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Only Gossip Prospers Blog Tour
Pink Umbrella Books is excited to announce the Only Gossip Prospers blog tour, which will run December 10-20, 2019. Interested bloggers should email us at pinkumbrellabooks@gmail.com or post in the comments below. About the Book: In late 1875 Louisa May Alcott spent a winter in New York City. Her journals give a rough sketch of the people […]
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There’s nothing sheepish about Michelle Wilson’s Olive Ewe…
Maybe Mary had a little lamb, but author Michelle Wilson has Olive Ewe, a sweetly disaster-prone little muttonchop who is the star of Wilson’s new children’s book, Olive. Olive worries whether her friends and family will love her in spite of her flaws…but rest assured, both Wilson’s book and its title character are lovable indeed. […]
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The Red Pen: a Dash of Dashes
Dashes are sexy. Okay, maybe not sexy like Chris Hemsworth or a new pair of heels. But among punctuation marks, it’s the only one that leaves me a little breathless. Exclamation points are so obvious, semi-colons are pretentious, question marks too coy—oh, but the possibilities conveyed in that hot little horizontal pause! It’s enough to […]
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Olive Blog Tour
Pink Umbrella Books is excited to announce the Olive blog tour, which will run October 29-November 8, 2019. Interested bloggers should email us at pinkumbrellabooks@gmail.com or post in the comments below. About the Book: Meet Olive. She’s optimistic and well-intentioned . . . and a magnet for mishaps. When Olive’s day goes from bad to worse, she […]
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Oiseau: The Magical Bird Blog Tour
Pink Umbrella Books is excited to announce the Oiseau: The Magical Bird blog tour, which will run October 8-15, 2019. Interested bloggers should email us at pinkumbrellabooks@gmail.com or post in the comments below. About the Book: Oiseau isn’t just an ordinary bird: he’s magical! When Miss Robinson’s class has trouble transitioning from one subject to another, Oiseau […]
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New children’s book brings smiles
There’s a problem in Miss Robinson’s classroom. Because of all the noise and confusion in her room, she can’t teach her lessons—that is, until her old friend Oiseau (pronounced wah-zō) arrives. Oiseau, which means “bird” in French, is a charming little avian helper in author Debbie Wosnik’s new children’s book, Oiseau. And not only does […]
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The Red Pen: Word crimes
You’re a writer, which means you’ve probably achieved a certain level of grammatical smugness—enough to muster a Dowager Countess of Grantham-worthy eyeroll at a misused their/there/they’re in a sign, or at a colleague saying supposably instead of supposedly, at any rate. But there are some words that have even the most precise of us googling. […]
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Adrienne Quintana’s HIGH SIERRA takes readers into the woods
The place was a total dive. Dirty log walls and rusting metal furniture gave off a homeless shelter vibe—nothing like the fat camp my mom sent me to last summer. I mean, that place looked and felt expensive. And the chunky, bald guy across the desk from me was no fitness instructor. Crooked, black framed […]
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The Red Pen: Comma Chameleon
Perhaps no single keystroke has incited such violence of emotion as the Oxford comma. Also called the serial comma, it’s more or less grammatically optional in America—but don’t let our noncommittal adoption of the mark fool you. The Oxford comma has become something of a pop culture icon. It appears on t-shirts, drinking glasses, infant […]
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The Red Pen: Deep Thoughts Edition
Inner speech, interior monologue, musings—a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, and there are plenty of names to describe the process of getting inside your character’s head. But what do you do once you’re there?—and how can you bring your reader with you? Read on for thoughts on…well, thoughts. First, let’s lay […]
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