VS Grenier ~ Award-Winning Author, Speaker & Podcaster

There is no interview with an SFC Team Member today. Instead I have a wonderful guest post to share from World of Ink Tour Guests Tom Listul & Heather Listul Hewitt. What makes a good chidren's story / book ? Every children’s story that I have enjoyed has had some main ingredients.  Interesting Characters and Story Line First and foremost, it is important to have interesting characters and an interesting story line that will hold the reader’s attention. Children need to be able to relate to the story and have fun reading it.  Wording The words in a children’s story are the core of the book, but the illustrations are also very important. The overall feeling of a story can change dramatically depending on how the words are depicted through pictures.  Artwork/Illustrations I think a good children’s story has illustrations that match the message that the words are trying to depict. It is also fun to see illustrations that are unique and colorful, because they will...

For Immediate Release   Co-Authors Tom Listul and Heather Listul Hewitt to be Featured Guests on RRRadio-RFK: Stories for Children –March 21, 2011   Blog Talk Radio’s Robin Falls Kids Show: Stories for Children with hosts (VS Grenier, D.M. Cunningham and Kris Quinn Christopherson) will be chatting with father and daughter author team Tom Listul and Heather Listul Hewitt about their book, Monkey Made Dream . Tom and Heather will also be sharing writing tips, and trials and tribulations of the writer’s life. Tom Listul wrote Monkey Made Dream with his daughter, Heather Listul Hewitt, when she was eight years old. A farmer from southwest Minnesota, he is also a singer/songwriter. Listul made Monkey Made Dream into a children’s song and has sang it at numerous coffee houses and children’s classrooms. Hewitt is now a speech-language pathologist, who works for a school district with students of all ages. She enjoys helping children develop literacy skills and a love for rea...

Tom Listul wrote Monkey Made Dream with his daughter, Heather Listul Hewitt, when she was eight years old. A farmer from southwest Minnesota, he is also a singer/songwriter. Listul made Monkey Made Dream into a children’s song and has sang it at numerous coffee houses and children’s classrooms. Hewitt is now a speech-language pathologist, who works for a school district with students of all ages. She enjoys helping children develop literacy skills and a love for reading.    VS: I want to thank you Tom and Heather for being my guests here on The Writing Mama today.  To get things started what do you do to help balance your writing life with your family life? Tom: I draw ideas from everyday activity and make mental notes to myself or I write down an idea that I have that maybe I can use later on.  I try to find some time each day to write down something. VS: How long have you been writing? Tom: I have been writing off and on since I was about 19 or 20....