Tag: Ramblings

New Author Interview

The Dorset Book Detective was kind enough to want to interview me. The interview can be found here. Many thanks to Hannah Stevenson for approaching me to do it. It’s always a pleasure to talk about me, me, me. Haha! Just kidding. It actually makes me cringe a little inside. BUT, it does get the word out about my New Druids series.

In other news, I am just shy of 40K words in NaNoWriMo for my fourth novel, Freamhaigh. I am loving that NaNoWriMo forces me to commit to 50K words for the month. It’s just the right amount of chutzpah to motivate me. My last novel dragged in my writing and as such, I was very late in publishing it. No more! Freamhaigh is scheduled for an early May 2018 release at this rate. That’s my goal and I will stick to it. Promise!

I would like to shout out to the Ottawa Chapter for NaNoWriMo. The MLs planned and hosted a couple of write-ins at some local Barrhaven cafes. Great atmosphere for writing. I also now have heard more about female superheroes than I ever did. Thanks, ladies!

Emailing Trees

Emailing Trees in Melbourne, Australia.

I love this story posted in The Atlantic. I’m not a tree-hugger, but I love nature and understand the importance of trees to our continued existence on Earth.

In other news, NaNoWriMo continues! I’m now up over 30K words in Freamhaigh.

Ciao!

San Diego Comic-Con 2018

Huzzah!  I have been accepted and now registered as a professional for the San Diego Comic-Con 2018 from 19-22 July 2018!  Plus I just registered a guest to attend with me. All four days plus the preview night. So excited!

In other news, I was asked to do a guest blog spot for the Southern Writer’s Magazine. They can be found here:

It will be some time before the blog goes live. I’ll let you know when.
Lastly, Stoc sales have slowed. If you bought the novel, thanks, now please leave a review!  If you haven’t bought it, what’s stopping you?

Young Readers and Reading

Credit to Allie

Young Readers

I was graciously allowed to post this wonderful picture of someone who I hope learns to enjoy reading as we all do. I assume you do if you are reading this blog. Cause I’m an author and I write things.

I adore this photo, not because it has my first novel appearing in it, but because it immediately reminds me of how much I loved instilling the love of reading into my own children. Every night when they were little was story night read by me. The would press up on either side of me in the King-sized bed and stare wide-eyed at the pictures or words.

Each night was either a published story, or one pulled from my own imaginings. My own story was The Magic Forest; a land I made up for my kids where they would squeal with joy when I put them into the story and gave them adventures. This was a land with buttercups filled with whatever you wanted to drink. A Queen of the Bees who flew them around to see the flower fields. A non-stop talking bubbling brook running with soda pop. And a village of Teddy Bears who thought James and Katherine were the best kids ever.

Stories are memorable and stay with you – well the good ones do.

Please read to your children. They’ll love you all the more for it. Here are links to reinforce the concept:

http://www.rif.org/books-activities/tips-resources/reading-with-your-child/

http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books/children/how-to-share-books/

Edit: Here’s another link, graciously provided to me from the SEO of the site: https://www.inthebook.com/en-us/blog/benefits-of-reading-to-children/

And another one: https://www.all4kids.org/2017/03/03/importance-reading-children/

Night, night and don’t let the bed bugs bite…

Ciao!

P.S. To the person who sent me the picture and to the mother of the beautiful girl featured here: what a beautiful little girl/granddaughter you have! You know who you are! You have my most sincere thanks for sharing.

Page 3 of 3

Powered by WordPress & Theme by Anders Norén