While reviewing Nina Amir’s How to Blog a Book (link to my review), I realized that many of the books I’ve read are very closely related to their authors’ blogs. As someone who delights in watching others achieve big dreams, I offer you this list of bloggers who have published books based on their blogs. […]
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Online AP English Language and Composition
Sometimes our teens progress to the point where we homeschool moms need outside support. Miss 17, who has penned several novels, whose comments are popular on national news sites, and who reads much more than I do, needs more advanced teaching in reading and writing nonfiction than I can provide. We are very grateful to […]
Election Report Guidelines
You know how sometimes you just want your kids to learn and write about something without a lot of angst and procrastination? Well, we’re having an election in Ontario and that’s a golden opportunity for a report. But this time I’m telling my teens exactly what I want to see in the report. It’s almost […]
NaNoWriMo: Novel Writing for Kids (and Adults)
This Friday, all around the world, the writing frenzy of NaNoWriMo begins again. During NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, thousands of people world-wide challenge themselves to write a novel. Yes, a complete novel in a month—an unedited novel, mind you, but a novel none the less. My kids have participated in the Young Writer Program […]