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National Library Week

In honor of National Library Week, here are some libraries I’ve been to, and some I visit regularly. First, here is the first library I went to as a child in Hyde Park in Chicago. The Blackstone branch of the Chicago Public Library. A few weeks ago I got a library card at the LosContinue reading “National Library Week”

Reading Middle Grade: Then and Now

Animal Stories Although I have yet to read it, I love the title of Katherine Rundell’s Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise. About twenty years ago I started collecting “chapter” books that I loved when I was in elementary school. Today they are called middle grade booksContinue reading “Reading Middle Grade: Then and Now”

Clocks Anthology

I am excited to announce that my story, Memory Jars, will appear in an anthology. The Kickstarter for this project will begin on March 24. You will find information here. There will be total of seventeen stories, and I am excited to read the others. Memory Jars takes place in the Great Hall of theContinue reading “Clocks Anthology”

Middle Grade Fantasy with Clocks

There’s something about clocks that I particularly like. Maybe it’s the way all the gears fit together with the cogs like a jigsaw puzzle. Maybe it’s the first watch I owned, a Cinderella watch with a pink band and a porcelain Cinderella figurine that came with it. Maybe because being on time is either myContinue reading “Middle Grade Fantasy with Clocks”