http://tinamcho.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/my-books-are-out/ A Writer, Teacher, and Mother's Heart Thu, 23 May 2013 22:41:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://tinamcho.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/my-books-are-out/#comment-726 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:40:12 +0000 http://tinamcho.wordpress.com/?p=196#comment-726 How did I miss this post? I’m blown away by all that you accomplish.

]]> http://tinamcho.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/my-books-are-out/#comment-55 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:13:43 +0000 http://tinamcho.wordpress.com/?p=196#comment-55 [...] My second big project was writing for Lakeshore Learning. For teachers, Lakeshore is like the granddaddy of all educational publishers–the one teachers save their pennies for. I simply answered an ad they placed in the LA Times Career Builder for an educational writer, former teacher!! I took a small writing test and was accepted.  I hadn’t been writing very long and found myself at a meeting at their headquarters with a room full of editors, writers, and developers. Oh my goodness! The developer explained the project to me, and I was sent home with an assignment to write 16 guided readers for 1st -2nd graders. Having on hand the Children’s Writer’s Word Book, by Alijandra Mogilner and Phonics from A to Z: A Practical Guide by Wiley Blevins proved very useful. The books I wrote were phonics-based. I even got to write illustration directions for each page, something picture book writers are told not to do. The only negative thing about these books is that the publisher changes the author’s name. So my pen name for these is Martin Vega. Go figure. They came out Feb. 2011. You can see them here. [...]

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