Author: wendysbookcase

What have I been up to

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Good Day Folks,

I have been busy. I am a PTO President so I have been writing and organizing a Ice Cream Social and Scholastic Book Fair for the past week. I am fortunate to have some fab Moms and Dads helping this year. I think we had 15 helping with the entire event this year. We had our library cut in half to accommodate a kindergarten classroom this year. Love those budget cuts forcing us to consolidate schools. So we lost our Early Childhood Center where all the Kindergarten classes were located in our small city. Very sad but we are adjusting. My 4th grade girls really like have the Kindergarten Kids in the school. They think they are cute and enjoy being reading buddies with the kids. On Fridays they have a reading buddy and can go down and take them in the hall and read a book to them or help them read a book. It is a nice program. It was so nice to have our Reading Heroes visit and help kids pick out books. I was pleased the Principal allowed me to show them my book. I am hoping one day my books will get into the Scholastic Book Fairs.

James Saves the Moon with Book Girl and Reader Hero

We had a ball at the Book Fair. We had to make changes. We had a scaled down version in the Library for two days then took it down and moved it to the Gym for our Ice Cream Social and Book Fair. It went smoothly(meaning everything went as planned) and was a blast. It was great to be able to chat with other parents we see in passing in the morning or dropping off for other activities these kids have.  I did manage to get some editing done and send my ideas for book marks off to the University Copy center to help with the design.  Boy I was tired last night. I was sleeping by 8pm.

If any of you host book fairs or other reading events at your elementary schools I highly recommend having Reading Heroes. The kids love it. Book Girl and Reader Hero will return in March for March Reading Month.

I also received my second illustration for my third book Tomfoolery and 13 Yule Lads of Iceland. Christmas is early for me. It is a Christmas story so I am hoping the publisher can fast track this one. The adventure is so much fun.

Enjoy Your Adventures, WB

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At peace and sad, but we will adjust

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Hi All,

Today I volunteered at our  local school scholastic book fair. It was wonderful to spend the day with Kids coming in for a sneak peak and not wanting to leave because they love books. Half of the Library was full of  shiny new colorful books.  I walked in the room in the morning and instantly I felt better. Being surrounded by such bold colors and so many books is a intense happy emotion. For me it is like the perfect warm sunny autumn day. Then when the kids came in to the Library. To see their excited faces and treating the books with respect is a very good thing. To top off the day. I got to spend the day with other special Moms and one Grandma. Every one of us picked up books to show how cute, cool, or who would like this book.We had a chance to really talk to each other. Usually we see each other in passing as we drop off in the morning or at the end of the day briefly to get our kids to their activities or events after school.

Why sad. It also made me think what happens when we stop printing children’s books. Kids love to touch, and open the book to discover the journey inside.All of us that volunteered, have a bond with books.  I think being able to turn the page and see the next illustration that goes with the special words is very important. I think touching the book the child feels a deeper connection to the book. I know we will adjust. I just wonder what a scholastic book fair will look like in the future. Will everything be online and you pick and choose the book to download. Or will tablets be displayed in the libraries where you can plug in flash drive or phone to download the book. Will we lose some of the enjoyment of the stories journey because we are not turning the page? Will flashing screens be as fulfilling and cause the same emotion? I think we may lose a little of the fun of reading when we lose print on paper.  Like all things we will adjust and it may be even better as technology improves. We may end up with holographs or just down loading the story to our brains. No written word at all.

Interesting if we lose the written word will humans start over again and wonder did we have this information before as many believe that all information or answers has always been here we lost it and must rediscover it again. Are we on this path?

Enjoy your book journeys while you can. Who knows written word may leave us and information will just be down loaded straight to our brains. Then what?

Have a good evening, WB

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Meet the Author at Great Lakes Book and Supply

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Good Late Afternoon,

Really enjoyed Meet the Author today at Great Lakes Book and Supply. Gordon Henry Jr, is a wonderful poet and his prose is entertaining and thought provoking. Really interesting fellow. Really can feel the emotions of Native Americans psyche in his writings. As he read some of his poems and prose, I found myself visualizing what he was reading to us and thinking I wish I could sit and talk with these people and characters. We laughed, and felt the sorrow as he read. He is a true story teller. I highly recommend, The Failure of Certain Charms and other Disparate Signs of Life by Gordon Henry Jr.And he is from my home state MN. Enjoyed chatting with him after the program. Gave me some good reading material to help me with my novel the aliens among us. So cool.
As a friend told me one day. Writers are now your people. Grace was correct. I connect with with writers even if it may not be my genre.

Have a good evening and enjoy your adventures, WB

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Helga Returns

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Good Evening Folks,

James Saves the Moon

What a evening it is. The moon is so awesome tonight. The moon has been big and bright all week Its the type of moon people write about. I know I did with my first book James Saves the Moon published by Solstice Publishing.

Let me know what inspires you to create

The moon appears low, so it looks like it is touching a mountain, tree, seas, lakes, and buildings. It no wonder the pagans believe the moon beams have healing powers. I went out and asked the moon goddess to heal me tonight.Go out take and look and close your eyes and feel the healing of the moon beams. Then look at the moon and you will feel better. I do.

I have other good news. Friday in the afternoon, I received the contract for my second book.  Helga Returns will be published by Solstice Publishing.

I was so excited. My illustrator Kelly Murray is happy about it too. She has friends who are ready to buy the book. So cool. Kelly and I are working on the third book. She has finished the cover for that one too. The cover is the best. I love it!  I have to get back to writing this book. Get some moon beams you will feel better. Good Evening, WB

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Special Message That Made My Day

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Hello Folks,

Discovered a sweet message in the other folder in message area on facebook dated September 20th. I sent a copy of James Saves the Moon to the sweet older gentleman who lived in the flat next to us in Iceland. He was like a Grandpa to my kids. His name is Gudmunder. He was thanking me for the book and said it was well written. Made my day. I really miss him. Like the majority of Icelanders he loved children and enjoyed having us live next door. He is featured in chapter 2 of my book, James Saves the Moon.

He use to have James my son who was 7 at the time visit him. They would chat and he would always have a sweet pastry treat for James. He was kind to my twin daughters too but they were shy and only 2. My son’s bedroom shared a wall with his flat. Our floor the second, only had two flats, we had this cool circular stairway that led out down out of the building. Our flat had a beautiful view of the fjord, downtown, and the mountains. Our liveing room and dining room had one entire wall just windows. My girls had a view of the mountains and my son’s room on the opposite side of the girls had a view of the fjord, other mountains where we would usually see the moon above or on the mountains.We could also watch the ships come in the harbor. It was fabulous.  It brought back happy times and a less stressful life style where children can come and go any time. Babies left on the door stoop in prams for their naps.Folks just stop by and have coffee, chat and a treat. My son remembers the nice gentleman and that he is a pilot and had model airplanes.  After being back in the states for nearly six years now, I did not realize how stressful our lives are here. All the silly things we worry about. Why we have to be so busy, it just seems we do not have time to enjoy life with this worry go go life here.

Gundmunder is featured again in the third book I am currently writing Tomfoolery and Yule Lads of Iceland.

Still waiting for a contract from Solstice Publishing for my second book Helga Returns.

Anyway I hope to return some day and see all my wonderful friends in Iceland again. Maybe I can have a book signing there. How Fun that would be.

To read about Gundmunder and see the picture of him in chapter 2, down load my book today James Saves the Moon

James Saves the Moon


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Get out and enjoy the adventure of each day Bles, WB