by Kathleen Ernst
I wrote my first novel for adults when I was fifteen. It was not very good, of course, but I knew I’d discovered what I wanted to do.
Twenty years and ten or twelve novels later, I sold a book. It happened to be a young adult novel. One thing led to another in the juvenile/teen world. With the exception of a nonfiction book for adults, all of my published books have been written for young readers.
I love writing for children and teens, and don’t plan to give it up. Still, it’s awfully nice to sit down at the grownup table, thirty-five years after writing that first manuscript! I had a blast writing Old World Murder, am hard at work on book 2 in the series, and have ideas for more bouncing around in my head.
I am enormously grateful to all the readers who make it possible for me to do what I love.
I’ve got a blog tour set up for the month of October. Sure, I hope to spread a little buzz about the book. But I’ll also be giving a book away at each stop—winner’s choice of Old World Murder or something from my backlist. It’s a small way of saying thank you to some of the wonderful people who love mysteries, and take the time to keep in touch online. I hope you’ll drop in. You might get lucky!
I already have.
Blog Tour Schedule
10/2 – Creating Characters Readers Care About – Three Essential Traits
Poe’s Deadly Daughters
http://www.poesdeadlydaughters.blogspot.com/
10/4 – Recipe For Promotion – Are You Missing An Ingredient?
Visual Arts Junction
http://www.visualartsjunction.com/
10/5 – Writing For Grownups, Writing For Kids
Creatures & Crooks
http://www.cncbooks.com/blog
10/6 – Planting Seeds, Growing a Series
The Cozy Chicks
http://www.cozychicksblog.com/
10/7 – Reenacting For Novelists
Mary E. Trimble’s Blog
http://trimble.web.officelive.com/blog.aspx
10/8 – Handwork
Killer Crafts & Crafty Killers
http://anastasiapollack.blogspot.com/
10/11 – Start Your Mystery With A Bang!
Mystery Writing Is Murder
http://mysterywritingismurder.blogspot.com/
10/12 – Interview
Beth Groundwater’s Blog
http://bethgroundwater.blogspot.com/
10/13 – Harpers Ferry – People, Past, Place
Repeating History
http://www.mmjustus.blogspot.com/
10/15 – Chloe’s Maple Blueberry Cake
Vintage Cookbooks
http://vintagecookbooks.blogspot.com/
10/17 – Ethnic Eating
Mystery Lovers’ Kitchen
http://www.mysteryloverskitchen.com
10/19 – Have You Got What It Takes To Write A Mystery?
Heidi Thomas’s Blog
http://heidiwriter.wordpress.com/
10/20 – Revisiting My Past
Women Only Over Fifty
http://woofersclub.blogspot.com/
10/22 – Culture Clash
Thoughts In Progress
http://www.masoncanyon.blogspot.com/
10/25 – Chloe & Me – Writing From Real Life
Lori’s Reading Corner
http://www.lorisreadingcorner.com/
10/26 – Of Prairies and Plots
Walking Nature Home
http://susanjtweit.typepad.com/
10/27 – Interview
Patty Jager’s Blog
http://www.patyjager.blogspot.com/
10/28 – Creating a Cop
Mystery Book News
http://www.omnimysterynews.com/
10/29 – Theme To Be Announced
The LadyKillers
http://theladykillers.typepad.com/
11 comments:
Kathleen, so looking forward to your blog tour. You've got some very interesting topics planned. Best of luck.
Mason
Thoughts in Progress
Wow, that's a very ambitious blog tour! I hope you're not exhausted by the time you reach the end, and I hope you gain a lot of new readers and book sales as a result.
Congratulations, Kathleen! Good luck on your very impressive blog tour.
I'm exhausted just reading the list. You go!
I may have been a wee bit ambitious. But I also started planning the tour way, way ahead of time. Most of the posts are already written.
Now--I'm off to a ride-along, so please forgive me if I don't respond quickly to later comments!
Come on, Kathleen. We're your friends. Nothing can be that rosy. Go ahead. Unburden yourself. You can complain to us.
Congratulations, Kathleen. I was the youngest among my brothers and sisters and close to the age of my nephews and nieces. I understand the need to sit at the "Big Table".
Congrats, Kathleen! That looks like some blog tour--remember to get some sleep!
Thanks for the good wishes. And Keith--I'll admit, I'm already tired, and I can hardly walk through my office because of all the piles. Feel better?
Kathleen, do I seem like that kind of schadenfreude-y guy? Well, serves me right. Good luck with everything.
Keith - I'm just yanking your chain.
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