If you want to buy a copy of Angelhood for someone you love this Christmas, Cyber Monday is the day to do it! Amazon is offering 30% off with the promo code HOLIDAY30. Plus, you can still get two free gifts with purchase. Go here to buy the paperback on Amazon. Then go here to […]
Do you know someone who might enjoy Angelhood as a Christmas gift? (After all, it does have that It’s a Wonderful Life kind of vibe! 🙂 ) Buy Angelhood for someone you love this Christmas, and I’ll send you two FREE gifts! A personalized, autographed bookplate! AND An Angelhood bookmark! To claim your two […]
A couple years ago, I posted one of my Monday Book Reviews on Fablehaven by Brandon Mull. The book first came to my attention because it was reviewed in a newsletter by a bookseller who had (in that same issue) included an article I wrote about how I use contemporary fantasy novels and classical mythology […]
To celebrate Angelhood winning a 2015 Readers’ Favorite Book Award, I’m giving away one free author visit to a classroom in the Chicago area. Details and entry form are here. But hurry! Contest is only open until November 15, 2015! Spread the word to any teachers, principals, and school librarians you may know in the […]
Big News! We’ve got 5 (five!) copies of the audiobook version of Angelhood to give away! Five copies of my award-winning young adult novel Angelhood have just been released to be given away as prizes! To enter this contest, simply subscribe to my monthly newsletter between September 22 and October 2 (the Feast of the […]
Soon, Pope Francis will be in Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families, and then in October, he and bishops from around the world will meet in Rome for the Synod on the Family. There will probably be talk on birth control, abortion, and divorce as well as caring for children and the elderly. And […]
As an author and middle school English teacher, I get a lot of requests from parents about what books I might recommend to their children. Since the school I teach at started early this year, I’ve already been listening to my students’ book talks on what they chose to read this summer. It hit me […]
Have you heard the news? Angelhood is now available on Audible! If you like to listen to books, you can now listen to an amazing recording of Angelhood. Voice-over artist Kaitlyn Radel does an amazing job of bringing seventeen-year-old guardian angel Nanette to life. Click on over to listen to a sample of her superb […]
In this week’s Spin Cycle, Ginny Marie is asking us to write about how we relax. One of my favorite ways to relax is to bake. And by bake, I don’t even necessarily mean “turn on the oven.” I mean making any kind of dessert. I’ll make cookies . . . Or cakes . . […]
Since my book came out in April, I’ve been engaged in a lot (and I mean, A LOT) of social media marketing. In the past few weeks (since my return from the Italy/Spain trip), I’ve had some time to really dig back in again before school starts up next week. On the one hand, I […]
