by DianneSalerni | Jun 30, 2014 | caged graves, cover, Sara Crowe, The Eighth Day, The Inquisitor's Mark
Yes, my daughter Gabrielle now has a driver’s license. How did that happen? Wasn’t it only last year that she was THIS big? The driver’s license thing happened during my last full week of teaching, so on top of the stress of ending both the...
by DianneSalerni | Jun 26, 2014 | cover, The Inquisitor's Mark
I’ve been chomping at the bit to share this cover, ever since I saw it back in March … Oh! You didn’t think I was sharing it here? Did I give that impression? My bad. 😀 That’s just a teaser. Please click HERE to see...
by DianneSalerni | Jun 23, 2014 | teaching
Thanks, Robin at Your Daily Dose, for suggesting this format when my mind is too scattered to write cohesively … Here are my final days of teaching in bullet points: When I mentioned in an email to my blogging pal Lenny Lee that I was facing three...
by DianneSalerni | Jun 18, 2014 | teaching, The Eighth Day
It’s June 18th, and I have one week left of being a teacher. Today would have been the end of this school year if it hadn’t been for all the snow. It’s hard to believe we were actually scheduled to go this late into June – one of those awful school board...
by DianneSalerni | Jun 16, 2014 | The Eighth Day
Writing YA is awesome. Hearing from teen readers who loved We Hear the Dead and The Caged Graves has been a high point of my publishing experience. But here are 3 reasons why I’m loving Middle Grade: 1. BOOK LOGS 2. SNAIL MAIL 3. FAN FICTION This...