Squirrel Book!
Furry squirrels lighting the way : new book! [...]
Meet Joseph
July 13, 2017 Meet Joseph Jaquline’s favorite series of stories right now is The Devonians. She loves the short, easy to read, stories with “bright colors” (Christina illustrates the covers in bold crayon) and “big words” (the lettering is large print). Each of the Devonians stories follows a different child [...]
Yard Work Day
June 30, 2017 Yard Work Day Today was a yard work day. I love yard work day because I love to mow grass. With our push mower, it’s a walking workout where you can sing your lungs out and no one can hear you. Today I was interviewing Ethan while [...]
Mythical Horses
June 27, 2017 Mythical Horses They say that in fiction, we don’t really create anything new, we draw on our memory of things we have seen to create something new: Like the Sevokloi in Web of Deception – they are like squids with reptile bodies (leather) adapted for a desert [...]
Capturing Places
June 24, 2017 Captured Places Have you ever walked through a place you loved so much you drew scale drawings of it and built models? I love architecture. I plan each building and area – in most of my stories, even down to the plants and what color flowers are [...]
Question For Inspiration
Why do you say "curiosity killed the cat?" [...]
Eggs of Giants
June 13, 2017 Eggs of Giants One cool thing about keeping a flock of chickens (aside from the 5am alarms) is that they pop eggs out! Before we had chickens, I thought all eggs were white and exactly the same size and shape. With the first time our Buff Orpington [...]
Research for Caleb
June 8, 2017 Caleb I love to write historical fiction. Historical fiction is fiction (a made-up story) set in a historical setting. It can be following an actual historical figure, about a historical figure, place, or event, or a made-up story in a real time in history. Writing historical fiction [...]
The Real Egg Thief
June 6, 2017 The Real Egg Thief We had forty little chicks in the high brooder. It was back when our little 4-level brooder held three batches of monthly chicks in stages and by the time they were in the bottom level, they roamed the yard. (At 12 to 13 [...]
World Builder
June 3, 2017 World Builder I love creating alternate fantasy worlds. I like to make them believable but fascinating. Here’s a little step into how I build them: In Web of Deception, the world of the Four Kingdoms is vibrant with culture and history. I research elements I want, design [...]