Here's the scoop on how to help and support an author. All six of these suggestions are great ways to help an author succeed! Even doing one of them is more helpful than you realize. So if you know an author, or enjoy the work they do give them so help! You may be supporting the next #1 bestseller! 

My kickstarter for the new Dash and Zoom book series launched National Dog Day! Please share it on your page, with your friends and family! We are in a race to fund this book! Please help us win!    

The good side of getting things wrong is that it enhances rather than detracts from learning. It’s how we challenge our children to learn to do things differently. Learning from mistakes helps develop wisdom and good judgment.

I found this review today - how I didn't see it before I don't know. For the entire review follow the link at the bottom!  Thanks Black Raven!

I am on a roll with finding funny and education poop books. Steve the Dung Beetle: On a Roll could have been dull. But Susan R. Stoltz’s...

Though Valentine's Day has never been my favorite holiday, many people enjoy it. Some get quite irritated if their 'loved one' happens to forget, or makes less a deal about it than expected.

When I wrote Flamboyance and began to visit schools it became evident that teaching language was much easier when entertaining animals came to the rescue.

Books are a great idea in so many ways. Reading is the gift of a lifetime, but children in less than ideal situations aren’t often the recipient of things educational, entertaining, or valuable, rather their physical needs must come first. Donating books to a children’s home, child crisis center, foster care facility, children’s hospital, libraries, your child’s school library, teacher, or a school in lower income areas is a great solution, and I can help.

  After months of hard work formatting images, writing blogs, poems, descriptive info, and learning how to navigate behind the webpage ( with help from a skilled professional who I thank from the bottom of my novice heart ) I now have a new website. You can buy my books here, find new products in the making, including an upcoming release of a collection of my stained glass patterns, chapter books for young readers, and a gardening journal. There's a great book deal in celebration of this release - 3 for $33! Please visit my new site and feel free to comment!  And so my friends, I leave you with this poem. “A new website is needed!” That’s what I was...

  Sometimes when I’m supposed to be writing something important or creative my brain just shuts down and then I sit and wait. And wait. And wait. Every author has a different routine to overcome writers block. Some just give up for the day because it can be a challenge. Some writers go for a walk or listen to music. Caffeine can change the game for others. There are a million ways to cope with this syndrome, in fact there are more articles on how to overcome writers block than how to be a great writer! For me, I love to do short poems. I find something unique or delicious, beautiful or funny, even scorpions have made the poem list. I...