My goodness I have been busy. I wrapped up hopefully the final edits for my third kids book. It is called Tomfoolery and 13 Yule Lads of Iceland. It sure is a fun adventure and the illustrations by Kelly Murray are fabulous. Should release in July. I have been working on my novel and 4th James Adventure. Soon I will have a website up and running. It is going to be a fun adventure too.Check out the sale going on below. Have a grand adventure WB
Cool news today April 15 through April 26th all Kindle Ebook Lil Anchors Titles will be 99 cents in the U.S Amazon Market and UK Amazon Market £0.77 .
It has been forever and a day since my last post. I really need to get better at blogging.
Its the 13th and love that number. I will be on Twitter Chat tonight. Hash tag is #helgareturns come join me at 6:30 pm eastern.
I am having problems being clever today.
So many things happening.
There is a book blast going on on many blogs with a rafflecopter. You can enter to win a swag pack at the bottom of this post. You have until April 3rd
It is pretty cool to see your books on so many blogs. My publisher Anchor Group Publishing set up this up. Love this adventure.
My two books look great and kids are having a grand adventure reading them. 😀
If you purchase my books in print or ebook I will gladly send you a signed book plate to adhere inside the cover.
Here is what it looks like- Just email me at wendysbookcase@gmail.com or pm on facebook, I would be happy to send you one.
I have been working on my novel, and Christmas Book it another James and Syvok Adventure! Always happy when writing.
I have another admin who is fabulous her name Candice. I love working with her. The Lil Anchor’s street team is going they are a fab group too and so helpful. Amy my quiet admin is helping me build a website, she helps me with my tech issues, for which I have a lot of them. Check out my pages at the end of this post. Lil Anchors page now has featured kids authors from Anchor Group Publishing. I know cute we call ourselves lil anchors. We also post a joke of the day. They are hilarious. On my kidstale page we now post coloring pages and lots of kids author post about their books too. My author page is WendysBookcase. All links at the bottom of this post.
Really folks their are way more nice people out there than mean people!
As always enjoy your adventures! WB
Well I am on many sites now where you can keep up with my comings and goings and
I was looking at music and came across Steppenwolfs’s song Born to be wild. Listen to it. We are Born to be wild.
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Lookin’ for adventure And whatever comes our way”
Like a true nature’s child We were born, born to be wild We can climb so high I never wanna die
Born to be wild Born to be wild
I was recently adopted for Adopt a Author Event on FB. Brittany The-BookNerd Carrigan, She has set up a 3 month event on Facebook. She is a blast to work with and helps us authors. Here is the event page if you would like to join. Wendy and Rachel’s Promotion- Palooza
I have an event February 13th for our local Festival of the Arts at the Library. It is an interesting event, for an entire month we get to explore different types of art.
I am a guest speaker to discuss children’s literature. As I was writing my presentation I realized children need to be wild. They were born for adventure.
When I wrote my first book James Saves the Moon. We were in the middle of a wonderful fun adventure. We were living in Iceland. My son was 7 learning in Icelandic. I was keeping him up on his English. He is a gifted child especially when it came to being a gifted speaker and adventure. He was a early talker and storyteller. He was speaking in full sentences by the time he was two. Today at 15 he is still gifted in speech. His command of language is unbelievable to me. While I was continuing his education at home to read in English. We discovered many books were boring no adventure. We did discover Tintin. My son loved those books. All about adventure and he could read them both in English and Icelandic. On my last trip to Holland, I picked up a couple that were in Dutch. Now he is exploring music. My twin daughters are more the hands on explorers. They want activity, risk takers. I find them on roofs, up trees, swing set poles. They have little fear of the unknown. They were climbing mountains, cliffs, soccer nets at two. I could not have blinds or drapes in their windows when they were toddlers. I could not have open windows either.
I think this why a little place in my brain was unlocked with adventures, when my son one day said . “Look Mom the moon is on the mountain. I am going to touch it tonight. We all ran to the window in his bedroom to look.
“Let me tell you it was on the mountain, huge and it seemed we could feel the moon beams shooting through us. I had a dream that night. The next day I wrote the first draft. Since then I have had many dreams and written many things. The hard part is focusing long enough to finish a story. I love having this part of the brain free to explore , dream, share the adventures that were locked up for so many years.
The most important thing for a child is being able to go on an adventure. Children’s books should have an adventure no matter what. They want to explore touch, feel, take apart, figure things out as if always on a adventure. I think the most gifted educators are the ones to take a child on an adventure every day in class no matter what the subject is. Let’s, allow children be born to be wild it is there gift to us and our future. Exploration and Adventure is a good thing.
