A Harvest of Fairy Tales for You
A fall harvest of fairy tales Note: The late fall sun makes the book look light green, but it’s actually purple. #writer #notaphotographer An unusual year . . . can also bear fruit This was the year I thought I’d get monster “beefsteak” tomatoes in three colors. I started plants in January. They were trees, […]
Available at a Fine Forest Book Emporium Near You
Oh! Look what’s in the fairy bookstore window! Seven Kingdoms Fairy Tales: Books 1-3 Get it at your favorite bookstore in ebook or Kindle, paperback, or hardcover! Pssst! Don’t tell the fairies, but I wouldn’t buy it from them. Nothing against the fairies. *looks around the forest* Secret fairy stuff comes up–especially in the third […]
Lexile Measures are Here!
Bumpity Boulevard Press has Lexile Measures for the Seven Kingdoms Fairy Tale series! Find Seven Kingdoms Fairy Tales in the Lexile database. Type “Laurel Decher” in the search box at this link: https://hub.lexile.com/find-a-book Find all book details for librarians and schools here. How do you use a Lexile measure to find a book that’s “just […]
Need more hidden conflict in your work-in-progress? The Conflict Thesaurus to the rescue!
Fun & Games With Conflict?! Read about how I used The Conflict Thesaurus with my Middle Grade book below. Does it work for children’s authors? I write books for ages 9 to 12, so I look at writing tools with that audience in mind. While working on the fourth book in my Seven Kingdoms Fairy […]
When Helping Feels like a Festival
Breathtaking beauty of Mayschoß, before the flooding. Being part of the hope is the best kind of vacation. Yesterday, I was a worked in a vineyard! My friend, Heike, found out where to help people who’ve had their homes and businesses flooded out in the Ahr valley. It’s an area with many small vineyards. A […]
Book Fairies? What are Book Fairies?
Trouble With Parsnips has been picked up by the book fairies. Look for hidden copies all over the EU.
How is a story is like a crossword puzzle?
A fairy tale village on the Mosel River in Germany, complete with half-timbered houses and ruined castle. ©LaurelDecher, 2021 While you wait for me to solve my puzzle, here’s a crossword for you A crossword puzzle isn’t something you solve by working your way from top to bottom. Sometimes it works to “solve” a story […]
Is Ingram rejecting your print files? Here’s the Mac fix.
To publish a print edition of a book, both IngramSpark and Amazon ask for a print quality PDF that is “flattened” and includes “embedded fonts”. Here’s how you do this with Scrivener3 and LibreOffice. (I think Windows computers may be able to create a print quality PDF a different way. These directions are for Mac.) […]
Get a hilarious adventure for your kids on GooglePlay Books!
Do you read on GooglePlay? It’s the perfect time to go blissfully astray . . . planning for a vegetable garden, on a hike, or in a fun children’s book! GooglePlay Books has a giveaway for the first book in the Seven Kingdoms Fairy Tale series! (For ages 9 to 12.) Have you been meaning […]
Deleted scenes from LOST WITH LEEKS: Queen Ash and St. Nicholas
LOST WITH LEEKS What would you do if your mother put St. Nick in the dungeon? Eleven-year-old Prince Nero wishes he didn’t have a gift for getting lost! He has to get his team together and lead a rescue mission for St. Nicholas. But his friends don’t want to follow him. A hot air balloon […]
Make your own bread guys for St. Nicholas Day!
Bread Guys a.k.a. Weckmänner or Stutenkerle ©Laurel Decher, 2021 In Germany, you can buy these in every bakery at this time of year: Weckmänner or Stutenkerle or “bread guys” (as they are called at our house). In the Rhineland part of Germany, people eat these for St. Martin’s day. At our house, we have bread […]
A Seven Kingdoms #BookBirthday Celebration!
#BookBirthday Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting It’s pumpkin time again and that means it’s the perfect time to listen to a book and bake some pumpkin bars with the gang! The recipe follows below and there’s a zany book suggestion that the whole family will enjoy. It’s for ages 9 to 12, but the […]