Posted in Getting Published on May 30th, 2010 No Comments »
There’s much less rearing information available on cecropia moths than luna moths, since lunas are much easier to raise and more readily available. So yet again, the little buggies caught me by surprise. This morning, only 15 days after taking the cecropia cocoons out of the fridge, the first of six cocoons hatched (aka eclosed)! [...]
Posted in Getting Published on Feb 5th, 2010 No Comments »
“The Author shall from time to time give to her readers information on the State of the Books.”
Friends are always asking me the status of my books and when the next sequel is due out, so I thought I’d recap where things stand. My first book, Through the Eyes of a Raptor (Raptor for short) [...]
Posted in Book Promotion, Getting Published, Reading and Literacy on Aug 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Once again the summer has rushed by at high speed! And as I’ve said before, when things get busy blogs get neglected. Those silly luna moths certainly required a lot of care, but it was because I had so darned many. What was I thinking when I ordered 120 eggs? About three weeks after they [...]
Posted in Getting Published on May 28th, 2009 No Comments »
There are some nifty things you can do when hatching lunas. The females don’t fly before they mate. They stay in place and extend a small green “wick” from the tail end of their abdomen. This pumps pheromones into the air. The pheromones are very strong and the wind can carry the “scent” for miles. [...]
Posted in Book Promotion, Getting Produced, Getting Published on May 15th, 2009 No Comments »
The Indie Next List pre-announcement came out today: http://news.bookweb.org/features/6782.html
It’s hard to believe ten days have gone by since Indie Bound told my publisher The Grey Ghost was #3 on the list! Since we landed in the top ten, we were invited to submit a video “book trailer” to link to the Indie Bound Web site. [...]
Posted in Book Promotion, Getting Published on May 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Blogs work opposite the way they should. When there’s nothing going on, there shouldn’t be much news. Yet, that’s when I have the time to think about posts and write well thought out observations. When events get exciting and great news is bursting out, there’s no time to read each day’s e-mail, let alone think [...]
Posted in Getting Published, Reading and Literacy on Mar 13th, 2009 No Comments »
A lot of thought went into how The Grey Ghost would make use of illustration. I wanted to bend the rules of traditional illustration and not simply repeat with a picture something the text had already stated. I wanted the pictures to actually tell the story at times. I also wanted them to be more representational and [...]
Posted in Book Promotion, Getting Published on Mar 5th, 2009 No Comments »
I have to apologize (for the lags between posts) to my regular blog followers—and the Web stats prove you’re there, albeit the strong silent types! I’ll always wait until my “schemes-du-jour” pan out before I post about them. I’m throwing a lot of ideas up against the wall, and the walls often seem to be Teflon. [...]
Posted in Book Promotion, Getting Published, Reading and Literacy on Feb 20th, 2009 No Comments »
So many great promotional ideas have excited me over the last two years, but so many don’t survive the birthing process for any number of reasons, that I’ve been reluctant to post on current efforts until something has, or actually is occurring. I’ve been quiet for the last month, working heads-down on a new project that’s had me fired [...]
Posted in Getting Published on Nov 14th, 2008 No Comments »
The Grey Ghost is currently in design. This is the last step before the Advanced Reading Copies (ARC’s) are printed and sent out for reviews. Marcia finished nearly all of the illustrations. There’s one we need to consult on, and then she’ll create castle floor plans for an appendix and the maps we’ll use as [...]