Welcome to my website. I’m glad you’re here.

This site has been online for more than six years now. And yet it remains a work in progress. Slow progress at times, but progress nonetheless. 

So come in, look around, stay a while.

Get to know me through my bio. Hint: Books and literacy are big parts of who I am and what I do.

Read excerpts from my books, and see what reviewers have said about them.

Check out my programs for students and adults. I love to visit schools, libraries, and community groups.

Don’t miss my links, which will lead you to lots of fun and informative cyberplaces.

Peruse my rants and raves. I’m a big believer in civil discourse and respectful exchange of ideas. We all have opinions. I’d love to know yours.

Contact me. Offer suggestions on how I can make this site more useful to you. Ask me questions about writing, publishing, or anything else. Let me know if you find broken links.

This is probably so obvious I don’t even need to say it, but … everything on this site is under copyright. Before you copy or distribute any part of it, ask me for permission.

Again, welcome. Show yourself around. I want this to be a place where we can meet, communicate, and share the joys of books and reading.

 

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Need some quick writing advice? E-mail me your questions, and I’ll try to answer them in future Writing Tips on this page. Any topic is fair game, from getting ideas to time management to using punctuation correctly. 

 

Find previous tips in my Writing Tip Archive.

 

 

Or check out my advice to aspiring writers.

Writing Tip for January: Don’t let your participial phrases dangle; attach them to whatever they modify.

· Wrong: Racing along the highway, the farmhouses looked like a blur. (Really? The farmhouses were racing along?)

· Right: Racing along the highway, we thought the farmhouses looked like a blur. (We were racing, we thought….)

· Wrong: Arriving late again, my seat was the only empty one in the class. (My seat arrived late? Um, no.)

· Right: Arriving late again, I saw that my seat was the only empty one in the class. (I was late, I saw the seat.)

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