We're headed to the State Playoffs this afternoon (YAY), but before that, my student-athletes are answering questions about their reading habits. Are kids in sports afraid of being caught reading?

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Did you get that? In one hundred days, a couple things are going to happen. One, a bunch of kids are going to be out of school for the summer. Two, The Empyrical Tales Book III: The Secret Queen will be available from Comfort Publishing. What a perfect way to start that summer reading adventure!…

 If there is only one article on writing you read this month, make it this one: 

 A Writer's Main Objective

I have so many giveaways going on right now I decided to tell everyone in this one post so you can pick which ones you would like to enter. Some are international some are US only, but all are fabulous :) Click the pictures to enter!!! And please spread the word!

Win a paperback copy of this new Sci-Fi YA! US and Canada…

I have been blessed with so many readers of Set Free: An Amish Journey. I had the chance to try something different and I hope you'll like it.



Mark Miller (http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Miller/e/B002BOE0WC) is a talented writer who I've come to know through my new journey as an author. He has a monthly series called Mark Miller's One. It is a…

The February story (#6) of the One series is available now. For the second month in a row, we are fortunate enough to hear from a best-selling author. That's not all - there's another exciting change to the series.

 Something everyone in the query fray should have ready when the call comes. Check out this list of questions to ask the lit   agent offering representation, and have them ready for THE CALL:

  10 Questions to Ask When Offered Representation

 Check out this article and interactive bookshelf from Scholastic on the greatest books for kids:

   100 Greatest Books

 Got your beginning and middle in check, but struggling with the ending?? It's got to be a knockout to hold its own. Check out this article on how to make it great:

 Grand Finales: Tips for Writing Great Endings

In an informal survey of third graders, Trouble in the Bubbles is noted as the most liked and requested of all of my stories. It is quite popular with those "in the know".

De la Cruz Re-Ups at Hyperion

Melissa de la Cruz, who writes the popular Blue Bloods YA series for Hyperion, has signed to do three more books in another series she recently launched with the house: the Witches of East End. Elisabeth Dyssegaard took world rights to books three, four, and five in the adult series about three witches (a mother, and her two daughters) who live in a wealthy, fictional enclave on the East End…

Here I am with the fourth volume of my story published by Trestle Press. All I can do is give thanks for all of the readers that have made it possible to call this a "best-selling" series.



You can get the newest story on Kindle by clicking here:

Can you tell me why my email address isn't being accepted or what to do to get into this meeting?

So frustrating?

Am I doing something wrong? I'm a member, but can't get in.

February 10, 2012
Children's: Picture book
MY VERY UN-FAIRY TALE LIFE author Anna Staniszewski's DOGOSAURUS REX, about a boy who comes home from the pound with a most exceptional new dog, to Sally Doherty at Holt, by Ammi-Joan Paquette at Erin Murphy Literary Agency (World).

Source: Publishers Marketpace