Spring is in the air! Even through Michigan snowflakes the daylight is longer and the buds are bursting forth. April is National Poetry Month and I'd like to share one of mine with you.
Spring is in the air! Even through Michigan snowflakes the daylight is longer and the buds are bursting forth. April is National Poetry Month and I'd like to share one of mine with you.
As Christmas fast approaches, three Christmas Eve stories come to mind. I am thankful for the greatest gift given on the very first Christmas...
What an exciting month of writing November held for me. I chose to work on the prequel to Grandma’s Sock Drawer. As expected, the writing journey had its moments when ideas seemed stale, action stalled out, characters became boring. I’d say to myself, “You’re the one writing this thing! If you don’t like what’s happening, change it!”
I'm excited to be a part of the Rochester Hills Public Library 2020 Virtual Author Fair which is being presented in partnership with Rochester Writers.
Write a novel in a month? Crazy, right? The challenge is to write your story in 50,000 words, in just one month.
I am excited to announce that my debut YA novel, Grandma's Sock Drawer, is now being featured in the SCBWI, Society of Children's Books Writers & Illustrators, BookStop.
Grandma’s gone. Now Sukey races against time to unravel the mysteries of a puzzling inheritance – a sock drawer – from a grandmother she was forbidden to know. A note and a key to Grandma’s “most precious treasure” sends Sukey on wild adventures with unexpected twists and turns. Will Sukey learn the truth about her grandmother, unlock the questions that will lead to peace, and connect her fragmented family? And, can she find the answers before an estate sale ends everything?
Hurray!! It's finally happened! I'm happy to announce that Grandma's Sock Drawer is up, out, and available for eager readers. Follow the adventures of Sukey as she struggles to unravel the mystery of the unusual gift left to her by...
“I’m missing a piece!” My plaintive cry resounds through the empty kitchen. I imagined a beautiful puzzle, now going to be incomplete. But then I found that the missing piece had an important lesson for me...
February 2020 comes to a close, with an extra day to finish the Picture Book Marathon. Once again, creating 26 picture books in a month was a rewarding exercise. Are they all prize winners? Of course not! But there might be a seed for a successful rewrite.
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