So this morning, I found my cat… trying to get something from behind one of my bookcases. (And that was only five minutes after I left my office to go grab something.) So what was it? A bird. To be more exact, a BABY bird that couldn’t even fly. Now, you have to understand that […]
i’m alive
I just want to assure you, much to the disappointment of someone somewhere out there in the world, I am alive! And why haven’t I been posting? Good question, and the only answer I can give is that I am helping organize the Writing and Illustrating for Young Reader’s Conference this summer . . . […]
my main character and I are so not friends
So I realized the other day that when I read a book, sometimes I imagine that the author is the same at the protagonist. Weird, right? But being a writer myself, I know that a book is like a mirror into the author’s soul. You can’t write a book without putting a piece of yourself […]
there’s a snake hiding in my stairs
Reminder: Last day to enter fun contest. There is a snake hiding in my steps. I saw it yesterday when I was about to walk into my house. My thought: Gee . . . how did that thick rope fall down that crack? Maybe I should grab it . . . oh wait, that looks […]
the mice in heaven are throwing snowballs at us
I’ll admit, I never had an imaginary friend. When my little sister was three, Disney’s Pocahontas came out, and suddenly John Smith was her new best (though very much invisible) friend. Once, she jumped out from under the table and shot me with a snorkle (yes, the thing you go swimming with) and shouted: ZAPP! […]
Chersti Nieveen 