January Catch-up

One of my resolutions is to keep my website more up to date! After the Memento Nora series (and blogging as part of a group blog for years), I got burnt out on social media and blogging.  And last year, I focused mostly on writing educational titles. I was a science writer for many, many years. So now, in addition to writing fiction, I’m writing about science and technology again, but for younger readers. Over the last 12 months or so, I’ve actually written 5 nonfiction books:

• Amazing Feats of Aerospace Engineering.  (ABDO 2014).
• 12 Great Moments that Changed Internet History.  (Black Rabbit 2015)
• 12 Great Moments that Changed Radio History (Black Rabbit 2015)
• 12 Great Facts about the Moon Landing. (Black Rabbit 2015)
• 12 Great Facts about Dropping the Atomic Bombs.  (Black Rabbit 2015)

All of them are high-interest educational titles, written primarily for the library market. The reading level of the first book is 6-8th grade, but it’s probably appropriate for high school level readers. The latter books are 4th grade reading level.

I’ve also been polishing up a new fiction project with my lovely new agent, Susan Hawk of the Bent Agency. This book is very different from the Memento Nora series. In my head, I was calling this new thing Appalachian fantasy, but Susan tells me it’s really magical realism. And that’s all I’ll say about that. 😉