writing from the second story

Maps

August 27th 2008

 While you, dear readers, are hungrily reading The Travelers’ Market, I’m already with Sarah, Timothy and Jessica on their next adventure and learning about maps—ancient maps, fantasy maps, map ciphers, maps with dragons and sailing ships. Yes, maps figure heavily in the, yet to be named, third book of the trilogy. And it means I get [...]

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Review from Mythic Writers Blog

August 7th 2008

“I am definitely putting McQuerry’s books on this list. I got a chance to look through her newest, Traveler’s Market, before the workshop. It has gorgeous illustrations, and the few paragraphs I read as I flipped through were engaging and well done. I’m really looking forward to reading this, right after I read the first [...]

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Snafu and The Travelers’ Market

August 4th 2008

Such a good word. Okay, I never knew it was an acronym unitl I just checked out Wikipedia. Did everyone else know that already? It’s just is one of those words that is fun to say when everything else around you is not fun at all, when situations have gone awry, off kilter, catiwampus and generally deflated like [...]

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Willamette Writers Conference

August 4th 2008

with my agent, Sandra Bishop. See the glazed look in my eyes? I gave two presentations, a book signing and six critiques in two days, and loved every minute of it–really! Okay, I don’t love the roar of the planes at PDX starting at 6 AM, but other than that… There’s something about the Willamette Conference [...]

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