• Middle-Grade Month Giveaway: The Ballad Of Jessie Pearl

    I am pleased to start this middle-grade giveaway month with The Ballad of Jessie Pearl by Shannon Hitchcock, a Namelos author. Shannon and I have met around ten years ago at an SCBWI retreat on the Jersey Shore, both of us newbies in the world of children’s literature (well, I know I was!) Rooming together…


  • “Blue” and “Comfort” by Joyce Moyer Hostetter Reissued in Paperback: Another Double Giveaway!

    Ah, I just can’t resist! My friend Joyce Moyer Hostetter, in celebration of the issuing of her TWO books in paperback, “Blue” and its sequel, “Comfort,” is circulating these two awesome book trailers. “Blue” is a middle-grade story about a girl who in 1944 “put on her overalls and became a man of the house,”…


  • A Drifiting Friendship And A Giveaway

    Nothing is constant in the Universe,  except change, great philosophers say. (Change — and love, I would add — sorry Heraclitus!) Have you ever experienced these changes when it comes to friendships? What was the longest friendship you have ever had — and have you managed to keep it going strong through the years? What…