The theme of how I start a new writing project comes at the right moment for me because I’m asking myself the same question:  How do I st...

My fellow TeachingAuthors and I begin this new year sharing our thoughts about our stories’ beginnings. What do we do once a glimmering id...

. Howdy, Campers ~ and Happy Poetry Friday! (original poem and PF link below). 2019's first topic rumbling around our  TeachingAuthor...

    Beginning a new story is like sunrise at the beach.  Slowly, light appears over the horizon. Brighter and brighter to reveal....an...

I've celebrated the 10th anniversary of one of my books (blessedly, still in print) each spring/summer for the past two years.  In 2014...

I only recently discovered the  Dear Teen Me site, where young adult authors post encouraging, honest, heartfelt letters to their teenage ...

I confess: I clip articles almost daily from printed newspapers and magazines delivered to my address. (Home-delivered newspapers? ...

. Howdy Campers! Happy Poetry Friday .. and... today is the (gasp!) last day to win TeachingAuthor Jill Esbaum 's brand new rhyming...

Meet my pal, Linda Skeers: Linda's picture books are filled with humor and heart. She's one of those naturally...

Last week, when Esther introduced her brand new baby board book , Txtng Mama Txtng Baby (which you can still enter our drawing to win!), sh...

     I am a thoroughly unimaginative writer. I had this pointed out to me by a second grader (!!), during the Q & A part of a school vi...

OMG!                               I M Byond :) 2day’s the day I shout to the World: this week Sleeping Bear Press releases my baby b...