A quick post today to thank everyone who has been such a big supporter of Oscar’s Gift: Planting Words with Oscar Micheaux, a work of historical fiction for ages 8 and up. Your emails and generosity have made the e-publishing experience both joyful and informative. My father and step-mother, in particular, have been busy spreading …
From Oscar’s Gift: I liked it best when he talked about the moving pictures. He described the moving picture The Great Train Robbery so many times that I felt I’d seen it myself and could replay it in my dreams. I imagined myself hiding with the masked bandits behind the water tower, waiting for the …
On September 1, 2011, Oscar’s Gift: Planting Words with Oscar Micheaux, a work of historical fiction for middle grades, will be available as an ebook. After giving this blog a bit of a rest for much of July, on Monday, August 1st, I will begin a month-long publication-countdown series about e-publishing: what led me to …
“In the pages of the book you will find a tiny vacation of privacy and intense love.” ~ Rosemary Wells One of the pleasures of being a parent that sneaks up on us in the most delightful way is not only sharing favorite books and authors with our children, but also discovering new voices and …
“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” ~Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Detective This post is for a writer friend who …