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Welcome!

  

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.   

 

Please pardon the mess on my site the next few weeks. I’m remodeling. It’s long over due. (and taking longer than I expected since I’m such a procrastinator). I’m closing a couple of my blogs because I simply don’t have time to post on them. They won’t disappear, however, for I’ll add them to this site. Watch for changes, new links to fabulous places, more reviews, whatever comes to mind. Also, watch for a possible contest when the remodeling is complete, whenever that occurs. Thanks to all my dear friends for stopping by and leaving comments. You can still do that. Have a wonderful week.  

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LATEST NEWS!

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 Frankie’s Perfect Home finished 5th in the Preditors and Editors Readers Poll Awards, Children’s Division. A huge thank you to everyone that voted for Frankie. You rock.

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Copies of Tumbleweed Christmas are available at the publisher, 4 RV Publishing and at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Or ask your favorite bookstore to order a copy for each of your young readers. Who says you can’t read Christmas stories during the winter?  

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If you’d like to listen to the Blog Talk Radio Interview with Renee Hand come on over to Beverly’s Blog and click on the link. Have a good laugh. Do I really sound like that? I didn’t know how to put it on this site. I’m computer challenged.

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My forthcoming young adult contemporary novel, LIFE ON HOLD, now has a gorgeous cover. I’m happy to share  with you. Aidana WillowRaven did the lovely artwork. She also did Just Breeze.  The publisher is 4RV Publishing LLC. Look for the novel in early 2012.

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Frankie’s Perfect Home, Guardian Angel Publishing, is now up at Amazon.  Christmas isn’t too far off. Books make great stocking stuffers. Start shopping early. Buy copies for all your little ones. Here’s the link: 

 Alexander Morris is the fabulous illustrator.

Also, I signed a contract with GAP for Weird Noises in the Night, my picture book mystery.

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2011 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS

Caves, Cannons, and Crinolines has been named
a Finalist in the Novella category of the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book
Awards. The 2011 Winners and Finalsists are now Online at
the site Indie Book Awards

If any of you have paperback copies, let me know and I’ll be happy to send you a sticker showing Caves is a Finalist for your book. I’m putting them on the copies I have and they look so neat. I also have book plates I’ll sign and send to you.

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I’m happy to announce that my YA Historical Fiction, Caves, Cannons, and
Crinolines, is also a finalist in the Dan Poynter’s Global eBook Awards.

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My YA mystery, Secrets I Have Kept, is now available on Kindle at Amazon, Germany, and Amazon.fr/Kindle in the UK. How cool is that? The book is still in English, but you can order it for your Kindle from Amazon.de. Click here. Secrets is also available at  Amazon in Kindle and trade paperback. See more about Secrets I Have Kept in My Books and in Excerpts.

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New video for Caves, Cannons, and Crinolines on the Video page. Enjoy.

 

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Caves, Cannons, and Crinolines finished fourth in the Preditors & Editors Readers Poll. Thanks to all my friends who voted for Caves. You’re the best. Lizzie and Nat send their thank you’s too.

 

 

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More good news:

 

Just Breeze my novel for middle grade and tween readers, is now availabe on the Kindle at Amazon. Breeze is also a Nook Book at Barnes and Noble.

 

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Caves, Cannons and Crinoline is  available at Barnes & Noble  and also at Amazon in paperback or Kindle. 

It also can be ordered from the publisher, Twilight Times Books . It’s a Nook Book too.

 

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.

 

 

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 My Books (for more go to the Books Page on the right side. Thanks.)

     

  

 

 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.

 

  Eighth grade starts out the same as every other year for Breeze Brannigan. She’s still the tallest student, boy or girl, in her class, wears shoes that would fit an elephant, and her smile reveals dazzling   braces that blind everyone within ten feet. Then she meets Cam, the new boy in school who speaks with an accent and must be from another planet, for none of the earthling boys she knows are so polite. He also has a secret, a secret that could mean life or death for Cam and his mother and that Breeze must help him keep.   

 

 

 

 

 

Forthcoming books:Scattered to the Winds, a middle-grade historical fiction about the Orphan Trains, based loosely on my mother’s life, by Twilight Times Books. I have upsetting news about one of my stories. The publisher that was going to publish Kate, Little Angel Sometimes is going out of business. I’ve been waiting since 2006 for this story, now I don’t know what to do with it. I am so disappointed. Also, my MG I Live in a Doghouse will not be published either, until I find a new home for it. In the midst of all the joy there are heartbreaks too. So goes the publishing world. Wish me luck in finding new houses for my children.

 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?

How I Wrote My First Book

I have a new book to tell you about. Twilight Times Books has just released How I Wrote My First Book in an ARC PDF. In this anthology, twenty authors tell about their first books. Well of course, since that’s the title. Whether you’re beginning to write or have been writing for years, or are somewhere in between, I think you’ll enjoy reading how these authors, including yours truly, made the sometimes frustrating, sometimes exciting, always adventuresome journey to finishing their first book. For more info. check it out at Twilight Times Books. The trade paperback and Kindle edition are now available. The Kindle version is free. Yes, you heard me right — free.