Tag: Carol Newman Cronin

Why it Took 18 Years to Write Game of Sails
A book from my past took over my present, and now it will live on in the future. Read More …

Ideas are the Easy Part: Teaching with Cape Cod Surprise
Yesterday I visited the Bourne Middle School, writing Oliver-based stories in cooperation with about 230 fifth graders—who fortunately were divided across five forty minute periods, and well-supervised by their teachers. First the kids chose a starting and ending point for Read More …

The Shape of a Story
Several years ago, I wrote a story called “Reading the Shape of the Wind.” In it I described the different ways breeze fills across the water, as well as the best strategies for winning races in each condition. Recently, it’s Read More …

Presenting Game of Sails on Paper
You heard it here first: Game of Sails: an Olympic Love Story will soon be available in paperback. Read More …

Ebook Lending
The Good, the Bad, and the Not Quite There Read More …

Balancing Between The Fulcrum Files and Real Life
I both love and hate getting completely lost in a book. Read More …

Story Parenting
Am I Raising my Characters, or are they Raising ME? Read More …
Where Work Meets Play: Miami, Florida
Greetings from sunny south Florida, where I’ve escaped for a week of warm weather and a spot of fun that might (or might not) be eventually justified as research. Read More …

Writing: It’s Not a Competition
Back in 2006, I attended the New York Writer’s Group Pitch and Shop. Read More …

Ebook Reformatting: Game of Sails, Take Two
Typos are easy to correct with ebooks. Read More …