Today, I welcome my colleague and fellow WOW! team member, Chynna Laird, with her YA paranormal-suspense novel, Dark Water. Chynna has written a creepy, suspenseful book that also touches on some serious issues contemporary children/teens are dealing with such as a parent at war, PTSD, and death of a loved one. Chynna also has a [...]

Congratulations to ERIN for winning the awesome book, Shaping Destiny by Destiny Allison. Random.org helped me pick the winner! I really appreciate everyone’s comments on this post and on the Reader Appreciation Award post also. Now, it’s back to the business of books. . . *Picture book for preschool to first grade *Young girl as [...]

Thank you, thank you to Carole Di Totsi, PhD, for giving me this reader appreciation award. If you don’t know Carole, you should! She writes a few amazing blogs (see below) and is a wonderful promoter of her friends and colleagues at her Twitter handle: mercedeskat45. I first met Carole when she took an online [...]

It seems like lately I’ve had a lot of books and posts on my theme of “helping women (and children) around the world” instead of kids’ books. This is another great book today, part of a WOW! Women On Writing blog tour, that empowers women and inspires us to figure out what is important in [...]

I’m excited to have my guest, Kathryn Schleich, on my blog today with her interesting and perfect-for-a-book-club book, Hollywood and Catholic Women. Kathryn gives an insightful interview below, but I will tell you two things. One, I met Kathryn because I edited her book as part of my freelance editing business, Editor 911. I LOVED [...]

I have so many books to review that it’s time to do a round up! First, I must apologize to all three of these lovely authors that it has taken me this long to mention your books and showcase them on my blog. I am working on a new, better system (aren’t we all?), so [...]

I am a dog lover! Any of you, who know me in real life or have seen photos of mine on Facebook or even on this very blog, can tell I love being a dog mommy! So, when WOW! asked if any dog lovers would like to review the following book, I raised my hand. [...]

*Picture book for preschoolers through first graders *Tortoise as main character *Rating: Back to School Tortoise has few words, but it is a super cute story with great illustrations. It’s clever and bright and cute! Short, short summary: Summer is over, and it is time for Tortoise to go back to school. But he imagines [...]

I’m up cleaning the house WE STILL OWN in IL. Ugh! So I’m just putting a link to a post I wrote yesterday for WOW! about a few pet peeves of mine as a writer. Here’s WOW!’s blog address: http://muffin.wow-womenonwriting.com. It was Wednesday’s post. Feel free to leave any pet peeves for any career here. [...]