The Blogs
Welcome to our Author (& Topic) Blogs. Each delivers more resources, useful links, and related information to extend your knowledge and enjoyment of topics surrounding each Crickhollow book.
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Blue Zoo Young Writers
Blue Zoo is a fresh place for writing ideas, tips, and more, for middle school and young teen writers (ages 8–14)! Want to get published? We'll suggest places to submit your work (and help you write better)! We'll offer fun stuff to help you with all your writing projects: poetry, stories, articles for your school paper, book reviews . . . . We’ll offer info on good contests. And fun writing ideas. Blue Zoo offers a path to your writing success and enjoyment.
Creeping Past Dragons
A blog on fantasy literature, by Philip Martin, to celebrate the magic of fantasy storytelling in all its diverse forms, exploring why it delights and enchants readers of all ages. This is a companion blog to A Guide to Fantasy Literature: Thoughts on Stories of Wonder and Enchantment. Creeping Past Dragons is a blog for further discussions, ideas, insights, links to great references and resources, information on new books, and other helpful material about fantasy as a literary genre and a creative exploration of spiritual ideas.
Crickhollow Blog
News about Crickhollow Books new titles, author events, reviews, special offers or sales programs, and other useful stuff!
Grant Writing Made Simple blog
This blog (companion to the book, Grant Writing Made Simple: 87 Tips for Great Grants), offers useful tips and techniques for the new grant writer, especially for students majoring in English, community education, or social work, and for new professionals (or volunteers) working with a nonprofit organization, charity, or civic group who wish to write a winning proposal for an important project.
Plank Road Summer blog
A blog about the history of the plank-road era in the 1850s, the Underground Railroad in the Great Lakes region, and background of Plank Road Summer. This historical novel for middle-grade readers (May 2009) features two 13-year-olds, Katie McEachron and her best friend Florence Mather, who experience a new and exciting world one summer as the plank road brings strangers to their dinner tables and the plight of runaway slaves to their consciences.
Plotting for Writers
A blog for fiction writers on plotting techniques and successful structures for novels, by Linda George and friends.
Saving Sailing blog
The objective of the Saving Sailing book project is . . . to save sailing! This blog supports that mission, with many ideas and resources on family sailing, sailing clubs and coops, and more.
Sylvia Dickey Smith Books blog
More about A War of Her Own and Sylvia Dickey Smith’s other books featuring strong women, including her popular Sidra Smart, P.I., mystery series, set in the border bayous between Texas and Louisiana.