by DianneSalerni | Feb 1, 2016 | caged graves, pantster, The Eighth Day, The Inquisitor's Mark, The Morrigan's Curse, We Hear the Dead, WIP, writing, writing a series, writing process
Saturday was a glorious day for a book launch party at the Hockessin Book Shelf in Hockessin, Delaware! I was thrilled to see so many friends, former teaching colleagues, fellow writers, and young readers come to celebrate the release of The Morrigan’s Curse. I...
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 | Feb 25, 2015 | caged graves, Catawissa, graves, home, revision, WIP
To everyone who weighed in on my “Ending” dilemma last week, thank you! I decided my character had to be herself (and she is certainly not perfect). I think she discovered her own worth over the course of the story, but she also made a crucial mistake that prevented...
by DianneSalerni | Oct 27, 2014 | Blog Fest, caged graves, Dorians Parlor, graves, King Arthur, steampunk, The Eighth Day
Welcome! You are following the Cemetery Path, and if you’ve never visited me before, feel free to look around. I’m the author of two YA historical novels, We Hear the Dead and The Caged Graves, and a MG fantasy series about a boy who discovers a secret day of...
by DianneSalerni | Jul 14, 2014 | caged graves, Catawissa
As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, I was recently contacted by a gentleman named Charles Rodenbough from North Carolina who told me he was the great-grandson of Ransloe Boone. That would be the same Ransloe Boone whose name is on the headstone outside one of...
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...
