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Q&A: VS Grenier, Founder of Stories for Children and Author of Babysitting SugarPaw « Write On Online http://bit.ly/emhOwU "Please RT"

VS Grenier, Babysitting SugarPaw, is an award-winning children’s author, founder and owner of Stories for Children Publishing, LLC., award-winning editor-in-chief of Stories for Children Magazine, and chief editor for Halo Publishing, Int. She also hosts the blog talk radio show: Stories for Children on the World of Ink Network. Grenier is a member of the League of Utah Writers (HWG), Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and Musing Our Children.

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