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Blog postContents A Fairy Tale for Writers: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?A Fairy Tale for Writers: Flight of the Bumbling Writer “No, of course not.” I stood there, eye to giant eye with a bee, and it wasn’t fear that made me agree that the bee looked anything but stupid. On the contrary, I felt stupid for imagining that Leiliaticia and the bee had grown huge; in fact, I had shrunk to roughly the size of the fairy, meaning that the bee was now the size of a small pony. And yet, standing th
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Blog postContents A Fairy Tale for Writers: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?A Fairy Tale for Writers: Flight of the Bumbling Writer
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin “Why do you want to be a great writer, Nyalee?”
“Doesn’t everyone, Nana?”
Nana scoffed as she hung the wet clothes on an old line, stretched taut between the gray farmhouse with its red roof and peeling siding, and the sweetgum tree that stood, c -
Blog postTheir climbing tree stretched out its shady limbs to soak up the last drops of sunlight. Touched by a soft breeze, the sturdy sweet gum brushed its fire-gold and deep-green autumn foliage against the old slate roof. Ten-year-old Marina scrambled up the tree. Her long, tanned legs stood out in smooth contrast against the rough, weather-beaten crevasses of the bark that chipped and fell away under her bare feet as she climbed.
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Blog postIn spite of the rain – remnants of Hurricane Patricia racing across Texas and dropping much-needed rainfall on my now-swampy yard – there was a pretty good turn-out yesterday at the Maud Marks Library in Katy, TX. I love meeting young readers and their parents! Some of the kids came in costume and enjoyed an […]
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Blog postIn the book, A New Leaf for Lyle, Lyle, tired of being known as "Lyle the Liar," "turns over a new leaf." But what does it really mean, to "turn over a new leaf"?
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Blog postA New Leaf for Lyle has placed in the Top 10 in all three nominated categories in the Annual Preditors & Editors™ Readers’ Poll! 2nd Place in Children’s Books: http://critters.org/predpoll/novelchildrens.shtml 2nd Place in Artwork: http://critters.org/predpoll/artwork.shtml 4th Place in Book Cover Art: http://critters.org/predpoll/bookart.shtml To all the readers who voted for A New Leaf for Lyle, thank you! […]
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Blog postEnter now through June 10, 2014 to win a copy of A New Leaf for Lyle! Five lucky winners will be chosen by Goodreads.
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Blog postI’ve known Carrie for nearly 19 years. I have yet to meet her, face to face, but I have no doubt that we’ll meet in person one day – sooner than later. We are sisters by choice, and have children the same age. Now, we have a book that we created together: my third children’s […]
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Blog postThis is Lyle, daydreaming about being famous. He would probably tell you that he is thinking about his times tables, or how to write a declarative sentence, but the truth is, now that he’s the star of a brand new book, A New Leaf for Lyle, he thinks he’s a celebrity and he’s daydreaming about […]
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