If you’ve ever thought, “Hmmmm, I betcha self-publishing has a lot in common with that old movie A Christmas Story,” you’d be right. Well, for me, it does. You see, when it comes to self-publishing, I’m a one-woman show. I write, edit, format, do my own covers and run my own website. […]
Ernestine
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I haven’t even pushed the “publish” button on Amazon for this book yet, and I’m already rethinking the cover. Here’s why. The book is called From the Bottom of the Cauldron, and it’s basically a series of 10 interrelated kind of crazy stories about a witch-training school and the kids and teachers in it. For […]
What I love the best about writing The Time Machine Girls series is the history. Because history is such a huge subject, teachers can’t really go into detail about an event or a person when they teach it in class. So growing up, I only learned a couple things about […]
My youngest daughter is busy writing and illustrating a book about her life, which at age six, is just as cute as it sounds. But the image she chose for the cover is what caught my attention the most. Of all the pictures she could have chosen, she drew our […]
I’m busy working on the next book in the Time Machine Girls series called Failures, and I’m finding that it’s hitting pretty close to home for me. In the book, the girls travel through time to visit Thomas Edison, on the day when he finally succeeded in making a light bulb […]
My book has been out for a couple weeks now, and I’m really surprised by how many people have actually bought/borrowed it. I didn’t do any advertising yet, so I’m shocked (and humbled) that even one person found it! Anyway, I wrote this story because I have three girls (and I […]
I’m just going to admit it — I’m messing up all over the place. As a new author, I had no idea all the things I needed to do. My book Time Machine Girls was up and running, and I didn’t even have any front or back matter in there. […]