VS Grenier ~ Award-Winning Author, Speaker & Podcaster

Blog Talk Radio’s World of Ink Network has a new show: Families Matter with hosts VS Grenier and Kecia Burcham. The Families Matter show will air live once a month on the 3 rd Wednesday at 6pm EST. The idea of this new show on Blog Talk Radio’s World of Ink Network is to have guests (adults or kids) share information to help empower children and their families . The first show on June 15, 2011 will be about bullying and how children and their families can deal with this ever growing problem. Host Kecia Burcham works as a middle school counselor and holds a masters degree in education/school counseling as well as being a certified trainer in the "7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens" curriculum. She is also a certified NLP life coach, business coach, master weight loss coach and social/emotional intelligence coach. Kecia is a published poet, author and songwriter. She has worked in the field of education/psychology for 20 years and has one grown daughter. Host VS Grenier is

Stories for Children Magazine is pleased to announce the May 2011 issue is now available for purchase and download at the SFCMagazine website http://storiesforchildrenmagazine.org . Going into its fourth year of publication, this award-winning Ezine has delighted children around the world for three years, and features works and interviews from children’s authors and illustrators from top publishers to small indie publications, along with offering free worksheets to educators and home-school parents, coloring pages, crafts, thought provoking articles and inspiring stories. Stories for Children Magazine’s May 2011 issue features multi award-winning author Bobbie Hinman of the Best Book Fairy series . Bobbie Hinman has a degree in Elementary Education and thanks to her teaching experience (and ten grand children), she is right at home when it comes to creating stories that reveal some of the less practical and more magical explanations for life’s little mysteries. After all, who b

Rosemarie Gillen, Art Director of SFC, is a professional Children's Book Illustrator. She has won several awards and has been published traditionally and online. She specializes in enhancing children's book with her unique style of illustrations. Her style is colorful, happy and child friendly displaying the sweet innocence and simplicity of childhood.  Her interests range from painting reproductions of great masters to reading, and horseback riding. You can find more of her work at www.rosemariegillen.com VS: Rosemarie, thanks for being here today. It's been lots of fun working with you and getting to know you. So now it's time for the SFC fans and my readers to learn more about the SFC Team so can you tell us a little bit about your background and how you became an Illustrator. Rosemarie: In the 80’s I remember falling in love with a Van Gogh and I imagined myself painting it. So I went and brought supplies and started painting to satisfy my curiosity a