June Author Update
Oakwoods is well underway for a 2025 release of all five brand new early reader chapter books. Featuring Boon, a wise turkey vulture in every book, each title will have another under-appreciated woodland animal’s exploits and growth. If you have ANY input on these topics, please let me know.
Pip O’Possum ( A story about work then play. It is like the story of the ant and the grasshopper, with a slice of Pinocchio.) This story has been written and will be professionally edited, then proofread this month. The illustrations and the cover should be finished by July as well.
Sally Skunkskin (A story about grumbling vs. contentment and thankfulness.) I’m writing this story now.
Benjamin Bat (A story about respect)
Nuts! (A story about generosity and forgiveness) It features 3 gray squirrels: Hazel, Hickory, and Henry.
Chester Crow (A story about dependability and self-control)
Finding Strength: During the Panic of 1893 is an audiobook! Ceci Garcia finished the final work and we’re just waiting on the distribution to about thirty different channels. Here’s the Amazon (Audible) link. Listen to the sample! Available on Spotify also.
Summer-School Author Visit
I’m excited to speak to a summer-school group of children at Hopewell Elementary this week. Love interacting with them! School visits are AMAZING. To learn more and/or schedule one for your school or homeschool group, click HERE.
June Chickadee Cheer Giveaway Winner
Congratulations to the Lucas family. I’ll email you with the offer of a complimentary copy of the book of your choice from my shop.
Middle Grade eBooks for only $.99 or FREE
Organized by Marsha Tufft, pick up these deals for your middle-graders (or yourself)! Click on the image, which will take you to a page to click on each title.
Story Origin Suggested Reads
An Adventure Tale of Survival and Sisterhood
For seventeen-year-old outsider Louisa Sophia, the Legion of Honor school at Saint-Denis, the exclusive girls’ boarding school founded by Napoleon, has been a safe harbor surrounded by a gilded cage. Despite the bullies and the rulebook enforced by the school’s staff of teachers and nuns, Louisa found solace the last five years in three things: her climbing, her friends, and consuming an education equal to that received by the most powerful men in Europe.
With only a year until graduation and her freedom, Louisa and the school’s other social outcasts must participate in a tradition that she despises: The Last Chance Tour, a trip designed to help students without social prospects in Paris to meet potential suitors. Despite the antiquated purpose of the tour, Louisa decides to face the coming indignities when the meanest girl in school joins the traveling group to bully Louisa’s friends.
As the journey unfolds, Louisa will go from standing up to bullies to confronting the greatest threat she's ever known. If Louisa is to survive, she'll need to rely on her unique skills and the support of her Legion of Sisters.
Softening hearts in hard times - historical romance with God's supernatural touch.
When a storm hits her village, Merla Meadows takes in a handsome stranger and his mother, who happens to be the infamous Christian mystic, Margery Kempe.
BRESCIA, ITALY - 1413 I
n an isolated village concealed among the rugged cliffs and dense vegetation of Lake Iseo, Merla Meadows cares for the elderly in a community that considers them a burden.
James Kempe harbors no fantasies about marriage. Having always seen his deeply religious mother shy away from his father’s touch, he knows such unions are simply business transactions.
During a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, James and his mother stumble into a community with strange beliefs, where he finds himself resisting the unrefined charm of the beautiful, red-haired caretaker.
When Merla's home is threatened by the town’s spiritual leaders, James is torn between the mission his father gave him and a young woman determined to safeguard the vulnerable at any cost.
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