This week, we’re celebrating Kitty’s debut! Kitty Keswick has been an Anglophile since age four when she saw Robin Hood and fell head over heels in love. As she grew up on her grandfather’s California vineyard, Kitty’s imagination was her best friend. At a very tender age, she started writing her stories and reading them to the grapes. Kitty spends her days with werewolves, Valkyries, vamps, and other creatures that go bump in the night. Check out her website www.kittykeswick.com. Here’s a little bit about FREAKSVILLE (Leap Books). A group of teenagers, trapped in a haunted theater… Continue reading

This week, we’re celebrating Vicky’s debut! Vicky Whipple is an avid student of life’s great lessons. She grew up as Vicky Le Grand—an energetic “navy brat” who loved the outdoors. By the time she graduated from high school she’d gone to 11 schools. Along the way, she struggled with school’s demands, especially reading, due to a learning disability. Aided by wonderful teachers and a patient mother, she wrote her first story in the second grade; it was published in the school paper. Later in life, she helped children who struggled like she did, while working for the school district’s special… Continue reading

This week, we’re celebrating M. G. King’s debut! M. G. King grew up in southern Indiana on the Ohio River. She always wanted to be like the town’s librarian, who drove a rusty bookmobile through snow and chased off neighborhood bullies so children could check out her books. Although King hasn’t found anyone willing to let her drive their bookmobile yet, she’s held lots of other jobs, including camp counselor, ESL teacher in Japan, and registered nurse in ICU, transplant, and surgical recovery. King lives in a suburb of Houston with her husband, two sons, and a Labrador who sheds a… Continue reading