes, announcements, humor, book "recipes" and more.

Have a wonderful day everyone! :)

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A new day

Good Morning, lovely people,

It's a beautiful morning with a slight chill in the air.
I am outside with coffee in hand preparing to start chapter 23 of book 5.
There's a wild rabbit that's been living in the yard for some time and lately it's been chomping on the leafy weeds every morning I step outside. It is a cute distraction.

I love this time of morning (right before it gets light out and a bit after).
The world is still asleep. It's just me and possibly an early rising bird or two.

Can you believe it will be September in a couple of days? I would like to roll back summer and start again. ;) It is much too short and winter is incredibly long, gray and cold. It is not my favorite season, as you can probably tell. lol. I find it easier to write when I'm outside come the warmer months.

Not too much news to update with today. I am about to begin chapter 23, as I said above. Normally, I have a feeling what chapter the book will end on, but not this one. It could end with 23 or 30, not sure. There are so many characters that want to have a say and so much going on.

September 18th marks the two year anniversary of the Max Hamby series. I can't believe it's been that long. The momentum in gaining readers has been slow, but the readers that have discovered the Max Hamby series are super fantastic.

If you like or happened to know someone who likes action, adventure and fantasy, please help spread the word. You can find the series at most any online retailer and it's always appreciated.

I hope you're all doing well and feeling fine. I think that's it for the moment. Must get to work. ;) Have yourselves a wonderful day.


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Max Hamby mobile wallpapers

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Morning

Good Morning, lovely people,

I hope you're all doing well and feeling fine.
There's no current updates just yet. I'm still in the middle of book 5.
It's going well. I'm currently constructing some exciting scenes and letting the characters take me where they want to go.

I'm just popping in to say hello.
There's been a long stretch of massive heat, humidity and storms here.
I'll be glad when it begins to cool off. I hope wherever you are that it's not too bad.

There are some new mini book banners in the freebies section. I was attempting to animate them, but I haven't done that in years and found that I am more than rusty. My attempts to make animated banners failed, so they are static instead. Not the greatest, but not that bad either.

Besides #amwriting, I'll be switching around the front page of this site later today.

Can you believe summer is just about over? I know, for some of you, it has already ended as school has started up again.

I've had a few people ask about the Max Hamby series and how much I write. LOL, alot. I know I've posted how I write it some where in this blog. I write long hand, multiple times before I type into the computer. I'll take a couple photos, so you can see for yourself. It's weird and crazy, but it works for me. ;)

Alright, it's time to get down to work. I hope your day (or evening) is a good one for you. May it be filled with love, laughter and light.

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freebies

New mini book banners in the Freebies section. :)

Meet Knoxby

This is Knoxby, half-human & half-troll. He's a part of the Max Hamby book series.

The Max Hamby series. Check it out!

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Updates

Good Morning, my lovely readers,

I hope your weekend is going great for you.
Just a few quick updates this AM.

Book 5 is coming along nicely. I thought I might be at the halfway point before, but there was too many strange things happening. Max, his family and friends are on a rollercoaster of trouble and danger. I might be at the halfway point now, but you never know. ;) Either way, book 5 will be for you in the next couple of months.

On the front page of the website, chapter 1 of books 1 - 4 are free to read right now. Go read them! :) If you like what you've read, the books are available on Amazon (& other online retailers) in ebook and paperback. A review, a share, a link or anything similar is always appreciated.

I think that's it for the moment. I'll be switching up the site here and there, adding things, etc. Stop by any time or you can visit any one of my social media sites and say hello.

Have a great day, my friends! May it be good to you and yours.

K. :)

Jacqueline Woodson’s Windows

Good Morning, lovely readers,

In browsing through The Writer magazine, I came across this lovely profile & article on Jacqueline Woodson. Have you read her books, Brown Girl Dreaming or Miracle Boys?
Check out the profile and article below. And for you writers out there, she gives some wonderful advice for MG & YA.

