Tag: Enslow Publishers

Back and looking forward

As you may have noticed, blogging has taken a back seat to other activities recently while I was acting in Beauty and the Beast up in Saskatoon, but I’m settling back into a regular home routine again and ready to start off a new year of Hassenpfeffering. And it’s looking to be quite the year. …

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Cover of my Janis Joplin book

As I noted in the previous post, my children’s biography of Janis Joplin, Take Another Little Piece of My Heart, will be out from Enslow Publishers as part of their American Rebels series sometime this year (currently, Amazon says May). I just discovered the cover art has now been posted on Amazon, and here it …

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Back and looking forward

As you may have noticed, blogging has taken a back seat to other activities recently while I was acting in Beauty and the Beast up in Saskatoon, but I’m settling back into a regular home routine again and ready to start off a new year of Hassenpfeffering. And it’s looking to be quite the year. …

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One thing ends, new things begin

Why, yes, I haven’t been posting much beyond my columns: thanks for noticing! It seems like since I got back from the Canadian Chamber Choir tour I’ve been either too busy or too tired to do much beyond the occasional blog post. But perhaps that can change now that I have finished one thing and …

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Looking ahead to 2008…

…it appears I will be writing two more books for Enslow‘s American Rebels series, for which I wrote the Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin biographies: one on Johnny Cash and one on Andy Warhol. Should be fun! Now I should really finish the two pending Enslow books I have to write…

The latest additions to my oeuvre…

…arrived this week, to whit my thrill-a-minute educational books Neon and Magnesium, both published by Rosen Publishing. The books are part of Rosen’s series “Understanding the Elements of the Periodic Table.” It looks like I’ll soon be working on another Rosen book plus two more for the other educational publisher I do quite a bit …

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A review of my bio of Jimi Hendrix

I found this on Amazon today: the first review I’ve seen of my children’s biography Jimi Hendrix: Kiss the Sky(Enslow Publishers), from Booklist: From the American Rebels series, this biography introduces electric-guitar virtuoso Jimi Hendrix. Readers may be tempted to skim the opening pages, which explore Hendrix’s family tree back to the 1800s and chronicle …

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For those keeping score at home…

…I finished my Janis Joplin biography for Enslow Publishers Monday and emailed it in the same day. Yesterday was mostly a science column-and-revising-Untitled Science Fiction Novel day. More revising today (I’m up to about page 80 of almost 500–still a long way to go–and I’ve already added 3,000 words. Gulp.). Boring stuff like cleaning my …

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