How to write Spooky Stories, writing prompts and more on the CABIN TALES podcast...

Do you have a budding young writer at home? With COVID upon us again this fall, parents, teachers, and children may be looking for engaging, quality online listening. This week I'm honoured to be a guest author on the CABIN TALES podcast, a smart podcast for writerly children, produced by author Catherine Austen. 

Episode 3 is "Spooky Stories Are All Around Us," and offers writing prompts, ideas, writing tips and a spooky story for young authors. You'll find writing truths from fellow authors Amelinda Berube, Kari-Lynn Winters and me, too.

Here's a clip of me talking about using a phobia (long car trips) to fuel a story, in this case Myles and the Monster Outside: Philippa Dowding Clip

And how some of my ideas come from dreams, particularly OCULUM and The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden: Cabin Tales clip 2

Here's the link to the full episode, beware the terrifying chipmunk: SPOOKY STORIES

Here's a later post in which I talk more about writing: Cabin Tales on Tormenting  Your Characters in Children's Books