Teacher-Authors: What’s Happening on my Writer’s Blog


A lot of teacher-authors read my WordDreams blog. In this monthly column, I share the most popular post from the past month on my teacher education blog, Ask a Tech Teacher. Today, it’s my Book Launch for my latest historical fiction, Natural Selection. History teachers: If you teach about our ancestors’ roots, this is for you!

I will visit blogs through May 2023 to chat about my newest prehistoric fiction, Natural Selection, and writing in general. Here are articles you can read:

  1. A [Prehistoric] Day with Lucy 
  2. Could an almost-blind person get around feral Africa?
  3. Did wanderlust drive man throughout the planet? Science thinks so. (Liesbet)
  4. Early Man Can Talk. Change my Mind.
  5. Early Man Could Run Down His Prey. Change my Mind.
  6. Why Early Man didn’t Use Proper Nouns.
  7. How Did Early Man Count?
  8. How did Early Man Find His Way Around
  9. How Did Early Man Tell Time?
  10. How Smart was Lucy 2 mya
  11. Prehistoric fiction is boring. Change my mind.
  12. Why did Early Man Squat, not Sit?
  13. Was Early Man Spiritual
  14. What Did Early Man Eat?
  15. What I learned from Lucy
  16. 10 Characteristics of Great Writing 
  17. 10 Things you probably don’t know about me (Marcia Meara)
  18. 13 Writing Tips and 10 Criticisms I’ve Gotten from Twitter
  19. 60+ Characteristics That Make Your Character Memorable
  20. 5 Excuses Why Writers Don’t Write and 9 Ways to Overcome Them
  21. Why Follow Genre Rules (OC Writing)

Title and author: Natural Selection by Jacqui Murray, Book 3 in the Dawn of Humanity trilogy

Editor: The extraordinary Anneli Purchase

Available print or digital) at:  Amazon Universal link  http://a-fwd.com/asin=B0B9KPM5BW 

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Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular prehistoric fiction saga, Man vs. Nature which explores seminal events in man’s evolution one trilogy at a time. She is also the author of the Rowe-Delamagente thrillers and Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. Her non-fiction includes over a hundred books on integrating tech into education, reviews as an Amazon Vine Voice,  a columnist for NEA Today, and a freelance journalist on tech ed topics. Look for her next prehistoric fiction, Savage Land, Winter 2024.

Author: Jacqui
Welcome to my virtual classroom. I've been a tech teacher for 15 years, but modern technology offers more to get my ideas across to students than at any time in my career. Drop in to my class wikis, classroom blog, our internet start pages. I'll answer your questions about how to teach tech, what to teach when, where the best virtual sites are. Need more--let's chat about issues of importance in tech ed. Want to see what I'm doing today? Click the gravatar and select the grade.

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