Raising a Reader

For Halloween, my little preschooler dressed up as Cinderella last year and ended up at her favorite place toward the end of the night…the bookstore.

She loves to read, as I did growing up and as I still do.  Now I write books.  Of course the first step in becoming a writer is to be an avid reader.  To encourage a lifelong passion for reading and books, it’s important to model being a reader for your child.  Children pick up a lot of habits from parents, and reading is one of them…so, if you want to raise a reader, you have to be a reader, too.  Happy Halloween!

Phantom Diaries Book 2 – Dark Memories Now Out!

The past has become present, and all the players are in place.

Dark Memories has been released midnight today in Kindle, soon-to-follow in paperback in Amazon.com, BN.com, and other stores in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

I am quite satisfied with the ending to this book as it does answer a lot of questions from the first book (but this is a series so I can’t answer all the questions yet), and there is a prequel called Dark Beginnings that I’m working on right now that will shed some light on The Phantom. Dark Beginnings is about The Phantom’s mother as a young woman. Hopefully, that will be available in December or January.

We’ll see…in the meantime, there will be more discussion questions sheets for download on this blog and on my publisher’s blog, theedgebooks.com coming this week. Stay tuned!