I have quite a few writers that follow my blog which is great. Since I am planning to become a middle grade author, I want to bring some YA/Middle Grade readers, parents, teachers and librarians on to follow my blog. To make that happen, I decided that I would need to come up with some different content for my blog posts. Topics they would genuinely be interested in and want to come to my blog for. As I worked through the WordPress workshop I was involved in last month, I bra

Welcome to June! Many years ago, I was a young girl with a dream. Now I’m a middle aged woman on the brink of having it realized. My first completed manuscript is coming back from my editor with the first round of edits this week. I can see myself taking another step closer to my dream, to publish a novel. And it is pretty exciting. This girl has always been an avid reader. The Little House on the Prairie series and Nancy Drew mysteries were books always found on my book shel

The song by the Beatles, “Magical Mystery Tour” are you ready to go on one? I know, another double letter score. But I won’t claim that one due to the fact that it is not in the title of the blog entry today. I loved to read the Nancy Drew detective series growing up. I could relate to her and was interested in the cases that she had to solve. I remember going to Toys R Us with my dad and picking out a book about once a month. After getting a couple of them, it soon turned in