Published
Works
"The
Lady with the Alligator Purse"
Guideposts for Kids, March 2003
"Reaching
for the Stars: Maria Mitchell"
Guideposts for Kids, November 2003
"Save
That Butterfly!"
Grit, January 2004
"It's
All in a Name"
Honorable Mention
SCBWI
Writing Contest, December 2004
Articles
"Snowing
in Houston"
Robert's Snow: For Cancer's Cure
May
2005
"Take
a Trip This Summer - To Your Local Library"
KidsOutAndAbout.com
July 2005
"Use
Themed Books to Keep Kids Interested in Reading"
KidsOutAndAbout.com
August 2005
"Book
Festival Offers Unique Opportunity to Meet Local Authors, Illustrators"
KidsOutAndAbout.com
October 2005
"The
Spirit of Snow"
Robert's Snow: For Cancer's Cure
November
2005
"Kids
in the Know: The Importance of Information Literacy"
KidsOutAndAbout.com
Coming May 2007
My
blogs
Great
Reading for Young Adults
Works-in-Progress
"Lights on
Bomoseen," my middle-grade mystery set in Vermont’s Taconic
Mountains, is completed and just waiting for a publishing house to give
it a home.
According to the local folklore, the lights seen bobbing along the shore
of Lake Bomoseen and around the grounds of an abandoned castle are possibly
the spirits of a family that lived there in the mid-1800s, during the
heyday of the slate industry. Legend tells that members of the family
were murdered, but not before leaving a portion of their fortune buried
on the property.
Curiosity overrides fear for two new friends as they take it upon themselves
to do some detective work (not without a little trouble, by the way)
and solve the mystery of the "Lights on Bomoseen."
I have for several years been hard at work on a middle-grade novel, a ghost story set in New Orleans. But after the devastation Hurricane Katrina has caused to that beloved city, I'm now re-evaluating the way the story is presented to see if I can salvage it. Mulling over a few possibilities...
And there's assorted and sundry projects in various stages of completion, both fiction and nonfiction.
Hungry Cat
Asleep
in the chair,
Black tail curled around.
Pink nose twitches a bit
At the slightest of sound.
Then
as dinner is served
She displays a tall stretch.
Patters into the kitchen
To see what she can fetch.
