new children's title for Christmas

Green Leaf, The Potawatomi Boy

Lisa J Lickel, illustrated by Brenda Hendricks

About the Book:

Green Leaf’s cousins are all older

than he and don’t like to play fair. He longs for a friend his own age he can

play with, explore and fish with. When he meets a Luxembourger boy, Henri,

Green Leaf is sure they could become friends, but Henri’s words are strange to

Green Leaf. How can they play and explore together?

Green Leaf’s mother says, “Friends learn to speak one another’s words.” But

will Green Leaf learn to say his friend’s words well enough to save Henri when

he falls into danger?

Kindle - on special sale during December 1- 16, $.99

Also available in print from online retailers or from your

favorite bookseller. $5.95

Ten years in the making, The First Children of Farmington

series of early reader books has finally reached book sellers. I spent two

years researching and writing this series. Several years after I worked with

other community historians to collect and record our early pioneer history, I

realized that we had quite a diverse ethnicity to Farmington, Wisconsin.

Although these stories are based on real people and real events, they are

representative of issues and struggles and joys families face every day

everywhere.  

The Potawatomi Boy is a character with a running thread

through all the books. When I first started out with the project I was taking

classes from the Christian Writers Guild. I set out to put together a series of

picture books and connected with a couple of different artists. I wrote the

text, but learned over several years that it’s harder to get the attention of a

publisher for children’s books than it is for adult books. I’d never considered

self-publishing, but through connections with my current illustrator and

publishing partner, Brenda Hendricks, and others at the John 316 Marketing

Network, learned a lot about not only self-publishing options, but how to

publish well. The second book in the series, The German Girl, is now available, as

well, about a curious young girl who becomes lost while searching for the

family cow, and the third book, The Saxon Boy, about a young boy who must learn

to accept a stepfather, may be out by Christmas. I was quite surprised and

pleased to have won a prestigious Jade Ring award for the Saxon Boy from the

Wisconsin Writers Association. The other three stories, The Yankee Boy, The

Irish Girl

and The French Girl, are planned for release in 2014.

The books include references, glossaries, and special

illustrations and a picture search. They are suitable for early to middle

grades, ages 7-9 or so.

Also

at Barnes

and Noble

Booksamillion

From December 1 through

December 16, the John 3:16 Marketing Network is hosting a Christmas Book Launch

and The Potawatomi Boy is a

featured book. As part of the event, the Network is offering a $200 Amazon gift

certificate to one lucky winner. For a chance to win, go to

http://bit.ly/Christian_Books

and enter the Rafflecopter toward the bottom of the page.

About the Author:

Lisa Lickel is a Wisconsin writer who lives with her husband

in a hundred and sixty-year-old house built by a Great Lakes ship captain.

Surrounded by books and dragons, she writes inspiring fiction. Her published novels

include mystery and romance, all with a twist of grace. She has penned dozens

of feature newspaper stories, short stories, magazine articles and radio

theater. She is the editor in chief of Creative

Wisconsin

magazine. Lisa also is an avid book reviewer, a freelance editor,

a writing mentor, a hostess at Clash of the Titles.com, and enjoys blogging at

theBarnDoor.net and AuthorCulture.blogspot.com. She loves to encourage new

authors. Find more at LisaLickel.com.