It's Day 3 of A Gathering of Horror and it's Halloween! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! :) Today we have an extra special treat for you. Our oldest daughter turned 11 today, and she and her friend teamed up to write you this awesome short story! You might know Madelynne from Maddie World, where she and her sisters [...]
It's Halloween week and that means SCARY TALES and one of our favorite Halloween traditions started by Neil Gaiman, All Hallow's Read, where you give the gift of a scary story for Halloween. Since we can't mail you each a scary book for Halloween (can you IMAGINE the postage?) we will instead give you a [...]
This morning we read an article by Neil Gaiman (a beloved favorite author of ours), called Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming. We encourage you to read this article as well as it emphatically and enthusiastically shares the reasons why reading fiction is so very important, for children and adults and all [...]
Haters gonna hate. Charles Dickins' Pickwick Papers made serial novels popular way before the internet So maybe this post will end up preaching to the choir, I don't know. I'm not sure it will change anyone's mind on anything, but I feel it needs to be said. Lately, I've seen a rash of [...]
It will come as no surprise to anyone who knows me well that Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite authors. In fact, he is the first to ignite in me a love of the short story. I'd read short stories in school, as we all did, but I'd never really enjoyed them much, and [...]
Books have changed my life. Or, maybe a better way of saying it is books have shaped my life. I wouldn't be who I am today without books. I can't even imagine who I would have become, to be honest. I don’t remember the first book I ever read, or fell in love with, but [...]
