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The Novel Starter Composition Book
Sometimes life doles out a departure from the norm. The summer of 2017 was that for me, in more ways than one, and the Novel Starter...
Snakes. Why’d it Have to be Snakes On the Book Cover?
My adventures in book covers continued with the next book in the Amanda Noble series. I’d gotten lucky with the first book since I needed...
I Needed a Book Cover
When I decided not to use the cover mock-up with the Steve Irwin caricature for my first book, Amanda Noble, Zookeeper Extraordinaire, I...
When an International Tragedy Affects a Book Cover
In my last post, I mentioned working in a middle school library when I wrote Amanda Noble, Zookeeper Extraordinaire, now called Amanda...
Cover Up
Recently, while rummaging through old photos, I started thinking about the evolution of the Amanda Noble covers, how much fun it’s been...
A Diet of Poetry
In my last post, I wrote about using poetry in my creative writing classrooms, and how that changed my fiction writing. I'm continuing my...
Poetry Put My Prose on a Diet
By definition, prose is dull. Look it up. Merriam-Webster defines it as: 1.) ordinary language people use in speaking or writing. 2.) a...