Featured Authors

ABOUT WRITING:

A Great Hook by Tirzah L. Goodwin, author of Love and Lighter Fluid: Poems of a Wild Tirzah ♥ Tirzah is an accomplished poet currently working on a humorous novel for adults. She is also the cover designer for my flying horse novels!

When Things Don’t Go as Planned, by Karin Rita Gastreich, author of Eolyn, Hadley Rille Books.♥ Sole heiress to a forbidden tradition, Eolyn embarks upon a path of adventure, friendship, betrayal and war.

Why Knowing Your Setting is Important by Phyl Manning, author of two volumes of Here, There, and Otherwhere. ♥ The first volume follows Phyl’s travels through the West Pacific, where you will try to reason with a conger eel or hold afloat a world-class sealife photographer who cannot swim. The second volume starts out in the Midwestern Plains of her origin and then pretty much stays there and in California, where you can be older, more experienced in theory but still nonplussed to be declared “dead” officially.

Turning My Life Into a Fantasy Novel by Julie Campbell, author of Sabaska’s Tale. ♥ This is an adventure in the saddle of a horse that isn’t a horse at all. Sabaska, her grandmother’s favorite Arabian, is a Traveler; a magical being that can travel between worlds. With Anna at the reins, they find themselves trapped in a fight against evil with the highest of stakes…their very survival.

Foreshadowing, A Writing Device Sometimes Misused by Connie Peck, author of Legend of the Superstition Gold. ♥ This is another horse novel for young readers, third in her Black Pony series.

INTERVIEWS:

Interview with Leila Denise Springer, author of the not-yet-published YA novel, BUZZKILL ♥ I had the opportunity to read Springer’s work in progress to my fifth graders, and they love it. Read their amazingly mature questions to the author, and her responses.

Interview with Sybil Nelson, done by her character, Priscilla the Great.♥ The Priscilla books are extremely funny stories about a middle school girl that shoots fire out of her finger.

Interview with Jeanne Bannon, author of Invisible ♥ Lola’s not pretty. Lola’s not popular. Lola wishes she could disappear … and then one day she does just that.

Interview with J.A. Campbell, author of Sabaska’s Tale ♥ his is an adventure in the saddle of a horse that isn’t a horse at all. Sabaska, her grandmother’s favorite Arabian, is a Traveler; a magical being that can travel between worlds. With Anna at the reins, they find themselves trapped in a fight against evil with the highest of stakes…their very survival.