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- 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
This is posted in two parts on my original blog - http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com - so here is the full thing - E :)
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
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
Due to a publisher/author problem, my stories are no longer avaiable. I have to cancel the contest but those of you who have already purchased the story for the contest, if you will email me with the answers to the questions, I will honor the contest by giving you your own butterfly - hand colored in your choice of colors as listed previously - E :)
Posted on June 28, 2007 at 10:32am —
BUTTERFLY HALVES CONTEST -
ENTER BUTTERFLY HALVES CONTEST AND WIN YOUR CHOICE
How to enter the contest:
1. Purchase your
… Continue 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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Are you ready?
Anyway, I hope to get the house into decent shape before Christmas, when I do my annual meal for the family. There's also that Christmas list to get together. Time is ticking away.
What about you? Are you ready for Christmas? Or do you celebrate another Holiday? If so, are you ready?
Please Welcome Mary Cunningham, Cynthia's Attic Author
One of the main reasons for writing "Cynthia's Attic" came from my failure - failure to appreciate my ancestors. Our family stories are probably no more or less interesting than most, and I went out of my way to avoid remembering most of them or asking questions about my grandparents lives.
Or did I try to find out just which relative "supposedly" sold a city block on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for $20,000? Guaranteed, I would not be sitting here writing a blog had that particular relative held on to the property.
Then there's the story, "Cynthia's Attic: Curse of the Bayou," of my great-great grandfather, Augustus Boilliat who disappeared in 1860 while taking a load of produce down the Mississippi River to New Orleans? Oh, sure I've read different accounts about what happened to him, but lost forever are the stories his grandson (my grandfather) could've told me about facts he'd heard from my great-great grandmother, Marie Julia, about her husband's disappearance.
I remember a few accounts told by my dad about his adventures as a teenage cave guide at one of the largest caves in the Southern Indiana area, Wyandotte, but I only have to guess at some of the adventures he must've had.
The idea for Cynthia's Attic: The Magician's Castle came from detailed genealogy research done by my cousin, Betty. Long before the Internet, she traveled to Switzerland to search for documents that would tie our great-grandmother, Harriet Kistler, to Peter Kistler the First, President of the Republic of Bern, 1470-1480. I've tried to honor the Kistler family in the fourth adventure in Cynthia's Attic.
Thanks, Morgan, for having me as a guest!
Mary Cunningham
She is also co-writer of the humor-filled, women's lifestyle book, "Women Only Over Fifty (WOOF)," along with published stories, "Ghost Light" and "Christmas Daisy," A Cynthia's Attic short story.
To celebrate the release of "The Magician's Castle," (Quake/Echelon Press, DEC 1, 2009), a winner will be chosen on each blog stop to receive a copy of the "Cynthia's Attic" short story, "Christmas With Daisy!" So, be sure to make a comment!
Mary Cunningham Books
http://www.marycunninghambooks.com/
Cynthia's Attic Blog
http://www.cynthiasattic.blogspot.com/
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Cunningham/e/B002BLNEK4/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=digital-text&field-author=Mary%20Cunningham
Fictionwise
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/a20811/Mary-Cunningham/?
Quake/Echelon Press
http://www.echelonpress.com/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=23&zenid=4ac57b7ae19fa071cab3b4295df7baf3
Please leave a comment to welcome Mary.
Check out the Mystery of the Missing Checks
Monday, I'm over at my group blog, http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com/, where I'm blogging about the mystery of the missing checks. Come on over and find out what it's all about.Thanks,
Morgan Mandel
Can We Talk?
I'm firming up some dates for speaking engagements in 2010. One's tentatively set for March 28, at 1:30 at the Niles Public Library, another probably in mid May at the Schaumburg Township District Library.Also, coming up is a radio interview at WJJQ again on May 7, at 9:35 a.m. before my booksigning May 8 at Cover to Cover Books in Tomahawk, WI.
I've heard that some people are more afraid of public speaking than of dying. Surprisingly, I find it easier each time I do it. As long as I have my cheat sheet with me to glance down at once in a while for security and I like what I'm talking about, I'm okay.
What about you? Do you like to talk or would you rather not?
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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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