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My Love of Typewriters

When I think back to my earliest memories of writing and telling stories and how I slowly learned my craft, to form my words, to compose a story, typewriters were inextricably intertwined. Even from the age of three or four, I had a wild imagination.  I remember making up elaborate fantasy worlds with the complexity …

My Family of Texas Beekeepers

In FINDING ESME (Greenwillow Books Aug 14 2018), The McCauley family has had a long history of raising bees in the wilds of the woods of  north Texas.  Esme’s grandmother Bee and her sister Sweetmaw are even named after the family business.  Esme has always been deathly afraid of the bees; to her they represent …