Thank you for visiting my Web site. I’m Beverly Stowe McClure, reader and writer. In these pages you can read about my books, what’s happening in my world and yours, find fun links and cool advice about writing. My site is constantly under construction, so come back often. Stay for a while and let’s talk about books and writing and pets and anything else that grabs your fancy. Leave comments or questions and I’ll get back to you. You can also email me at Beverlysmcclure (at) aol . com. (without the spaces, of course.) 

 

Enjoy your stay.

God bless.  

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Check out my new post, WIP, where I’ll keep track of my current Works-in-Progress. I’ll try to update once a week. If you have questions, I’m glad to answer them. Just leave a comment.

 

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Caves, Cannons and Crinoline is  available at Barnes & Noble  and also now at Amazon. 

Is also available at the publisher, Twilight Times Books .

 

The story of Elizabeth (Lizzie) Stamford and her family’s daily struggle to survive a changing way of life during the American Civil War. This is a story of fear, courage, and understanding that people, no matter where they live, have the same needs: love, peace and security.

Lizzie’s blog is under construction. When you have a chance stop by and say hello. She loves visitors.

 

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I’ve updated my APPEARANCES page. Check it out to see where I’ll be the next few months.

 

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I’ve added a Video page, with Rebel’s video by Blazing Trailers. Isn’t it awesome? Enjoy. 

 

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 My Books

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just Breeze

Just Breeze is available from 4 RV Publishing at the publisher’s site. Pick up copies for all your friends. And for yourself, too. Breeze is also at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Breeze can be purchased from Powell’s Books too. 

 

 

Breeze has her own blog.   

 

 

  

 

 

 A ghost that doesn’t want to be a ghost. 

  

A girl who wants to forget her ex-boyfriend with the lying lips.

 

A 100-year-old neighbor who talks in riddles.

 

And a handsome sax player who changes everything.

 

 

I listened to the Blog Talk Radio Show after it went off the air. Do I really sound like that? Here’s the link: Robin Falls Kids if you’re curious.  

 

Rebel is now a movie star. Yep, you can watch her video at Blazing Trailers. She also would love for you to visit her blog and read her diary. I am not responsible for her opinions. She is a teenager after all and writes what she thinks. (I love you teens.) Rebel in Blue Jeans is available at Amazon and can be ordered from Barnes and Nobel. Or you can order the book from Twilight Times Books.

Learn more about Rebel at her diary.

 

 

 One rainy spring night, Jennifer Barret’s father, Sam, a molecular biologist at Orion Laboratories, is kidnapped. Armed with nothing more than her own courage, a phone number on a candy wrapper, and her loyal Australian cattle dog, Chopin, she begins a desperate attempt to rescue him and to discover the reason for his abduction.

Secrets is now available in Kindle. Wahoo! Check it out at Amazon. You can also buy the paperback edition, if you prefer. This is my first Kindle book.

 

 

 

The Chicken Soup for the Soul Books are so neat. I’m fortunate enough to have a story in this one. The title is Traveler, about a little stray that adopted us and our son.

 

Join me at  Twitter and  Good Reads.

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I’ve signed contracts for three new books. Frankie’s Perfect Home is a picture book, Guardian Angel Publishing. Scattered to the Winds is my middle-grade historical fiction about the Orphan Trains, based loosely on my mother’s life, by Twilight Times Books. And 4 RV Publishing has bought my YA contemporary, Life on Hold. I also have a middle grade story, I Live in a Doghouse, under contract with Twilight Times and a chapter book, Kate, Little Angel Sometimes, with Blooming Tree Press.

 Me? A Writer? 

If anyone had told me I’d be a writer someday, I’d have thought they were crazy. When I was a child I hated to read. School book reports were a nightmare. Even though my eighth-grade teacher sent my poem “Stars” to a high school anthology and it was published, I hated to write. Nevertheless, I attended Midwestern University and became a teacher. Imagien that! I read to my students; I read to my three sons and discovered Dr. Seuss. Who can resist his adorable stories?

 

Now, I read constantly. I also write fiction and nonfiction for children and teens and try to add humor to my stories even though they sometimes deal with serious subjects.

 

Who would have thought it?