VS Grenier ~ Award-Winning Author, Speaker & Podcaster

Today, Kid Lit Reviews has me as their award-winning author to discuss my book Babysitting SugarPaw .   This book won the pretigious Mom’s Choice Silver Honoree for Excellence and the 2011 League of Utah Writers Silver Quill Award.  The blog host Sue Morris is a delight to work with and she really gets to know you and your book before sending interview questions. She asked a few tough questions I had to really think about before answering. A nice change for the wrote answers I am so used to repeating time and time again. I invite you to go read the interview and Sue's review of my book today. The review will be posted a bit later so you may have to revisit the site for that post. I truly thank Sue for taking the time to read my book Babysitting SugarPaw and for interviewing me as well. If you would like to follow Kid Lit Reviews, there will be lots of new reviews and maybe an interview or two. If you are an author and would like to be interviewed, let KLR know. You

Write What You Know!  with Mary Cunningham The dream takes place in a mysterious attic. At times the attic is exciting and mysterious, but many times it is dark and foreboding. I'd just finished telling my best friend, Diana, about the recurring dream I'd had for almost 20 years, when I had a "light-bulb" moment. It occurred to me that the dream took place in the attic of my childhood friend, Cynthia. "Hmmm…" Diana pondered, "Cynthia's Attic. What a great title!" That's when the dreams stopped and the writing began. I sat in my New Jersey home wanting desperately to write about the dream and to recall the fond memories of playing in Cynthia's attic as a child. I should write a memoir! No…a picture book…maybe a song! (That didn't work!) Nothing seemed to strike me, so I let go and just started writing. A four-page memoir eventually turned into a 33,000-word young reader novel, and took more than three years to write. Anot

Rachel Yurchisin’s love of science and nature has inspired her to write her first children’s book in the hopes of passing on her passion to other young ‘budding’ naturalists. Yurchisin is a junior in high school and participates in educational programs at her city zoo and natural history museum. VS: I want to thank you for being my guest here on The Writing Mama today, Rachel. As a teen author, what do you do to help balance your writing life with your family life? Rachel: I have my family help me with my writing process. They have always supported me in anything that I do, they were the ones that were telling me to write more instead of spend time with them! VS: When did you start and how long have you been writing? Rachel: I wrote “Diary of My Days in Kenya” when I was in fifth grade, but I still continue to write poetry and reflections in my spare time for fun and for school. VS: What inspired you to write? Rachel: In fifth grade, it was part of the curriculum in Eng

Jewel Kats is an award-winning writer. She’s also one tough cookie. At the age of nine, Jewel endured a car accident. Her physical abilities altered forever. She spent weeks in the Hospital for Sick Children recovering, has survived eight leg surgeries, and currently walks with a cane. (Note: It’s fashionably handpainted!) Nothing stops Jewel. For six years, she penned a syndicated teen advice column for Scripps-Howard News Service and TorStar Syndication Services. Jewel has earned $20,000 in scholarships from Global Television Network and Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. She’s penned three children’s books, including: Reena’s Bollywood Dream, What Do You Use to Help Your Body? and her latest book Cinderella’s Magical Wheelchair . VS: Jewel, I want to thank you for being my guest here on The Writing Mama today. So to start things off, what do you do to help balance your writing life with your family life? Jewel: I’m very, very close to my family now at this point in life. I have a