Vonna | September 28, 2009
The first time my husband, son (then age nine) and I sat down at the kitchen table to play a game of Dungeons and Dragons, it was a heartbreaking disaster. For my son, that is. You see, he created a character with all the passion and energy that nine-year-olds put into this sort of thing. [...]
Vonna | September 21, 2009
Remember the book The Never Ending Story by Michael Ende?
When I’m working on a novel, that title frequently comes to mind. I don’t want to bog down my book with backstory, but some characters have such interesting histories that I can’t leave their tales to linger untold. So I write them out.
In one of my [...]
Vonna | September 14, 2009
One of the things I most enjoyed about my child’s elementary school was having an opportunity to work in the school library. My son attended the same school from Kindergarten through fifth grade, and I volunteered in the library for all those years.
When he started Kindergarten I was totally gung-ho. I rushed to sign up [...]
Vonna | September 7, 2009
The Call of the Wild was one of the first books that I truly fell in love with. I was eleven when I found it in a neighbor’s garage sale. That summer I read it more times than I can recall. I continued to read it periodically throughout my teens and early adulthood, but not [...]
