Behind the Book: I am NOT Taylor
When I was writing my middle grade novel, Barn Boot Blues, I decided to put my protagonist, a 12-year-old girl named Taylor, into my scariest imaginable situation: being home alone when a ewe goes into labor and needs help. (Birthing? Not my thing. The touching of bodily fluids? Not my thing.) In the novel, Taylor […]
Behind the Book: Back-of-the-book Blurb
My publisher says it’s time to write the blurb for the back of my new book, explaining that I know the book better than anyone else. IMHO, that’s exactly why I’m not the one to write it, but I’ll never win that argument (heavy sigh.) So here it is. I’ve decided that in the future […]