Scribblings from a twenty-year homeschool veteran about homeschooling, life after homeschooling, occasional peeks into the world of writing for children, and the ups and downs of life in general.
My new writing workbook, Reach for the Stars, is finally available. In addition to having the book published, the publisher started a Reach for the Stars Writing Club for anyone--even if you don't have the book. ANYBODY can sign up! We're putting out a monthly (well, l hope monthly) E-zine with story starters, a Parent's Corner, Grammar Gremlins, Photo Fun, and more (even contests eventually). We'll also share readers' stories in the E-zine.
To sign up for the FREE Writing Club and to download the June 2009 launch E-zine, go here:
Go over to The Christian Pulse and learn how to win a free, autographed copy of Andrea Carter and the San Francisco Smugglers (I'll even thow in a small China doll)!
I've kept up with my Bible reading, although I had to make up some time AGAIN! Things are just hopping around here. I'm trying to get ready for the WHO convention June 19-20. I have a swell booth location. I'll do a Show and Tell on it when I get back.
I'm reading Chronicles, and let me tell you, those first 10 chapters or so are really, really boring. Names, names, and names . . . a roll call of every Israelite who ever lived, seems to me!
Today I want to share a link with you of one of my first article-writing attempts. It's for the Christian Writing Examiner, and talks about the trends in the "tween" (aka middle-grade, ages 8-10) market. The good and the bad.
If you're interested, hop over here and leave a comment for the Christian Writing Examiner!
It's Show and Tell with Mary on this lovely first day of May! Click the graphic.
I'm back in the "saddle" (but who knows for how long?). I'm a "widow-woman" for a while, while DH is building the pole barn over on the homestead. He's been gone the month of April and into . . . ?
But I've not been slacking. Media Angels, a publisher of great Creation studies and other materials for homeschooling families, is publishing my Reach for the Stars writing workbook for young authors. It comes out this month! In addition to just slapping a book out there, Felice, a homeschool mom and the publisher, plans all kinds of fun writing things. If you think your kids would enjoy being part of a writing club, sign up right here:
Or you can go to my website SUSANKMARLOW.COM to read about the book and download sample pages. You can sign up for the writing club there, as well! Tell your friends! And if you want to buy the 144-page writing book, it's on a "pre-order" special for $14.95, instead of the retail $18.95. (This feels weird, pitching this). Go here if interested: www.mediaangels.com/reachforthestars/
Here are the front and back covers:
And that's my show and tell! Spread the word!
How are you all doing? I've kept up, amazingly enough! I and 2 Samuel are easy to read, if a little gruesome. I can't get over how many things are "R" rated in the Old Testament. How about when Joab is chasing some enemy of the king's, and the guy hides out in a city. Joab's going to kill everybody and burn the city until a woman pleads with him and asks what they can do to turn him aside. "Give up the guy who fled to your city," he replied. No problem. They chop off his head and the woman tosses it over the city wall! Talk about an "R" rating for "disturbing scenes." It's fresh on my mind because I decided to watch Slum Dog Millionaire. It was disturbing, but no more disturbing than watching the Taliban whip teenage girls on the Nightly News! The world is a disturbing place. The movie spurred me to pray for the millions of human beings living in places we wouldn't ever want to see.
