Batten Disease: The Second Book

  Back in February I began seriously considering what my second book should look like.  At that time I was about three fourths of the way through a middle grade, humorous adventure story that never quite felt right.  When a fellow author pointed out the advantages of...

Learning from OUT OF THE DUST by Karen Hesse

Whether you write fiction or non-fiction, and whether you want to call it research or priming the pump, every author has a list of books that are “must reads” before beginning the first draft of a new work. For me, Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust was at the top of the...