Monday, Kidtales on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Kidtales ) is kicking off weekly feature on author Crystal Clifton. Let me start it off with her first book Thimble Kisses
Thimble Kisses by Crystal Clifton
This book is a tender endearing story. The story centers around a young boy who wants to give his mother a kiss for Christmas. He thinks this is the perfect gift.He convinces his father that the kisses are in the sewing section at the store. He looks up at the thimbles and there are different colored and decorated ones. Each child picks out a thimble kiss for their mother. She adores the special gift of love from each child and as each one grows up and leaves the house she sends them on their way with a thimble kiss to remind them of their mother. The book is not only about special Christmas memories but expressing love for mothers with a simple gift. This is a wonderful book of family love to share with children any time of the year.
I am happy to announce the release of Tomfoolery and 13 Yule Lads of Iceland.
Who likes to have fun during the holidays? Well Iceland has fun for 26 days. The Yuletide season starts December 12th with the first of 13 Yule Lads to visit and drop off a treat for well behaved children and cause some mischief while in town. Just click on the picture and it will take you to Amazon purchase links. This is the third adventure for James and Syvok. And as always Matthias the Dragon is always there to help out on the adventure. Join the event we will have fun and prizes and a Rafflecopter with some great books and prizes from me and some of my wonderful friends.
Tomfoolery 13 Yule Lads Of Iceland and what do you get? A lot of Tomfoolery and Fun I’ll bet! The Thirteen Yule Lads of Iceland are much different than the Santa Clause we know. They are mischievous, troublesome, funny, and full of curiosity. Much like James, so when James visits them in their home with Syvok, almost gets eaten by their mother and is taunted by the Christmas Cat, they know right where they are going to come when they visit town the 13 days of Christmas. James finds out that the Yule Lads make the noisiest house guests ever when they come to stay. They clang pots, slam doors, and even bring their own lamb. However amidst all the ruckus what they create most of all is joy and fun for the holidays.
This is a book you and your kids will want to read all the time and at Christmas Time. It was my favorite story when we lived in Iceland. I add a different spin to the old legend.
If you wish to order the book signed just drop me an email at wendysbookcase@gmail.com or If you purchase it some where else online email me with proof of purchase and I will gladly send you an signed bookplate you can place inside.
I love Alicia Michaels books. She is a talented writer. Sign up for her rafflecopter click on link below. Enjoy getting to know one of my favorite authors Alicia Michaels.
Ever since she first read books like Chronicles of Narnia or Goosebumps, Alicia has been a lover of mind-bending fiction. Wherever imagination takes her, she is more than happy to call that place her home. The mother of two and wife to an Army sergeant loves chocolate, coffee, and of course good books. When not writing, you can usually find her with her nose in a book, shopping for shoes and fabulous jewelry, or spending time with her loving family.
An epic Fantasy spin on the fairy tales as told by the Brothers Grimm
Child of the Sacred Earth is book 2 in the series
Title: Child of the Sacred Earth
Categories: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fairytales, Mythology, Paranormal, Romance
Length: 75,000 words
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Publisher: Anchor Group Publishing
Blurb: Get a degree, get a job, save adorable foster siblings from the clutches of the evil foster mom …
These are Jocylene Sanders’ top priorities as she enters her sophomore year of college. The last thing she expects is to find herself the champion of an entire kingdom. However, that is just what happens when the mysterious Faerie, Rothatin Longspear, appears to her, tasking her with saving a parallel world full of creatures from her wildest dreams.
Jocylene journeys with him into the world of Fallada, hoping for answers about her birth parents and background. What she finds is a mystifying past, and an even more uncertain future, as her heart becomes entangled with the stoic, battle-hardened Rothatin, as well as Eli, the untroubled Panther Shifter with no loyalties and no home. With her heart and soul pulled in so many directions, can Jocylene find the strength needed to become the savior one nation so desperately needs?
My other news is my third book released in print for Christmas in July. The reason for print first is I am having a release signing event in my local
small city here in Michigan. It will be out soon in eBook as well. Amazon has quite the sale going on in print below $7.
Just click Tomfoolery’s cover to check it out on Amazon. Already have two nice reviews. It is a wild adventure for James and his pals during the 26 days of Christmas Holiday in Iceland.This is my favorite story.
If you are looking for a little Christmas in July grab it now.
Tomfoolery and 13 Yule Lads of Iceland
Why Christmas in July. Well my dear friend Chris, a couple of years ago told me at lunch one day. One side of her family celebrates Christmas in July. I of course asked why and said really! Do any of you celebrate Christmas during the summer months except for the southern hemisphere?
Well it is the only time the family can all get together. They meet I believe at their family lake home. They go all out. Decorate, dress, exchange gifts and eat and have fun. I said to her I am going to release my third book in July and have Christmas in July. Fun huh! I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer adventure. Enjoy the Adventure WB
First of all, let me thank, Janet Mclaughlin, author of the awesome books “Get Psyched” and her newest “Psyched out” for inviting me along on this book tour. Here you’ll have a chance to follow along and meet authors of all genres. I would like to thank Jodi Stone author of two books “Savannah’s Story and A Easter Bonnet for Lily” her blog is http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/3884835-quirks-and-quills-next-big-thing-blog-tour
This will be a Q&A where you will get to know a little more about me. I hope you enjoy the writing adventure I am enjoying. I hope you enjoy, and make sure to follow the next author on the tour, Christy Sloat. Her links you’ll find below after my Q&A.
