Rick Riordan Read-Alike

If you’re a fan of Percy Jackson, hero of Rick Riordan’s popular demi-god adventure series, I’ve got a Rick Riordan read-alike series for you: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, by Michael Scott, beginning with The Alchemyst. Here’s the summary:

“While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San […]

January 3rd, 2017 | Tags: , , , | Category: Contests and Giveaways, Recommended Books | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Brilliant Books

**Congratulations to Judie Lawson, who won the Christmas Eve drawing for Book Two!

 

As a reader, I admire authors. I’m typically generous with my praise. When I read Rooftoppers, by Katherine Rundell, I realized the problem with high praise all around is it doesn’t leave proper space to applaud the really brilliant books.

Rooftoppers […]

December 26th, 2016 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Blazing a Trail for Girls, Contests and Giveaways, Recommended Books | Comments are closed

Win Book Two

Book Two

Would you like to win book two? To qualify for the drawing, leave a comment below this post. I’ll draw a winner on Christmas Eve!

 

 

 

Holidays bring up emotions of all kinds. Stories help: they keep your emotions flowing in a healthy way. Today I’ve got two very different […]

December 18th, 2016 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Contests and Giveaways, Recommended Books | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

The Curse of the Neverland Kindle Launch

Piper’s Merry Band Members: Heads up and request for help with Book One Kindle Launch.

Book One

The Curse of the Neverland is now available on Kindle! Regularly priced at $7.97 it can be downloaded FREE Sunday Dec. 5th through Thursday, December […]

December 4th, 2016 | Tags: , , | Category: Contests and Giveaways, My Writing Journey | Comments are closed

The Merry Band

Boy, do I have a treat for you! The Merry Band poster, the one of all the girls, is here and it’s yours for free! I love all the character posters, but it gives me special delight to give you this one.

Creative collaboration is one on my favorite things. Some creative endeavors are […]

January 11th, 2016 | Tags: , , , | Category: Contests and Giveaways, My Writing Journey | Comments are closed

The Promise of Being Special

Ah, the promise of being special…

What kid doesn’t dream of learning they are someone exceptional, important, and powerful? A superhero, the child of someone famous, or the heir of someone powerful?

Today’s book recommendation is one I’ve actually quoted from twice in my weekly life coaching newsletter

December 1st, 2015 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Author Appearances, Contests and Giveaways, Recommended Books | Comments are closed

The Breadth of Children’s Books

Authors like Lois Lowry make me wonder: exactly what makes a children’s book for children? Sometimes the breadth of children’s books seems to exceed what you find written in many books for adults.

I’m just back from a weeklong vacation; grounds for lots of reading-for-fun. On the plane, I read a book of Lois Lowry’s […]

June 23rd, 2015 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Contests and Giveaways, My Writing Journey | Comments are closed

Equal Access for Readers

I’m excited to say I finally managed to get a clip of me reading from my book uploaded to YouTube! It’s also posted on my Goodreads page. Have a look!

I had an enlightening exchange with Jessica Peterson White, proprietor of Content Books in Northfield, MN, that I’d like to share […]

June 15th, 2015 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Audio Excerpts, Author Appearances, Contests and Giveaways, My Writing Journey | Comments are closed

Book 2 Preview

Those of you who’ve read The Curse of the Neverland will be happy to know I’ve been working away on book 2.

When I’m writing, it’s a bit like walking through a forest—I can’t see the forest for the trees. I have tools to deal with that, and that’s where I am now: trying to […]

June 9th, 2015 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Contests and Giveaways, My Writing Journey | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

Goodreads Giveaway

A big welcome to those of you who’ve just joined us after coming to my book talk in Northfield last week! Be sure to check out the links below to download your free character posters and coloring book!

The talk was a spectacular occasion for me — so many special people in attendance including my […]

June 2nd, 2015 | Tags: , , , | Category: Contests and Giveaways, My Writing Journey | Comments are closed