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Check out Installment #5 of “Pics and Clips from the Oregon Trail.” It’s part of my virtual tour from our recent trek across the Oregon Trail. The virtual tour highlights locations where characters in my upcoming historical fiction book, California Trail Discovered, stopped. If you are first to correctly answer a question from the above …[ read more ]

Congratulations to the three book winners from my August blog post on Gail Kittleson’s website. I used a random drawing app to pick the winners. It would have been fun to somehow do the drawing live and record it to display here, because you get to watch the wheel spin as it makes sound effects. …[ read more ]

Would love to hear your comments on the newly-released book trailer for “California Trail Discovered.” https://vimeo.com/455557426 The book will be published next month by WordCraft Press, https://www.wordcrafts.net/marie-sontag/. This middle grade novel includes links to free S.T.E.M./S.T.E.A.M. lessons teachers and homeschoolers can download and use along with this short novel, making it interactive for readers ages …[ read more ]

At 5pm Saturday, August 1, people in Poland will celebrate the 76th anniversary of Warsaw’s Uprising during WWII. Sirens will blare and people will stop what they’re doing for one minute in remembrance of past heroes who gave their all for Poland’s freedom in 1944. Thursday night I read a chapter of my revised version …[ read more ]

Do you ever wish your novel might someday be made into a movie? Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl, had to wait 19 years for it to happen! Although the movie had mixed reviews, my husband loved this sci-fi adventure when we watched it last night on the Disney Channel. I remember my 6th-grade students …[ read more ]