My writing career has included newspaper reporting, greeting cards, humor writing, content marketing, and fiction. My first novel, A Plot for Pridemore, won the 2012 Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction and was published in the spring of 2014.
I live in Kansas City with my wife, son and Australian Shepherd. Oh, I also sing in a band of former newspaper reporters called NewsHole.
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–Stephen
Thru-hiking. Truck-driving. Miles.
I have people to kill, lives to ruin, plagues to bring, and worlds to destroy. I am not the Angel of Death. I'm a fiction writer.
I am a mother of five active, sometimes aggravating children that drive me crazy, provide me with lots of entertainment and remind me constantly about the value of love and family. I am married to my best friend. He makes me laugh every day (usually at myself). I love to eat, run, write, read and then eat again, run again…you get it. I am a children's author, having published four books with MeeGenuis (The Halloween Costume, When Santa Was Small, The Baseball Game, and The Great Adventure Brothers). I have had several pieces of writing published on Adoptive Families, Adoption Today, Brain Child, Scary Mommy, and Ten To Twenty Parenting. I am also a child psychologist, however I honestly think that I may have learned more from my parents and my children than I ever did in any book I read in graduate school. This blog is a place where I can gather my thoughts and my stories and share them with others. My writing is usually about kids and trying to see the world through their eyes, a few about parenting, adoption (one of my children is adopted) and some other random thoughts thrown in… I hope you enjoy them! So grab a cup of coffee, or a glass of wine, depending on what time of day it is (or what kind of day it is) and take a few minutes to sit back, relax and read. Please add your comments or opinions, I know you must have something to say, and I would love to hear it. Thanks for stopping by. Anne Cavanaugh-Sawan
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Hi Stephen, I nominated you for the 2016 Liebster award. Visit my blog, http://www.GratefulandAuthentic.com, for the details. I hope you will accept. 🙂 Kara
That is so cool! Thank you, Kara. I will answer your questions and post this promptly!