Priscilla’s World
A Conference for Authors and Agents
After weeks of sending letters and emails to agents (the process of finding a publisher) about Curious Cooper's Hawks, my narrative non-fiction book for middle grade readers, I took a weekend off to learn what I should have been doing. The Writers League of Texas...
Symphony in the Flint Hills weekend
Kathleen and Joel (my ex-business partners) said, "Let's go to the Symphony in the Flint Hills" so we got six tickets and B&B reservations at The Cottage House in Council Grove and planned a great weekend. Storms before, almost during and after every...
A New Story: Trees and Memories
Trees and Memories One night lightening killed a friend. All right, my friend was a tree. Lightening struck the large maple beside our driveway and I knew I was losing something special. Red-bellied woodpeckers lived in a hole in that tree which doubled my love for...
Learning about Owls
We just returned from Minnesota and time with kids, grand kids and three precious great grand kids. On Saturday evening our son, Ben, took us to a reception and program titled All About Owls at the Carpenter Nature Center south of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Walter Conrad...
Sharing my Cooper’s Hawks
What fun it was yesterday. I had the opportunity to share slides of the Cooper's Hawks from my story of their being trained in our back yard. About 25 elementary school kids listened and watched in rapt attention...and asked some good questions along the way. I had...
The end of January
Where did the month of January go? Is it fair to say, "One twelfth of 2010 is gone?" I started the year with the intent of sending as many queries for my hawk book to as many agents/publishers as I could. Having never done this before, I am surprised how much time it...