MY YEAR IN BOOKS – 2022
It's January, so a great time to take a look back at my year in books. I 💜 BOOKS! I love to read and have always been an eclectic and voracious reader. Being an author, editor and book coach is a great excuse to embrace what I...
Mesa, AZ Fire Chief Mary Cameli Reads Rocket Shoes
Mesa, AZ Fire Chief Mary Cameli hosts a YouTube based Storytime event. In this episode, she reads Rocket Shoes, by Sharon. Rocket Shoes is available for you here on the site. ...
ROCKET SHOES Selected for 2018 Top Ten Read Aloud List!
Exciting News! My debut picture book, Rocket Shoes (Sterling Children's Books), was recently select as one of the 2018 Top Ten Read Aloud Books for Leaping Lizard list! Thank you Leaping Lizard Club of Cypress-Fairbanks ISD!!!!! ...
Writing Picture Books: Not as Easy as it Looks (PART 1)
Since the beginning of this writing journey, I have wanted to write a picture book. And, like many authors, I have more than one abandoned picture book manuscript to my name. I sometimes imagine them huddling together in a drawer somewhere, trying to keep warm. Out of sight, but not necessarily out of mind. I still love the ideas for those stories deeply, but I just could not figure out how to make them work.
While writing novels is not particularly easy, I found myself better able to figure out the structure of the longer format. I still had to study my craft, and learn to edit with an iron fisted pen, but it has always felt more natural to me than the shorter, “easier” children’s picture book format.