Image – Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

CYM London

Love this pic from last week’s London presentation. So nice to see CYM London kids in the audience.

St. Vincent ES visit

It was so nice to visit with St. Vincent ES students and discuss overcoming personal challenges, empathy and compassion, World War II and the war in Ukraine. Students had lots of questions about Making Bombs for Hitler, Stolen Girl and The War Below.

Starred review from Booklist!

starred review for Under Attack from Booklist.

Just putting this up here because I like flowers

Kidnapped from Ukraine: Under Attack — book 1 and #1!

This novel will be published on Jan 7, 2025, so imagine my surprise to see it pop up as a #1 release on Amazon.com. Yay!

A pic from the Kobzar event with Adrian Lysenko

Just had a virtual chat with two first-time-published kidcritters and Adrian’s name came up. Then I realized, this lovely pic wasn’t on my website. Adrian has been in my writing group for a very long time and he’s a FABULOUS writer.

from March 21, at Kobzar Book Award night with fellow nominee and fellow longtime kidcritter, @AdrianLysenko. Congratulations to the winner, Myrna Kostash!!!

Meeting with Ms Coffman’s book club!

Thank you, Ms Coffman, for the opportunity to meet with your avid readers from Limestone MS, IL! I loved their well-thought-out questions about a bunch of my books, and also about creativity and research!

Egg family photo

Am about to give a bunch away so wanted to take a snap before they fly the coop!

Birdies

Last two pysanky for a bit. Just got the next set of edits. This is a double yolk xxl egg, and a pee wee egg.

four circles

I don’t have very many pee wee eggs left, but these are a couple of the last ones for this year. Experimenting with four circles pattern.