Jacqueline Woodson compares the writing process to pregnancy: A story seeds, gestates and takes form in the author’s psyche before being delivered onto the page. And if you stick with the well-known “birth a book” metaphor, you could say Woodson has a rather large family: In the last 25 years, she has become the proud parent of more than 30 works of fiction, poetry and nonfiction for children and young adults. The prolific author, who usually works on two or three books at a time, crafts vivid prose and poetry that have won many awards, including the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement. After publishing the memoir Brown Girl Dreaming last fall, Woodson decided to take a rare break from the work.“While writing the book, I became conscious of all these connections to many of the other books I’ve written,” she says. “I realized Coming On Home Soon came from the time my mom went to New York and left us with our grandparents so she could find a place to live, and that Locomotion was connected to the moment in fifth grade when I realized my dream of becoming a writer would become a reality. I decided to stop writing until I could start again from a place where I wasn’t too aware of where the story was coming from.”

Brown Girl Dreaming is made up of short poems that tell of Woodson’s growing up in the American North and South during the ’60s and ’70s when the legacy of Jim Crow gave rise to the civil rights movement. The memoir, which Woodson describes as “a book of memories of my childhood,” explores the separations and losses in her family, along with the triumphs and moments of tenderness.
“There isn’t much precedence for the kind of writing Jackie does,” says author Veronica Chambers, who reviewed Brown Girl Dreaming for The New York Times. “There are the mega books – the Harry Potter series, the Roald Dahls, books that become movies – but in terms of literary fiction that is also accessible and offers thoughtful writing for children, there isn’t a huge group of people doing this, especially in terms of sharing the same gender and skin color.  When Virginia Hamilton won the first MacArthur Fellowship for writing children’s fiction, my first thought was, ‘Great, that means one day Jacqueline Woodson is going to get one.’”


Early years


Brown Girl Dreaming also recounts Woodson’s journey of self-discovery through storytelling. In the segment “Composition Notebook,” she writes:

I don’t know how my first composition notebook ended up in my hands, long before I could really write someone must have known that this was all I needed.
Woodson used her first notebook to learn to write letters, her name and, eventually, stories.

“Writing was the outlet,” she says. “I always had story inside me but didn’t know what it was. I got into trouble for telling stories because people said I was lying, which was confusing. I didn’t know I could take what was happening in my head and shape it into this thing called writing. I didn’t know I could put it down on paper and be calmer. I write because I need to get it out of me.”
As a girl, Woodson read Judy Blume, Hans Christian Andersen and other popular children’s authors but missed seeing characters that looked like her in the books’ pages. When she began writing, one of her primary goals was to populate her stories with diverse casts of characters. Woodson cites inspiration from children’s literature scholar and professor emerita of education at Ohio State University Rudine Sims Bishop, who suggested that reading provides windows into other worlds and mirrors as reflections of the self.

“Kids of color have not had the mirrors to see reflections of themselves in literature,” Woodson says. “They have looked through windows into white worlds but the reverse has not been true.”

Maggie Hanelt, assistant director and youth services librarian at the Truro Library on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, invited Woodson to read at the library last summer because she wanted to present an author who could speak to issues of diversity. Each year, Hanelt offers books as gifts to graduating sixth graders from the Truro Central School and, in 2014, those books were Woodson’s Feathers and Miracle’s Boys.
“On the Cape, there isn’t as much diversity as in the city,” Hanelt says. “I wanted to show the sixth graders there are different writers and experiences. Jacqueline was so well-received that one mother said she planned on reading Brown Girl Dreaming to all three of her children.”

Click here for the full article.

Book Riot Giveaway

Good Morning, lovely readers,

Came across Book Riot's giveaway and thought you might be interested. Check it out.

This giveaway is sponsored by I’m Your Biggest Fan by Kate Coyne.

The Executive Editor of People Magazine provides an unfiltered and hilarious look at her life alongside the rich and famous, as she reveals how being a fan-girl lead to celebrity close encounters she could only dream of growing up.

“Kate Coyne tells all in I’M YOUR BIGGEST FAN, her honest, funny, insider-y new memoir of her years chasing stars.” – Good Housekeeping

I spilled white wine on Lauren Groff on a boat once. I talked to Jeffrey Eugenides about roast beef sandwiches for an awkward amount of time. When I met Megan Abbott, the first thing I did was apologize for all the cursing I do on Twitter. I’m pretty awkward with authors.

Plus, you can win a copy of I‘m Your Biggest Fan by Kate Coyne, and a $100 gift card to any book retailer. Cool, right?
Read more here .

New Promo Graphic

New promo graphic that includes book 5 (coming Fall 2016). :)