Q&A with Wendy Nystrom, currently children books author
1. What is the working title of your next book? Helga Returns, It released in February 2013 from Anchor Group Publishing.Book 2 James and Syvok Adventures.
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2. Where did the idea come for the book? The book came from my son spotting a foot print on the shore, while living in Iceland. We were looking at an Iceberg that floated down our local fjord near Akrueyri, Iceland.
3. Genre? This is an adventure children’s book ages 7 and up.
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4. What, if any actors would you star to play in a movie version of this book? I really have no idea since I see my children and friends in the characters.
5. What is a one sentence synopsis of the book? Your child will feel the thrill of this magical adventure that starts with a foot print, that takes flight on dragons a back up a mountain, discover Yamas a village deep inside a mountain and more adventures.
6. Who is the publisher of the book? This book is published through Anchor Group Publishing. They are a traditional publisher made up of an amazing group of authors.http://anchorgrouppublishing.com/
7. Would you compare your books to others out there, and if so what books are yours most like? To me it is part of me . Some have told me it is unique, lord of ringish and like neverending story. Makes me blush with those kinds of remarks.
8. Who inspired this book? My son James, family, friends, moving around a lot and Iceland.
9. What else would the reader maybe like to know, or what might pique their interest? I was totally surprised that Autistic and ADHD Children enjoy my books and read them in one sitting. I was so pleased to hear this from a few mom’s. I just want all kids to go on adventures, have fun and explore.
The previous post has a rafflecopter to win a swag pack from me. check it out.
Thanks, Hope you enjoy the adventure and my books, WB
Thanks Jodi Stone for inviting me to this blog tour and Janet Mclaughlin . You can find her links below as well. And now, I will introduce and hand off to Christy Sloat, another talented Anchor Group Author. She first book in her visitor series is called “Brown House” and she has another interesting exciting past lives series starting with “The Many Lives of Avery Snow”. You must check out.
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
It is my pleasure to review Murder on Mars by M. M. Shelley. All I can say is what a spectacular reading adventure. I love mysteries and this book is jam packed with mysteries. This is a murder mystery with a twist because it takes you on and adventure on the real streets of New Orleans and the Shadow Streets of New Orleans. What more can I say well plenty. Ava a young gal receives a message her best friend Dyson is missing. Then a body amongst other bodies are found. Is Dyson one of the them or not. Ava must unravel the mystery to Dyson’s disappearance. Then add paranormal twist to it with the shadow world. Ava discovers much about herself and that she can see the shadows. She can travel the streets in both worlds. As she unravels the mysteries and players she also is discovering aspects of herself and her history. She is young and discovers she is one tough gal. The author does good job with the transitions. It is a page turner for sure. I just loved it. I look forward to reading other books by M.M. Shelley and the next one that may give us more details about Ava’s background and secrets she is unraveling about herself. I want to know more. Keep up the good work M.M. Shelley.
Murder On Mars
(A New Orleans Mystery)
Synopsis: A paranormal force has lured Ava to New Orleans, where shadows lurk behind every corner and an unknown power has yet to be unleashed. There is a darkness in New Orleans, one that has brought sixteen year old Ava Lopez to the city in search of her best friend, Dyson. A dark crime has been committed, and there are supernatural forces involved. Three sisters who whisper “fate” are awaiting the arrival of the Guardian. Shadow People fiercely haunt the city, unchallenged, but Ava senses that Dyson may be involved with their crimes. She must discover the secret that the Shadows are so determined to keep hidden. Ava will have to risk everything, because where the Fates are concerned there are no second chances.
About M.M. Shelley: M.M. Shelley is a storyteller, word smith and dreamer. She has traveled the world extensively in search of the magic which is often overlooked in every day life. M.M. Shelley is a native of southern California, and a student of mythology from which she gets much inspiration.
I have been having a grand adventure with Anchor Group Publishing. Just finished final edits for James Saves the Moon face lift, with Melissa the editor who is great to work with. If you are looking for an editor check out There For You Book Editing and Reviews her other business besides Anchor Groups Jack of all trades. https://www.facebook.com/thereforyou.editing
Next step formatting and adding the illustrations to the manuscript. I am told it may release sometime in 2012. I am very excited it was first scheduled for sometime in January 2013.
Very aggressive group at Anchor with Captain Stacey Rourke at the helm and a talented writer herself. It is turning out to be smooth sailing with this group.
Since Joining Anchor Group I have downloaded every book they have published and started reading them.
I have read
Golden by Monika Pardon. I loved this book. Begins with a young gal at her Grandmother’s funeral. Everyone is against her for some reason, she cannot trust anyone. Then an encounter with three bears. Yes three bears. She has been changed into something and finds out how important she is to the world or worlds. A lot for this young lady to take on. Not to give away anymore of the story. I recommend this good read. It was fun and a clever way to find out what happens after an encounter with three bears. The rest of the story so to speak. Down load today you will enjoy the adventure.
Suspenseful, well written and a truly updated ghost story that fits modern times.
In her second novel, Ms. Sloat, once again delvers an excellent read. Her main characters are well developed and plot line is excellent. The story was well revealed and the side characters were well written. They drew out her characters and plot, without overshadowing the main point.
Ms. Sloat’s themes were eloquently woven together and she finished them off in an elegant bow. I look forward t more from Ms. Sloat and highly recommend this to anyone who is looking for a great ghost story to read over the summer.
Thimble Kisses by Crystal Clifton
Jefferson the Colorful Caterpillar, By Crystal Clifton looks to be another delightful read for young readers and parents.http://crystalsthimblekisses.blogspot.com/ 
Wendy Nystrom 