Lisa DeSelm

Spinning away…

As I was looking at my blog yesterday, I realized I haven’t posted in two months! What on earth have I been up to? Well, lots of trips to the park, the playground, picnics, the beach, the pool and eating copious amounts of hot dogs, cheeseburgers and ice cream. In other words: it’s summer, and I’ve been […]

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Daily Doodle

Just read this last night in Do Over by Jon Acuff and it’s totally messing with my mind in a good way. “Day one of our new adventure behind us, we are shocked to learn the hardest lesson of chasing a dream. When you go for it, you don’t escape fear, you land in it. Fear

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Nursery Rhyme Reboot: 1

I haven’t been blogging a ton, because lately, in any spare time I can grab, I’m deep in the throes of fairytale land. However, I’m still trying to doodle or write by hand at least once a day and out of one of those little blank paper and pen sessions came an idea to re-write

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Queries: An Update

Just a quick update, for those of you who might be waiting on pins and needles, wondering what’s become of all the queries I sent for my middle grade novel, The Black Widow Project. I’ve had a few requests for more chapters and I’ve also had two requests for the full, which is exciting! So I’m

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Daily Doodle

Sometimes my brain is weird, and this is the sort of thing that comes out. This poor little unicorn looks afraid. Possibly angry. He’s probably delicious, that’s why.

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The Lost Character

The book I’m working on right now, while my other books are being queried or languishing in peaceful naps on my laptop, is a retelling of the sleeping beauty story. I know, I know, you might think that story has been done to death. Well, guess what: I don’t! Because I had an idea to retell the story

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