Category: Things You Should Be Reading
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Post #160: Make it a Little Ridiculous
To celebrate the release of my middle grade debut, Felix and Squeak and the Ghost Who Forgot Everything, I was honored to write another guest post for Teen Librarian Toolbox, one of the best websites around for all things children’s and young adult books. The piece explores how the original…
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Post #159: FELIX & SQUEAK COVER REVEAL!
One of my favorite things about writing and publishing books is that it creates moments of pure joy. Like this one. I am truly overjoyed to be finally sharing with you the cover for my debut middle grade novel, Felix & Squeak and the Ghost Who Forgot Everything. Isn’t it…
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Post #158: Big Writing News!
Hi! If you’re reading this, your first thought might be…he’s alive? Yes! And I’m sorry for the recent radio silence. But I do have a good excuse, which is that I’ve been working really hard on my next book, and I’m finally ready to share some big writing news that…
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Post #151: Listen to a FREE Audiobook Sample
Click HERE to listen to Track 1 of Blowin’ My Mind Like a Summer Breeze for FREE! I love audiobooks. The immersive experience they provide, especially when in the company of a good narrator, creates a literary journey that’s second to none. I struggled for years to get through Moby…
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Post # 146: Book Giveaway!
Would you like to read an advance copy of my debut novel, Blowin’ My Mind Like a Summer Breeze, before it comes out on July 22nd? Of course you would! And I’m doing a giveaway just for followers of my blog to make it happen. Because I do love you…
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Post #143: Cover Reveal
Friends, I’m so glad you’re here to see this. You’re looking at the cover of my debut novel, Blowin’ My Mind Like a Summer Breeze, which comes out on paperback, e-book, and audiobook on July22nd on Deep Hearts YA. I’m revealing the cover on social media later this week, but…
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Post #140: A Book of Magical Sentences
I recently finished Joan Didion’s National Book Award winning memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, and I can’t stop thinking about it. If you’ve never read it, it’s an account of the heartbreaking death of her husband John at the same time her daughter is battling a life-threatening illness. It’s…
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Post #123: Well Said, Eudora Welty
Some lovely passages from Eudora Welty’s memoir to brighten and enlighten your day… “The events in our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarily–perhaps not possibly–chronological. The time as we know it subjectively is often…
Benjamin Roesch 