My children’s books are all about adventure my reviews and private messages have brought me pure joy when mothers tell me, my goodness my kids could not put it down. My son wants to ride the dragon. My child with ADHD or Autism was captivated with your story. Kids need to let their imaginations fly. The illustrations have a dragon on every picture. I am lucky I have worked with two wonderful illustrators. Jim Weidman and Kelly Murray. I came to Anchor Group Publishing with my own illustrators and my poor grammar skills. They embraced my adventures. Working with Anchor Group and the authors of Anchor Group has been a wonderful adventure. All the authors are so talented and take you on adventures. The lil anchors (kids authors) have fun adventures. We help each other, encourage each other to be our best. Adventure and Exploring is in my opinion the trail to happiness.
ENJOY YOUR ADVENTURE, WB
James Saves the Moon is available on Amazon and B&N in E-Book or Print
Today Anchor Group Publishing gave me permission to reveal my cover for the Second book in my Series “Helga Returns”. James, Syvok and Matthias are off on another adventure. This time they will encounter trolls and twomore dragons will be introduced. Helga Returns will be released within the next few weeks.
If you have not read James Saves the Moon book one in this series, you may want to pick it up now and your children will love the adventure James embarks on traveling up the mountain to touch the moon. Links listed below for James Saves the Moon
This is an exciting day for for sure. My book James Saves the Moon is being read on J.D Holiday’s live on Saturday Jan, 5 at 10 eastern. This is blog radio way cool adventure.
13 is my lucky number woo hoo come on 2013. I am ready (Ramble Alert)
I have been doing a lot of investigating, learning, waiting and reflecting the last couple of months. It has been a good year for the most part. I am on the cusp of a new adventure. I just have to choose the path or will I let the path choose me.This is what seems to happen to me most of the time. It seems every time I know the direction I want to take or the place I wish to live. Something or someone changes the path. They have always been interesting twists in the road but I always wonder when will it be my turn to choose the direction. Maybe 2013 will be the year I drive the future for a while then again maybe not. What ever happens it will be an interesting adventure.
I have now been down this writing path for about 7 years. I never ever thought I would be a writer. I was looking for a career that I could do anywhere since we have moved so many times. Frankly no one really wants to hire a woman over 40. This was made quite clear in the last 5 years. Shocking but very clear. So as I always do I adjust, adapt and wow have I been having fun learning the publishing business.
My latest interview by a wonderful author Karen Pokras Toz. Check out her tween age books they all rock.
She asked Can you see yourself in any of your characters? No one ever asked me that question. It has had me thinking ever since.
I was thinking and thinking, then it hit me my characters are like imaginary friends. I am retelling their adventures. I have lots of vivid dreams always have. My Mother use to tell me she could hear me talking in my sleep all the time. My dreams feel real and I wake up often tired from my busy adventure dreams. Sometimes important people that have passed away come and chat for a while or need to be told it is ok to open the door to the next place you will be ok. That was the last conversation I had with my father. He passed away my guess during that dream. I even had a dream about my best friend growing up my cat Spitzy. She told me to name the new cat that adopted us in Idaho Rigsby. The next day my Mom called and said your cat died. Well anyway my very first imaginary friend was Susie. We did everything together. She was the best. I do not know where she went. She left when my brother was brought home from the hospital. I like to think she is always near.
Now after reflecting I do not think I answered Karen’s question very well. I think all my characters have a little of me in them and a lot of the people I allow in my inner circle or are part of my inner circle like family. Their have been many interesting people I have met through the years which work into my characters. I did say Blaze the dragon and Carolyn seem to have some of me in them. But really I think they have become my new imaginary friends. When I write about them in my novel called the New Moon Brethren. I really feel like I am there with them in their inner tight circle. Same with all my writing. I am there with my characters whether like Watson describing the adventure as an observer or really with them as they make their discoveries. It is quite fun. Like my dreams I am usually very tired after a writing adventure. James in my children’s series he has many of the characteristics of my son. Matt the dragon has many of the characteristics of my dear friend Tina’s son who is the same age as my son. Syvok is like my friend Kristin in Iceland. She was the first local in Iceland who talked to me.Like Blaze and Carolyn in my novel they are a mixture of many of my friends who are now at a time in their lives they have responsibilities and often like most woman their needs or wants get put on the back burner to handle situations. It called life and its what we do. That is how I pick characters. I figure out what kind of personality I am looking then look at the people I have met. I am lucky I have met many people from all over. I will have a life time of characters to write about.
So when your child has an imaginary friend do not be concerned it is a good thing. They may become the next bestselling author. I sure love all my real and imaginary friends. I would not trade them for anything in the world.
Happy New Year to all, May it bring good things to us all and more grand adventures.WB
P.S . All Anchor Group Publishing e-books are 99 cents until January 1. This includes mine. James Saves the Moon, and my short story in Paranormal Gone Awry.
