Down at the Depot with
Children's Writer Karen Kulinski

In the beginning of 2014, I decided to write a monthly blog on The Year of IVY, since I was sure my book RESCUING IVY would be coming out sometime during 2015. I would tell the story of the book from idea to printed page.

I made a great start, writing about how I got the  Read More 

A year ago, I set out to write about my middle grade novel, RESCUING IVY, having been led to believe by my editor that the book would be published in late 2014, early 2015. My goal was to blog about the novel in the year prior to publication, from getting the original idea to actually holding  Read More 

Grandma came to our house for Thanksgiving again this year, as she has for the 37 years I’ve been married her son. For the past 20 years, however, she’s not come in person, but in the form of a white Poinsettia.

You see, we  Read More