Lullaby For the King: A New Picture Book by Nikki Grimes by A Review by Carol Baldwin
The calendar tells me it’s October, but before you know it, December will be here and it’ll be time for the holidays. I’m getting ahead of the game with today’s book review. Many of you are familiar with the multi-talented award-winning children’s author Nikki Grimes. I’ve featured her books in verse for middle-grade students and young […]
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The Best Novel Written by ChatGPT
The Two Lives of Ezekiel Van Cleef is the greatest novel ever written by AI. Why? Because I helped write it. While this sounds arrogant, I think any novel that has 10% of the writing done by a human is better than any novel written 100% by AI. In fact, productivity aside, I would say […]
Making the Most of Your Author Visits by Jennifer Mills Barnes
Today we welcome a new blogger to our team. Jennifer M. Barnes is a retired kindergarten and first-grade teacher and will draw from those experiences in her upcoming posts. She is thrilled to be part of our blogging team and we’re excited to have her! **** “So, tell me about this new kid,” a kindergarten […]
Authors Can Better Market Themselves by Knowing How Book Bloggers Make Money by Guest Blogger, Kristin Wynalda
Not too long ago I was having a lovely conversation with a friend about my book review website, and I mentioned the percentage that my website’s income had gone up over the past year. She was floored that I actually made money from reviewing books, and said, “You mean those people who write websites get […]
Book Review: The First Unicorn by Kathleen J. Shields
“And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.” (Isaiah 34:7 KJV) If you ever come across this verse in the King James Bible, it might give you some pause. Unicorns and blood? In Isaiah? […]
A Different Kind of Writing Prompt
Writing prompts are used by students and writers alike to challenge their creativity and/or to improve writing skills. They can be presented in a variety of ways – phrases, questions, topics – the sky’s the limit. Their purpose is to present you with an idea or thought that you can expand upon, allowing you to […]
So Why Isn’t War and Peace a Chapter Book?
By Guest Blogger and upcoming MC teacher, Marianne Hering Before I tell you why a fiction book with a whopping 361 chapters is not a chapter book, let me ramble about myself for a minute. Gauche, I know, but it’s part of the answer. So, I’ve written a few books in my day. I wrote […]
MESSAGES: A Picture Book Review by Guest Blogger, Jean Taylor
At Write2Ignite we are always thrilled when one of our team publishes a book. This time, I have the double pleasure of sharing Gail Cartee’s new picture book with you since we are in the same critique group. The reviewer is Jean Taylor, a graphic designer in North Carolina. This is Jean’s debut book review […]
Introducing Monarch Publishing
I’m so excited to share this new publisher of “Clean Reads that You Can Trust” that I was actually glad for a hole in our blog schedule (it usually throws me into a panic) to tell you about Monarch. I think many of you will be interested to learn about Jen Lowry and her (relatively) […]