I was lucky enough to participate in Career Day at Ballwin Elementary in St. Louis, MO, to talk about being a children’s writer and share my middle-grade historical fiction novel, FINDING MY PLACE. The fifth grade class was extremely well-behaved with great questions and ideas. I think I might have scared some of them when I said if they know a writer well, they could find themselves in that writer’s next book. Of course, one student came up to me afterwards and asked to be put in my next book. I’ll have to work on that! Thank you to Stephanie Dambach, the counselor at Ballwin Elementary, for inviting me!
I’m sharing the tools it takes to be a children’s writers. The kids came up with great ones, too, like persistence and imagination!
And here I am sharing how useful a library is for children’s writers. The students knew that writers NEED to read.
