Elysabeth Eldering's Blog (10)

Well it's been a long time since I've been on this forum but life has been kind of crazy of late.



My illustrator submitted my cover for my first book, State of Wilderness, to the Coveys back in August and she got notification last weekend that the cover would be posted this week. So, please everyone, jump over to the… Continue

State of Quarries is officially finished (a few minor edits to fix up and resubmit to Vivian) including the teacher's guide. I also have completed State of Wilderness's Teacher's guide as well.



I'm using the word counts from the stories I do this month and the teacher's guides (what I don't copy and paste) towards my 20,000 word count goal for NaNo (November is National Novel Writing Month with an original, preset goal of writing 50,000 words in 30 days - since I do short stories and… Continue

Product Details



Reading level: Ages 9-12



Paperback: 100 pages

Publisher: 4RV Publishing LLC (June 27, 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0979751357

ISBN-13: 978-0979751356

Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces











Book 1 of the JGDS, 50-state, mystery… Continue

It seems blogtalkradio was having some technological issues (not recording or streamlining) so the interview has been rescheduled for Thursday, April 17, at 2 pm central (3 eastern/2 central/1 mountain/12 noon pacific). Hope you all get a chance to come and listen then - E :)

Have you been thinking outside the box for ways to promote your books? How about a radio interview? Every genre has someone who does them, I'm sure. I will be doing my first ever interview tomorrow. Here is the info (posted from my blog posting, so from my characters POV). Hope you can come visit and listen - E :)





If you will be around on Monday, April 7, 2008, at 2 p.m. central (3 eastern, 1 mountain and 12 Pacific), come check out… Continue

Book festivals are fun - you get to meet new authors and some more familiar ones alike. You get to renew friendships and acquaintances from other areas of the writing life. I was a volunteer at the SC Book Festival for the fourth year in a row. I had a blast, save my horror story. So long story but overall, the book festival was another success.



(This is posted in two parts on my regular blog - http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com)



The SC Book Festival was this past… Continue

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 :)

So I was playing around with this online trading card maker and came up with a trading card fit for a postcard. Let me know what you think of the front. I'm not really pleased with how I had to do the back so will play around with that - but here is the front and back -

The front is pretty cool - the back well I need to play around with it a bit… Continue

I just created the blog for my mystery state stories. Check out my blog at http://jgdsseries.blogspot.com. Feel free to leave me a comment, let me know what you would like to see more of and watch the progression of the series all the way to publication.

This is a children's series and the reader will be given clues from the handheld game, just as my characters - friends - Guy, Matt, Jolene and Mary Beth (Matt's younger sister) -…

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Well, I have a contract in the works for my state stories - it is a 50-story/5-year deal with about one new state a month coming out. As per the publisher's info, I will probably see my first story sometime in September or October and then hopefully one a month after that. See a write-up about the series on http://willowravenillustration.blogspot.com/, Aidana WillowRaven's blog, and let her know that she…

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