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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- Author - Coming soon State of Wilderness, a Junior Geography Detective Squad series, 50-state trivia mystery series. (Release August 2008)
- Do You Have A Website?
- http://jgdsseries.blogspot.com - Junior Geography Detective Squad blog
http://junior-geography-detective-squad.weebly.com/ - JGDS website
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jgdsseries/ JGDS newsletter forum
http://elysabetheldering.weebly.com
- About Me:
- Elysabeth Eldering is 46 years old and lives in a small town in upper South Carolina. She enjoys reading, cross stitch, crochet and writing. Her first story was written on a dare from a friend, but she found that she really enjoyed the creative outlet.
Her writing credits include "Train of Clues" (a shared second place winner on Armchair Interviews), "The Proposal" (an April Fool's Day contest shared second place winner on Armchair Interviews), and "The Tulip Kiss" (fast and frigid contest winner on Echelon Press) and "Butterfly Halves", a young adult fantasy, (the latter two were published by Echelon Press but are no longer available). Her most recent story, "Bride-and-Seek", was accepted and published in the SCWW anthology The Petigru Review and is available on amazon.com. She has an article on editing and self publishing to her credit, also published on Armchair Interviews.
The newest series to her writing accomplishment is the Junior Geography Detective Squad, coming from 4RV Publishing LLC in the fall of 2008. Her stories will feature each state as a mystery destination with the kids guessing the state after being given clues and facts about each state.
Elysabeth was asked to create and edit a storyline for the Magazine of Unbelievable Stories (now defunct) with past issues still available through www.amazon.com.
In 2007 and 2008, Elysabeth volunteered to judge stories submitted for the Derringers Awards.
Mother of 3 children, she spends many weekends at marching band competitions. When she has free time from work, family and writing, she participates in several writing groups including Sisters in Crime and the South Carolina Writers Workshop, both in Greenville, SC.
- Do you have a blog site?
- http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com
- Favorite Books:
- Mysteries or Thrillers, some YA (since I'm going to be writing YA/middle grade mysteries). Any well written book
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- The Open Book (Greenville, SC); Books-A-Million (Anderson, SC)
Elysabeth Eldering's Blog
Good Times and Bad Times - a SC Book Festival review - cross posting
The SC Book Festival was this past weekend and as you can see I had good times and bad times. Let's get the bad times out of the way so I can really talk about all the good times I had.
I headed to Columbia Friday afternoon, later than I had originally planned because of daughter being sick during the week and having to take her to the doctor's office and then taking her t… Continue
Posted on February 26, 2008 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments
Rock of Realm, author interview posted
Hey everyone - stop by my blog today and leave a comment for Lea and be entered in the drawing for an ebook copy of "Rock of Realm", a YA fantasy novel that is being republished in print this year. See you in the postings - E :)
Posted on February 18, 2008 at 11:18am —
Butterfly Halves contest canceled
Posted on June 28, 2007 at 10:32am —
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Posted on June 25, 2007 at 11:09am —
Second Time around
I don't know about most of you but when you get your first publishing contract, it is very exciting - can't sit still, must shout it from the rooftops and do the happy dance. How about when you get the second one? or the third? or the 100th? Are you still excited when you get acceptance and receive the contract, even if the contract is basically the same as the first?
I know I am. I received my first contract in January from the Fast and Frigid contest for Echelon Press. That
… ContinuePosted on May 29, 2007 at 11:07am —
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I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?
A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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Thanks for the add. I look forward to getting to know you better.
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Have a great weekend and let's talk soon,
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I figure it can't hurt to be on lots of groups and get myself out there - it's harder to promote ebooks than it is in print books but I'm hanging in there - I would love to see my sales sore but maybe that will happen when my new story "Butterfly Halves" comes out (hopefully soon) - E :)
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