The full title of this book is Nick and Tesla’s Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove: A Mystery with a Blinking, Beeping, Voice-Recording Gadget Glove You Can Build Yourself. Whew! How’s that for a title! It’s the first of my 2015 Edgar-nominated books to review. Title: Nick and Tesla’s Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove: A Mystery with a Blinking, Beeping, […]
On this week’s Spin Cycle, our topic is “Birthdays: Love ‘Em or Hate ‘Em?” I’ve had kind of a bad history with birthdays, so I tend not to like them. I know this baffles some of my friends a bit, but perhaps these two stories will shed a little light on why, when my birthday […]
This past Monday I didn’t get a Monday Book Review posted. I did, however, trek on out to my local public library to pick up some new books after getting my car out of the aftereffects of the Blizzard of 2015. Parking at the library was at a premium since they hadn’t managed to plow […]
Thanks to all who voted to help me pick a new headshot! I would have been staring at them for days if it hadn’t been for your votes. As my sisters-in-law like to say, I would’ve been suffering from Cattapanalysis Paralysis (the state in which a Cattapan over-analyzes so much that he or she becomes […]
Last summer, this book was so popular around the summer school kids that even the principal asked to borrow my copy so she could read it. After she returned it to me, it took a while before I had time to read it. And then it took even a couple more months before I had […]
In getting ready for my book release, I had some new headshots taken last month at Popio Stumpf Photography. Chris Popio did such an awesome job that I’m having trouble choosing. Can you help me pick a headshot to use for my book and social media? I got it narrowed down from 300 shots to […]
This week Ginny Marie is asking us to write about traveling for the Spin Cycle. Great! I love to travel. In fact, I’ll be heading to Guatemala for spring break, and if I can get wifi down there, I’ll probably even doing a little blogging. But for this week, Ginny has given us a choice […]
Last night I had the pleasure of being the speaker at the second week of the Winter Wine Series sponsored by the Young Adult Ministry – Northwest of the Archdiocese of Chicago. My topic was “Finding Your God-Given Creativity,” and I had a lot of fun! As I promised some of the attendants, here’s info […]
For the past six months or so, I’ve been doing a monthly giveaway in order to celebrate the release of my upcoming YA book, Angelhood. These giveaways have been run mostly on my Facebook page, but this month, the giveaway will be in person. On Wednesday, January 21, 2015, I’ll be speaking at St. Emily […]
Today I’m bringing you one of last year’s nominees for the Rebecca Caudill Award. I had it on my to-be-read list for a while and finally got around to it. I enjoyed it very much and can see why it was recommended for an award. Title: Navigating Early Author: Clare Vanderpool Genre: historical fiction Age […]
