Category: Sunday Chats

  • Entertaining Parents

    Entertaining Parents

    While I am holding you captive.. how does a writer, decades past their first childhood, but at least five years from entering those golden years of our second childhood, entertain contemporary children and the adults who read to them?

  • This Little Piggy Went to Market

    This Little Piggy Went to Market

    Some say you begin marketing as soon as you stand up before a Social Media Platform and Declare your Intention to Write.

  • Writing for Children: is there Joy?

    Writing for Children:  is there Joy?

    The thing that held me back in my writing kids’ books turned out to be all of the rules.  The only rule I could go all in with was that if you word could not be found in a middle grade dictionary it should not be used in a story, book or article.

  • When Do You Stop Editing?

    When Do You Stop Editing?

    https://images.app.goo.gl/5Jv1rkjmShgwo2TE6  

  • Self-Editing

    Self-Editing

    The great thing about the time we live in is the availability of not just books on editing but word processing applications with multiple levels of edit-checks built right in.