Teacher-Authors–Join me to launch my Indie Book

Starting tomorrow, on my writer’s blog, WordDreams, my wonderful efriends are helping me launch my latest prehistoric fiction, Badlands. Early reviews…

“Your best ever”–husby (you say he said the same thing last time? I don’t remember)

“…prehistoric man takes on nature in all her fury and survives.” –Sandra Cox

I’ll be visiting writer friend blogs April 15-26th. We’ll chat about Badlands and writing in general. Here are articles you can read in alphabetic order. The first are about the Neanderthal world and the last few writerly topics:

  1. Neanderthal Doors
  2. Neanderthal Healing Tips
  3. Neanderthal nomadic life
  4. How to research prehistory
  5. What I Learned from my Neanderthal Characters
  6. 8 Bits of Life Wisdom From My Computer
  7. 10 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me Park II

Here’s the schedule of who I’ll visit when:

April 15: Sally Cronin–Spotlight

April 16: Life of a Neanderthal Nomad–Liesbet Collaert

April 17: 8 Bits of Life Wisdom From My Computer–Chris?

April 18: 10 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me Part II–Sandra Cox

April 19: What I Learned from my Neanderthal Characters?–Liz Gauffreau

April 21: Prehistoric research–Alex Cavanaugh

April 22: Miriam Hurdle–Spotlight

April 23: Anneli Purchase–Spotlight ???? Confirm that 

April 24: Healing Tips from Neanderthals–Colleen Chesebro

April 25: Neanderthal doors–Dan Antion

April 26: Lynette d-Arty-Cross–Spotlight?

Each day, I’ll post a short introduction to the host. It’ll include a link to their blog.

Badlands by Jacqui Murray,

Book 2 in the Savage Land trilogy

Book 8 in the Man vs. Nature series

Editor: The extraordinary Anneli Purchase

Amazon Universal link  http://a-fwd.com/asin=B0DFCV5YFT

To celebrate the launch of Badlands, Book 1 in the trilogy, Endangered Species, will be

FREE on Amazon Kindle April 15-20, 2025

  If you miss the freebie, all of my prehistoric fiction is on KU which makes it free to KU readers all the time.

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Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Man vs. Nature saga, the Rowe-Delamagente thrillers, and the acclaimed Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. She is also the author/editor of over a hundred books on integrating tech into education, adjunct professor of technology in education, an Amazon Vine Voice, and a freelance journalist on tech ed topics. Look for her next prehistoric fiction, Balance of Nature, Winter 2026

Author: Jacqui
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, an Amazon Vine Voice, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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