Three Times A Charm with Lia London
Welcome to Three Times A Charm. I love meeting new authors, illustrators, bloggers, agents, editors or promoters from the children’s publishing industry and sharing their careers with my readers. Today’s guest is author, Lia London. Welcome to Strands of Thought, Lia. Tell us a little about you, please. In grade school, I started writing skits for school assemblies, and quickly gained a reputation for writing on-demand scripts. By my freshman year in college, I was commissioned to write a musical for Children’s Educational Theatre in Salem, Oregon. I kept writing for others for 20 more years and grew up to be an English teacher. Then I finally wrote a novel for myself. While starting a blog to advertise it, I realized I’d rather keep writing stories—but I had too many ideas and not enough time if I was going to keep the blog posts coming. So I decided to write stories with my readers and created Collaborative Fiction. The last two (and mos...