Publication Date: October 12, 2021
Jake had drifted to Japan without any serious intent, and it was going… okay. He had made friends in the local Salsa community, his Japanese was improving, but...
I’ve always had an interest in how language works. When I was old enough to discover that languages were derivatives of a root language, I was hooked.
Latin was amazing. And I found...
Publication Date: July 20, 2019
Homeschooling and Working While Shaping Amazing Learners is a nuts to bolts guide for working parents who want to groom exceptional learners through the flexibility of homeschooling. Learn...
Publication Date: September 1, 2021
A secret fear.
An antique pocket watch with a tragic past.
When 8th grader Caleb Meyer stumbles upon the old watch at an abandoned railroad museum, he's sure that if...
Christmas in my home means a lot of things. It means dusting off the decorations I put away in January, taking a moment to admire each one and perhaps reminisce about the...
Today we welcome children's book author, Lisa Jacovsky!
What drives your story forward in your books the most, the characters or the plot, or do you feel they are intertwined?
I feel like Emma...
There’s an ongoing debate in the historical novelist community about what liberties authors can take with history, where it’s all right to invent things for the sake of the story, and what...
Most kids play pretend. It’s the nature of childhood. We imagine we’re in different roles, with different names, different personas. Or we grab an ordinary toy and make it something extraordinary in...
One of the aspects of being an author who writes on spec is that it plays to one of my weaknesses, perhaps to my greatest weakness—self-discipline. I can set writing goals, and...
The Limits of Limelight, the title of my fourteenth novel, illuminates the inherent conflict its protagonist, the story’s real-life inspiration, must contend with.
In July of 1931, Ginger Rogers and her mother Lela...
Publication Date: September 26, 2021
The art director of Kids Press, Amy Shepherd has been assigned to reinvent the story of Goldilocks, and she finds her own life reflecting a similar tale. Will...
New Jersey has a reputation for many things. They filmed The Sopranos here. We’re home to Princeton University. The taxes are high, but the beaches are decent. What is less well known...