P.S. McFadden: Children’s Writer

Though I got my degree in Writing for Children, if an idea occurs to me I don’t try to make it fit into my “speciality,” but look for the best way to express it. This is often, but not always, as a children’s story. And, when it comes to making money, if someone [...]

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Admitting that I wanted to be a writer took me twenty-five years.  I thought, at the time, that giving myself permission to be a writer was the hard part and that actually becoming a successful writer would be easy by comparison.   I knew I was a good writer.  Hadn’t my teachers always told me so?  Didn’t my kids love the bedtime [...]

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Last summer, I made costumes for the Rocky Mountain Theater for Kids.  After pulling together approximately 110 costumes in 8 weeks, I realized that it’s REALLY not what I want to do any more.  Though it was fun to find out how well I’d retained the skills I learned in undergraduate school and honed in [...]

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I’m finally ready to blog again after a couple of frantic weeks of packing and moving.  It seems appropriate that I’m getting back into gear on World Turtle Day.  Not only does this nicely tie into my publishing company, Green Turtle Press, and my middle-grade fantasy novel, Turtle Island,  (the title of which I took from one of [...]

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Being both a (semi) retired theatrical costumer and a children’s writer, I have a natural affinity for children’s theater.  Which is why, when I heard a few years ago that a very talented woman, Sara Brown of the
Shoestring Children’s Theater
in Denver, was looking for books by Colorado children’s authors to adapt into plays, I offered my early chapter book, Dragon Dilemma, as a possibility.  [...]

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