Mad Libs and Mysteries

Post by **Rowena** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 1:42 pm

Hi Everyone!

I have some really awesomely fantastic brilliantly fabulous news!!!

My little mystery story, the one I had posted here until Ranger Rick agreed to buy it last year and I took it down, will appear in its edited, shiny, FULLY ILLUSTRATED, form in THIS MONTH's issue of Ranger Rick magazine!!!!!

My story's title is "THE GHOST IN ROOM 113" and it's on pages 12-14 of the March 2009 Ranger Rick, which has a cute photo of a little orphan wildcat on the cover. If you happen to glimpse that fluffy little serval kitten while you're browsing through the magazines at your local bookstore or library this month, please pick it up and flip through the pages beneath. My story's in there!!!

After they accepted my mystery story, Ranger Rick asked me to write a few Mad Libs for them. You can find one of them here:

http://www.nwf.org/rrgreenzone/

Click where it says "Silly Story Maker," fill in the blanks, and you can read my green Mad Lib. The neat thing about this little story is it's different for every person!

I'm currently working on a few other writing projects, including another assignment for Ranger Rick which will probably be appearing in print sometime next year. I'll keep you posted!

Don't forget, it's "THE GHOST IN ROOM 113" in the MARCH 2009 issue of RANGER RICK magazine: the very first story I ever wrote that people everywhere can go to the library, or even the book store, and look up!!!

Post by **steyn** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:22 pm

Hurray! Incredibly slim chance that that magazine will be anywhere near my part of town, but hurray nonetheless for you.

Bamfsticks · Post by **Bamfsticks** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:26 pm

I think my Mom gets Ranger Rick for her class room, so I will def check it out.

neling4 · Post by **neling4** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:33 pm

Congratulations Rowena! I'll have to check that out at my library. I love a good ghost story.

Angelique · Post by **Angelique** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:08 pm

Congrats! As my kids enjoyed that story the first time they saw it, I think it wouldn't be too much for me to spring for a copy.

Post by **fourpawsonthefloor** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 5:59 pm

You're going great girl! Congrats!

Elfdame · Post by **Elfdame** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:06 pm

Congrats!! I'll email our mutual friend (from the Highlights thingy) and let her know ... she could use a boost. And will certainly draw it to the attention of my local librarian (the guy who put my Spidey collection in the display case ... obviously a nice person).

WOO - HOO !!!!

worship:dance

neling4 · Post by **neling4** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:02 pm

I read your story at the library today, Rowena. Congratulations again on being published.

Post by **Rowena** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 1:58 pm

Awesome!!!

Thank you all so very, very much! I really appreciate your support, especially when this story was just a rough draft I had posted in Not-Crawler stories. Your comments on this and all my stories really helped give me the confidence I needed to send my stuff out there and now it's started to pay off I'm going to keep writing and keep trying. Thanks again, you guys and this site are so great! Yay Nightscrawlers!!!

Elfdame · Post by **Elfdame** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:49 pm

I took one of the Juniors to the library yesterday, and we looked it up. Great work!