karen Blaisdell's Page

My name is Karen, but i prefer Keke..........Yea, it's kinda dorky but i like it. I used to teach 8th grade science and math.....I did it for 8 years and loved the kids but i wasn't happy with the administration so i took a chance and opened a preschool out of my home.
As a kid i HATED writing. In high school, my English teacher gave me a D+ on a creative writing piece that i worked hard on. After that, anything that required me to write scared the heck out of me. Two and a half years ago, I had the students doing a forensic activity that required them to solve a crime. I then had them create a story that would go along with it. For some reason, i wanted to do it too. I shared it with the kids and they loved it.........I shared it with the language arts teacher and he loved it............and that was all I needed to fall in love with writing.... Now, i have five children books and two YA novels that I’m trying hard to get published.........I'm past that shell shock stage, the one where you realize the amount of MS sent to publishers a day and the amount of rejections they send back are almost the same! I'm on to the 'write, revise, edit, submit, submit, submit, submit...................and never give up!