Imagination Playtime
Building fun with Rebeccah :-) [...]
Meet Eloi
A character sketch about Eloi [...]
Doing the Boogie
Fun in the surf [...]
My Illustrators
August 3, 2017 My Illustrators I love to write. When it comes to drawing, I’m not an artist. So when I’m ready to finish a story, I enlist the aid of my team of illustrators. The latest releases, “The Mystery of the Strange Chip” and “A Clue in the Barn” [...]
Meet Jordan Binak
August 2, 2017 Meet Jordan Binak We’re going to meet another fictional character today. This one was created over 20 years ago! Often when authors create fictional characters, they pull from themselves and add strengths they want. If you study Charles Dickens, you learn that the character of David Copperfield [...]
Filling Big Shoes
July 31, 2017 Filling Big Shoes We are always trying to be like someone. Lucas is two. He is always trying to do “like Daddy” or “like Becky” (what he calls Rebeccah sometimes) or “like you do.” (that can be anyone) When Daddy got his hair cut, Lucas wanted “Daddy [...]
Meet Chip
July 30, 2017 Meet Chip There’s a squirrel in the Wooded Lands, member of the Landmark Tribe, named Chip. He’s a Crunchie (squirrel-speak for teenage boy) with a love of juggling. Chip likes to get lost watching baby animals. He especially likes entertaining squawlers (squirrel-speak for baby squirrel) with his [...]
Who You Are
July 28, 2017 Who You Are As a teen, I decided never to “change myself” for others. I watch people. I watched many relationships in various stages during my teenage years and learned that I didn’t want to present myself as something I wasn’t. It seemed that those who faked [...]
Investigating
July 25, 2017 Investigating One of the things I love about writing anything factual, like the Home Edge Readers, is the research and investigation I get to do. I love to learn about something new. I enjoy compressing it into a compact form yet still managing to include most of [...]
DVD Books
July 23, 2017 DVD Books I’m one of these people who loves real books. The smell, the weight, the way my finger anxiously waits behind one edge of a page while my eyes finish it quickly – I’m immersed in the writer’s world and feel like the book surrounds me. [...]