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Dear Alison, I do love book recommendations. Sometimes my #TBR pile resembles the leaning tower of Pisa. If I discover that a book towards the bottom of pile is a MUST read such as PAX, I pretend I'm playing Jenga and yank that book out. Normally, I manage to win the teetering game. Other times, I lose and need to re-stack.  This past month, I've been eyeball deep in writing Book Two of the Starr Fall series , Starr Lost . Happily, I submitted Book Two last Friday, and now I'm catching up on all the work I've neglected including my TB-Reviewed pile. My TB-Reviewed pile closely resembles my #TBR pile.  Exhibit 1:  Yep, it ain't pretty. Well, the books are certainly pretty, but the size of the pile is unsightly. You see Alison, as an author, I've come to realize just how important book reviews are. The more reviews a book receives, the more likely search engines, including the all-powerful Amazon, will bring that book to the top of their lists rather t...

Here's the interview I posted on the http:// Easternpennpoints.wordpress.com post last week. PA PROUD: Up Close and Personal with Eastern Pennsylvania Author and SCBWI Member Gayle C. Krause By Kim Briggs Hi everyone! Today, we get up close and personal with Gayle C. Krause, a long time member of SCBWI.   She writes across the genres. Her writing journey is briefly described in this interview. During the course of her writing career Ms. Krause has served as assistant editor for Underneath the Juniper Tree , a dark fantasy online magazine developed for young teens, a children’s book reviewer for Children’s Literature .com and she offers a critique service for children’s writers at First Peek Critique . ( www.gayleckrause.com ) She also runs a blog that encourages new children’s writers through contests, writing tips, book reviews and author interviews. http://thestorytellersscroll.blogspot.com . She lives in a cliff house with her husband in t...