It's hard to believe that we are about to start 2023. Our blog is going on 12 years! New beginnings make us think and reevaluate. We love all the people we have connected with through our blog and visiting blogs is always fun. There will be some changes here, but some things will remain the same.
As we pause and reflect, we want to take the time to wish all of you a Happy New Year! May the year ahead be filled with all the things that make you happy. 😀🎊
Stories stir our spirits and ignite our bones, so step into a mystery this season! Books are delicious to a bookworm, and if you have a hungry one that you love, it's important to keep them well fed. If your bookworm happens to love a good mystery, give them a bite of the Begonia House. The suspense will fill them to the brim. 👀
Signed books make magical gifts! ✨
Jess and Stephanie will be at Barnes and Noble in Waterbury, CT signing copies of The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow and Fairday Morrow and the Talking Library on Saturday 12/3 at 2pm. Grab a signed book bundle and cozy up with a good mystery this season.
The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow (Book 1) Fairday Morrow and the Talking Library (Book 2) Middle grade mystery books for ages 8 and up Eleven year old Fairday Morrow moves from Manhattan to a small town in Connecticut where her parents have bought a big, spooky, crumbling Victorian manor called the Begonia House. They want to turn it into a bed and breakfast, but after Fairday moves in strange occurrences start happening, and she finds out that an unsolved mystery had taken place in her new home. Fairday and her friends in the Detective Mystery Squad, Lizzy and Marcus, are on the case. The three sleuths try to sort out what happened in the Begonia House.
The first mystery wraps up, but Fairday soon finds out that her house is hiding many more secrets. After she receives a worrisome note from a mysterious librarian warning that a bookworm is eating words in stories, the DMS opens the next investigation. They stumble through a magical portal that transports them to the Talking Library, where books come alive and story magic abounds. Find out what happens when Fairday and her friends uncover fantastical clues and put the pieces of this intriguing puzzle together.
Fear not the unexpected. Truth lies betwixt the lines.
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Hello, Riddlers! Jess here. I've been plotting ideas, making connections for story crafting, and this new piece presented itself. A creative play with art and words, inspired by the ineffable space where we allow our stories to unfold.
Fear not the unexpected. Truth lies betwixt the lines.
DISASTERPIECE
The world had gone mad with stories, so I examined my own. Hum drum of days, in and out. Like breathing. Dew shimmies on leaves; chomping caterpillars hungry for greens. Bees buzz around while I paint my heart, watching colors cover nothing— no thing is the stickiest glue. Truth lies betwixt the lines, and in between those squiggly lines there is emptiness— that’s the truth; the strong force binding story flavor. So subtle, yet powerful. The liminal essence of creation scattered amongst the stars in a vast sea of space. History and Herstory forever smashing together in little bursts of light— lingering like ghosts in the dark. Memories swim asunder in endless pools of thought. A disasterpiece transformed into a masterpiece simply by the love of hearing the other— or vice versa.
The Riddle of the Stone
There was once a stone that knew who it was.
The stone remembered the story.
The story had a beginning, middle and end@beginning, middle, and end@beginning, middle, and end@...
The beginning was new.
The middle unwound.
And the end was known.
Who is the stone?
Only you know the answer to this riddle. 😀
