by DianneSalerni | Jun 3, 2015 | First Impressions
Our second submission for First Impressions comes from Shannon Cortazar. It’s a YA Fantasy titled SILHOUETTE. *** We were invaded the day we buried my brother. It was autumn, crisp and bright. “A good day for a burial” I heard someone say behind me. A tragic death,...
by DianneSalerni | Jun 1, 2015 | First Impressions
Welcome to First Impressions for the month of June! Our first selection is a MG Contemporary manuscript by Valerie Hobbs titled WILD GINGER: *** There were times living with her parents when Elizabeth “Lizzie” Lessing has had to be the grownup, or at least feels as if...
by DianneSalerni | May 27, 2015 | caged graves, The Eighth Day, WIP, writing
I’m writing this blog post to comfort myself more than to inform you, although I hope you might find it informative anyway … or maybe comforting. I’ve come to see this blog as the closest thing I have to a diary, and I often look back through old posts for...
by DianneSalerni | May 20, 2015 | First Impressions
I’m excited to share the news that Marcy Hatch and I have added a new team-member for our First Impressions posts! You’ve all met Marcy by now, hopefully. She’s the author of West of Paradise (WiDo Publishing, 2014), a time-traveling adventure/romance where Tombstone...
by DianneSalerni | May 18, 2015 | PSSA, reading, teaching, testing
This will be the final post in a series of Why I Had to Leave Education … for now. (Until something else sets me off.) When my nephew started third grade at my former school this past fall, my brother-in-law asked me, “What’s this ‘content class’ Joe keeps talking...
