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

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A lot of teacher-authors read both my Ask a Tech Teacher education blog and my writer’s blog, WordDreams. In this monthly column, I share a popular post from the past month:

My last trilogy–Savage Land–dealt with a time 75,000 years ago when Neanderthals survived a natural disaster that should have wiped them off the planet. They found safe places around the planet, one of which was Gibraltar where Savage Land concentrates.

My next trilogy–In the Shadow of Giants–addresses their disappearance, when they became so few in number they could no longer sustain themselves as a species. Each book will deal with one way they attempted to cope with that inevitable end, when they were forced to find their future in the shadow of much more powerful human species.

Draft titles:

Book 1–Land of the Ancestors

Book 2–The Shaman

Book 3–Promises Kept

Last month, here’s what I accomplished:

Drafted Book 2

That’s it. It’s about 60,000 words, but very (very) rough, in Excel. Here’s part of what it looks like: I still haven’t decided on firm book titles, an ending for Book 2, or a wrap-up for the trilogy.

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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, blog webmaster, an Amazon Vine Voice, and a freelance journalist on tech ed topics. Look for her next prehistoric fiction, In the Shadow of Giants, Summer 2027

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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.