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Creating Children and Young Adult Stories, Armed with Imagination and a Pen

What Inspires A Story

Recently I did a guest blog post about what inspired me to write The Nutt Family:  An Acorny Adventure.  It was thrilling that my book was nominated to be featured by This Kid Reviews Books.  I hope you’ll check out the full article here on Randomize Me.

Let me start off by saying that fall is by far my favorite season of the year. Thanksgiving is my holiday. I seriously wonder sometimes if it was invented just for me. I love to cook this gigantic meal and surround myself with family. That is my idea of heaven. My family can attest to the fact that I am a fall freak! It is no surprise to them that I wrote a children’s story about one of the symbols of fall…….acorn nuts.

This story took shape in the fall of 2009. My two children and I were out in our backyard gathering acorns to use to decorate our mantle and dining room table. It’s funny how a handful of nuts can inspire us.

See the rest of this article here.

 

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Book Features

 

It’s an exciting day as we have Lil Glimmer featured on Bargain Books blog today here.   Lil Glimmer is the story of a star who learns patience and sharing.  He gets frustrated when he doesn’t get his way, but in the end he listens to his mother and realizes that waiting and taking his turn is the right thing to do.  These lessons can be hard to accept as a toddler, but this story helped me illustrate these principles of patience and sharing to my own children. 


We also have The Nutt Family:  An Acorny Adventure being spotlighted on Will’s Library here. Chess Nutt and his sister, Praline, are always pretending to have crazy adventures.  What happens when these two acorn siblings have an unexpected real adventure on their own?  Things get a little bit nutty of course!

Both of these stories are available at Amazon in either paperback or kindle versions.  Click each cover to read reviews and learn more!

 

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