ECHO: The Mustang Returns A New Audiobook for Children that continues Freedom’s story! It’s so new, I haven’t even updated my website yet! Here’s a sample! Alice’s best friend has become horse-crazy – just as Alice realizes she’s afraid of horses. Terrified of losing her friend, Alice is relieved to meet Freedom, Jani’s young horse. She hopes that being around […]
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If you ever wondered what happened to Freedom…
The beautiful blue-eyed Freedom is back again, this time as an adorable foal in the novel, ECHO. And yet Freedom hasn’t completely left her past behind… Will her fear overwhelm her? Will she have the courage to do the right thing? From the Back: Alice’s best friend has become horse crazy—just as Alice realizes she’s afraid of horses! Terrified of […]
Continue readingWhy Kids Need Audiobooks
Why do kids need audiobooks? Audiobooks have been used traditionally by teachers and parents of second-language learners, learning-disabled students, and struggling readers or nonreaders, and have proven successful in helping these children realize the joy of reading. But audiobooks are excellent for average, avid, and gifted readers too! Reading Rockets lists the benefits of audiobooks to kids at all reading […]
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I’m excited to announce that FREEDOM has the honor of being my first audiobook, and will be coming out in November! It is currently being produced by the talented Aven Shore!
Continue readingThe History of ‘FREEDOM’
FREEDOM has a history. It’s the first book I wrote. It’s the story that taught me to write; I felt so strongly about it that I rewrote it over and over and over, for years, until I learned the skills. It had almost 100 rejections before being published. It was published by three different publishers: Stabenfeldt, Scholastic, and now, Enchanted […]
Continue readingShackles On, Shackles Off
I was so impressed by an exercise from “Steering by Starlight”, by Martha Beck, that I just had to share. Fair warning: you may want to read this exercise in her book as well, since I’m explaining my understanding of it, which may be different from what she intended. There is a ton of other valuable stuff in her book […]
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