God has been good to me. I am Author/Illustrator of Flip Flap Floodle. Even mean ole Mr. Fox can't stop this little duck. Hear Flip’s Song Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Flip-Flap-Floodle-Joan-Edwards/dp/1594572852/ Barnes & Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/flip-flap-floodle?r=1 Coming in June 2015: Joan's Elder Care Guide 4RV Publishing. My Website: http://www.joanyedwards.com has devotionals, crossword/wordsearch puzzles, and skits for Children's Liturgy each Sunday of all three liturgical years. In January, 2011 Roxie's Blog put me in the Writer's Spotlight at http://wp.me/pBU4R-BG. Thank you, Roxie. On October 23, 2012 Jen Veldhuyzen featured me as a guest on her PetrePan blog: http://petrepan.blogspot.com/2012/10/author-interview-with-joan-y-edwards.html. Thank you, Jen. On November 25, 2012 Linda Martin Andersen asked me to share how I told stories to my family when I was a little girl. What a great way to celebrate 100 subscribers! I  hope you'll stop and read about my taking hot dogs to school for my sister's class:  http://lindamartinandersen.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/its-family-stories-month-meet-joan-y-edwards-an-author-who-has-been-telling-stories-since-she-was-a-child/. Thank you, Linda. On September 28, 2012 I presented a "Blogging Basics" workshop at the SCBWI-Carolinas Conference. This answered a dream of mine to present a live workshop at that conference. It was awesome. Here are titles of other workshops I taught for writers groups, Muse Writers Online Conference, or Catholic Writers Conference Online. Building Your Platform (websites, blogs). One Way to Achieve Goals, Get Rid of Problems, and/or Make the Right Decisions. Adding Positive Sounds, Words, and Beliefs to Your Subconscious Mind Where to Begin Your Story Scripting Your Biography Can Your Faith Be Seen? PubSub3rdFri 20 Ways to Correct, Trim, and Enhance Your Manuscript Believe – Submit Your Manuscript (Pub Sub) Practice Your Pitch on Me 30 Ways to Correct, Trim, and Enhance Your Manuscript How to Write a Pitch That Sells After I did the Practice Your Pitch on Me workshop for the March 2012 Catholic Writers Conference Online, they requested that I come back and do a workshop a week before the regular conference session on writing a pitch in 2013. This was because almost everyone who participated in my workshop got a "YES, I'd love to see your manuscript" when they pitched their manuscripts to the publishers during the conference.  I did a similar workshop for 2012 Muse Writers Online Conference. Writers there encouraged me to do a game similar to what I did during a chat session. Now I am forming: Pitch Corner, USA for writers to study pitches and learn how to get a pitch that sells. You'll see more about that on my website. I am in the midst of editing and revising my screenplay, "Against All Odds." My goal is to send it out in November 2012. In February 2012 I entered the Amazon contest for Young Adult Novels. I won to the second level with the Pitch for my Historical Fiction book, Immigrant Heart. Even though, it did not go to the next level of competition, it was heart-warming to get that far. I plan to revise it and submit it in December. I will be a presenter of 3 workshops at the SCWW Conference October 24-26, 2014. Thanks for visiting my Never Give Up blog. Believe in Yourself with Unwavering Faith Joan Y. Edwards