#NAHeritage Month – Ada Deer
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South Dakota Festival of Books Responses
The South Dakota Festival of Books went virtual! The coordinators and South Dakota Humanities Council celebrated SDBFest’s 18th year of “bringing readers and writers together” with more than 100 presentations – Wowie! I had the pleasure of participating in the event this year with two appearances, both highlighting different parts of my book SIOUX CODE
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Use 10 Author Tools to Entice Readers to Read On
When I was teaching, I read the novel “Number the Stars” with my students. One of the task we did in class was to rewrite the last few lines of each of the chapters onto one page and discuss what we found. We made conclusions that were eye-opening. The author used cliffhangers as a way
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Prairie Lotus Teacher Resources
I love this quote. When you think about it, writing one page a day is an easy goal to achieve, and by the end of a year- you’ll have an entire book! I’ve heard writing friend and author Linda Sue Park talk about writing daily. She raises the bar a bit, writing two pages a
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