Rejection is an inevitable part of everyone’s publishing journey at every stage. And with rejections come “dead manuscripts”. Well, I’ve just decided to start giving my dead manuscripts some life (and some love) by painting pictures for them. I started [Read More]
Saliman and the Memory Stone is perfectly complimented by a memory stone project. For older students/ children my questions for readers (and listeners) can help guide a discussion about the themes this craft explores. As with all of my [Read More]
Lately, I’ve been preoccupied with trying to market my books and I find myself wishing that I had more than just a shoestring budget. I have 2 new books (PB #2 and #3 for me) out in little over [Read More]
My mother saved two books from her childhood: The Passover Story and The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. My copy of The Rubaiyat is in NY so I can’t revisit that now, but my love of kidlit (and my love of my mother, [Read More]
I have a new book deal!
From Publishers Marketplace:
Erica Lyons’s ZHEN YU AND THE SNAKE, pitched as a retelling of the famous story of Rabbi Akiva’s daughter and the snake from the Talmud, set in Kaifeng, China in the 12th century, [Read More]
You have a publishing contract. Now what? Can someone please write this guide?
I’m one year in since the sale of my first manuscript (Alone Together on Dan Street, Apples & Honey Press) and I have no idea what is going [Read More]
Once upon a time, I imagined that one day there would be a table at a favorite coffeeshop where I would sip Americanos and nibble on scones and write. I would then be able to point to this table and [Read More]
