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Dreamwalks November 2015

#NaNoWriMo Fiction Magic card #3

Welcome to NaNoWriMo Fiction Magic month here on Dreamwalks! Are you experiencing idea flow or wordcount woe? Wherever you are with our WIP, I bet you can use some magic this month. And so, Voila!! Meet Fiction Magic: Card Tricks & Tips For Writers Today author/writer/creativity coach, Deb Lund draws card # 3 from her deck… Read more

#NaNoWriMo Fiction Magic Drawing Card # 2!

Welcome to NaNoWriMo Fiction Magic month here on Dreamwalks! Are you experiencing idea flow or wordcount woe? Wherever you are with our WIP, I bet you can use some magic this month. And so, Voila!! Meet Fiction Magic: Card Tricks & Tips For Writers Here’s the next NaNoNuj card. Deb will show us how to work… Read more

NaNoWriMo Fiction Magic Cards drawing #1

Welcome to NaNoWriMo Fiction Magic month here on Dreamwalks! Are you experiencing idea flow or wordcount woe? Wherever you are with our WIP, I bet you can use some magic this month. And so, Voila!! Meet Fiction Magic: Card Tricks & Tips For Writers Buy deck here Have you hit the wall? Out of ideas?… Read more

YA SCAVENGER HUNT!

Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author,… Read more

Finding Your Sense of Place

Dreamwalks Book Review Finding Your Sense of Place (The Writing Life Series) by Janni Lee Simner Description from Amazon: Use setting and description to bring your characters to life and increase the emotional impact of your stories! Setting is about much more than providing a few scene-setting details and moving on. Discover why the descriptions… Read more

Dragon Moon Excerpt

IN THE TIME OF DRAGON MOON Excerpt (pgs 64-67) Jackrun’s eyes fell on my double-belted waist. I’d put on Father’s belt–missing Mother, missing Father, feeling alone on this strange new island full of English—and forgotten to take it off. “If you have been given this power,” I said, “why hide it?” Jackrun began pacing the… Read more

TEACHER-LIBRARIAN ROARS!

Welcome to Library Lions interviews Raising a Roar for libraries and the outstanding librarians serving youth in schools and public libraries across the U.S. Please Roar today’s guest, Arika Dickens! Hi! I’m Arika Dickens – or Ms. Arika, as my students call me. For the last 11 years, I’ve been an elementary teacher-librarian at Medina… Read more

MOONLIGHT GLEAMS INTERVIEW

~In the Time of Dragon Moon is a story of courage and romance that readers will not soon forget.~ VOYA INTERVIEW from Moonlight Gleams -Can you tell us about your book? In the Time of Dragon Moon is a tale of love, magic and murder The story begins on Falcon Moon in the year 1210,… Read more

DRAGON EGGS FOR THE PARTY

Getting Dragon’s Egg shakers ready for party goers to shake in time with the dancing dragon at The Book Birthday party for IN THE TIME OF DRAGON MOON Saturday March 28 4 pm at Parkplace Books in Kirkland WA. Some medieval madcaps will play kazoo, too! (photos below by Heidi Pettit LitArtPhotography.net) Come one Come… Read more

DRAGON QUOTES

It’s Appreciate a Dragon Day. So let’s hear from the dragons! I pulled some dragon lines from the newest book in my Wilde Island trilogy: IN THE TIME OF DRAGON MOON due out with Kathy Dawson Books March 24/2015 ~Knife in hand, I crouched under the willow. Father’s dragon skimmed over the river, her crimson… Read more