How fun is this? I got to join some fellow authors at a corporate spelling bee to raise money for literacy! I’d never been to a corporate spelling bee, and this experience was awesome. Participants raised money for The Literary Council of Greater Waukesha and even dressed the part for the literary theme of “Where […]
Had a wonderful book launch for my young adult fantasy, God Awful Loser, held Friday night at the incomparable Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee. Thank you so much to all of my friends and family — and complete strangers (but soon to be friends) — who came out to hear me babble about my book. […]
We are just a day ahead of my book launch, and in advance of it I chatted it up on Milwaukee’s favorite talk show, The Morning Blend. Hosts Molly Fay, Tiffany Ogle, and I talked about the light-hearted fun mythology can offer readers, my transition from writing news to now writing fiction, and of course […]
Wisconsin really should be one of the states you think of when asked to name a place with a deep pool of talent. The high number of acclaimed children’s book authors is truly impressive, and we should be proud. Lucky me, I got to spend an afternoon with some of those incredible talents at the […]
Three weeks from today I will be at my book launch. It’s happening at Boswell Books on May 8th at 7 p.m. and of course you’re invited. I admit to being awed that the book launch is my own. I’ve been to quite a few launches, being a member of the state’s writers’ association and […]
Yessss! My young adult novel, God Awful Loser, is now available for pre-order at Amazon. You can get the hardcover edition or the Kindle eBook edition. If you live near Milwaukee, WI, however, and would like your book personally signed, come on down to my book launch party on May 8th at 7pm at Boswell […]
I’m so excited to announce the date and time for the BOOK LAUNCH of my young adult novel, God Awful Loser! Drumroll please! Drrrrrrrrrrrrrrr (that’s my drumroll… 🙂 ….) my official launch will be FRIDAY, MAY 8th, at 7 p.m. at Milwaukee’s own Boswell Books! AND, more great news — it’s part of the celebrations […]
Tomorrow is World Read Aloud Day, celebrated the first Wednesday of March as a way to promote literacy and the shared word. I think most of us adults equate reading aloud as something we do with children. I certainly did a great deal of that. Heck, I’d even change my voice for the characters because […]
I just finished reading the young adult novella The Edge of Nowhere by John Smelcer. It’s an adventure story about a discontented teenage boy who, in trying to help his dog, gets swept over the side of his father’s salmon fishing boat during a storm and must survive the Alaskan wilderness to make it back […]
I’ve been converting some of my old TV news tapes to digital, and I found a report wherein I very enthusiastically explain the afterlife myths of Ancient Egyptians for an upcoming museum exhibit. I go pretty in depth, and the anchors’ reactions are priceless. My upcoming novel, God Awful Loser, is about Roman mythology, and […]