Paranormal Gone Awry has thirteen stories by thirteen different authors. My story introduces Blaze and Carolyn my besties. My story is on page 100
I am the author of a fabulous elementary level kids book called James Saves the Moon. I have to let you in on a little secret. Many of may not know but dragonslove Christmas are always ready to help. Icelandic dragons are one of their protectors.
In my book Matthias helps James and Syvok(an icelandic fairy) reach the moon on the mountain. In my previous post on this blog you can read about three special Icelandic dragons, who take James and Syvok on a wonderful fun magical sleigh ride and must help Santa and a baby polar bear. I want to thank the Derinda and Jodie at Young Adult and Teen Readers for setting up Christmas for Authors and everyone participating at the event. http://www.facebook.com/YaTeenReaders Please like their page if you have not done so already.
Well this is quite the thriller and more. Jen is excited about her summer abroad on a cruise ship and traveling to new places and meeting new people. Boy did she meet some new characters for sure! Then the unexpected happens and she is thrust into a new world of magic and magical beings. Her life has changed for ever. Will she live her life as it has been or will she embrace the world of magical beings living amongst us mere mortals. Or will she have no choice? More than Magic indeed! I loved this story. You will have to read to find out what happens to this gal The visuals were spectacular. Quite the cruise. Full of wit, new friends,enemies, adventure, live changing, excitement and magic. I wish my cruise was this much fun. I find them boring and mostly filled with boring people. I highly recommend this read. Look forward to second one in the series.
A little about the Author Elizabeth Kirke ~
Elizabeth Kirke wanted to be an author before she even knew what an author was. She used to say that she wanted to be an artist, but that was only because she was too young to write and had to tell stories with pictures instead. She hasn’t stopped writing since she learned how. It wasn’t long before she dreamed of becoming an author and couldn’t be happier now that that dream is a reality.
If she isn’t writing…well, let’s be honest; if she isn’t writing she’s probably on Facebook thinking that she should start writing. But, if she isn’t writing or on Facebook, she’s probably doing something involving books, baking, gardening, or yarn. In an ideal world, she’d be reading and knitting while something from the garden is in the oven. Then again, in an ideal world, she’d have a flock of ducks and a couple of goats.
Like most slightly-nosy, avid readers, Elizabeth can’t resist trying to catch a peek at books she sees people reading when out in public to see if she can figure out what it is. While doing just that one day, she realized that it would probably be the coolest-thing-ever if she caught a complete stranger reading one of her books. That’s her new dream.
Let me introduce my book James Saves the Moon. It is available in ebook now. Soon print. Just click on the link to amazon next to the cover on this post. I am so excited can you feel it. I really love this writing adventure.
We will have a giveaway every day until the event on Tuesday. There is a grand prize basket available. If you down load my book from amazon and provide me proof of your order. You will be added for the drawing November 20th at 8:45 by random.org. Good Luck and I hope you enjoy the story. At the release event there will be ebooks, bookmarks, bracelets available to win on Tuesday. Hope to see you there for the release adventure for James Saves the Moon. Enjoy your adventures, WB
Just wanted to update you all. I loved Cecilia Spark. Can’t wait to download the Second book.The Adventures of Cecilia Spark – the Mystical Mountains of Terra (Volume 20) It is available in print right now. I think most kids will love this book. Reading level 2nd grade through 6th grade.
A little about the Author Nagaire Elder:
I was born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland. I spent most of my childhood playing outside with my brother and my imaginary friends and feasting on my granny’s homecooking. I remember the magpie that followed me round my garden one summer and the day my grandpa found the wild bunnies which I had captured and hidden in my bedroom. After leaving school I went to college and university (part-time) and embarked on a career in the health and safety sector, qualifying in 1993. I met my husband through my work and we have 4 children. Now I spend my time looking after my family, taking care of our collection of animals (3 dogs, 1 cat, 2 horses, 2 pigs, 3 ferrets and 1 budgie), nurturing our kitchen garden, learning Spanish, speaking Spanish, reading and writing.
This is my first children’s book and the first in the new series – The Adventures of Cecilia Spark. I am currently working on Cecilia Spark’s 2nd adventure, which is called The Adventures of Cecilia Spark – THE MYSTICAL MOUNTAINS OF TERRA (updated 17 May 2012). I published book 2 in my series in October 2012 – the Mystical Mountains of Terra is now available as a paperback (updated 01 Nov 2012). Join Cecilia Spark on her 1st BIG adventure.
Good Day Folks,
I am way behind on my reading adventures. I was hoping to finish this book this week but other things interrupted me this week. I am about half way through The Adventures of Cecilia Spark: The Brimstone Forrest. Right now I am totally in enthralled with this adventure story. I think every kid would enjoy this book. I like Cecilia Spark would love to have her as my friend. More later when I finish the story. You can enjoy the book it is available on amazon.com
Wendy Nystrom 