Road Trip to Tucson

Saturday, Oct 24th I’ll be taking a road trip with fellow YA author Amy K. Nichols. We are on tour with our novels and plan to visit: Eastside Barnes & Noble at 11:00 Mostly Books at 2:00 (Giving an author talk and Q&A) Westside Barnes & Noble at...

Cinderella’s Shoes Book Launch

Book launch day is so much fun for authors. All those months of working in secret are finally revealed. Cinderella’s Dress and Cinderella’s Shoes were a joy to write and hope you are caught up in the 1940s history and the fairy-tale magic that is...

Fall YASH 2015! Young Adult Scavenger Hunt Teams

*FALL YASH is over, and the limited-time-only exclusive content is gone! Thanks for playing. Be sure to follow http://www.yash.rocks/ for the Spring hunt* It’s almost time for the Fall 2015 YA Scavenger Hunt. There are eight teems with twenty authors each! Wow,...

Tackle Your TBR Read-a-Thon Wrap Up

  What did I learn about myself during this reading challenge? I have no discipline when it comes to selecting and keeping with a set list of books. I made a manageable goal to read four specific books and I could have achieved that goal had I stuck with those...

Tackle Your TBR Read-a-thon

I get so much more done when I’m in a contest, so when I saw Wishful Endings’ Tackle your TBR Read-a-Thon, I started sorting through my half-read books (got a bazillion on the go) and picked several that I’m determined to finish by the end of the...

1940’s Fun on Netflix: Shirley Temple as a Teenager

Want to brush up on your 1940’s slang and see some good-old jitterbugging? Miss Annie Rooney is a Shirley Temple movie that came out in 1942, the year she turned 14. She plays a starry-eyed girl looking for some romance, but the official description from IMBD...