👇🏼SCROLL DOWN TO SEE THE LOVELY ARTWORK FROM LAST MONTH'S RAINY-DAY ACTIVITY PACKET! THANKS TO ALL OF YOU!You can send your artwork any time, and I'll include it in the next newsletter. No deadlines for artwork! 😀 Send to CircleCBooks@gmail.com💖...

I spent some time awhile ago thinking up activities that your kids might enjoy on cold, dark, January afternoons after they have finished up their school for the day but it's too wet and cold to go outdoors. Or maybe for a Saturday morning and they'r...

❄️ HAPPY NEW YEAR & WELCOME TO 2026We're going to start the new year off with this very unusual mystery object. The only hint I'll give you is . . . Andi Carter or Jem Coulter would probably never see it. Guessing game runs Tuesday, January 6 - T...

I thought it would be super fun to try my hand at creating new paper dolls witih an older Andi (Circle C Adventures age), and it has been the most fun I've had in a long time (yes, I should be working on book 2 of the new Jenny series, but I got very...

Along with this month's What Am I, I decided to put up a few super-good Christmas bargains. My website "shop" only offers Instant Downloads these days, since my site makeover. But . . . when I was packing for Texas, I found a few book sets, plus I fo...

🌲🌲🌲CONGRATULATIONS TO THESE WINNERS!CIRCLE C BEGINNINGS BUNDLE - AMY BAINCIRCLE C ADVENTURES BUNDLE - RENEE MIRSKYGOLDTOWN BEGINNINGS BUNDLE - KRISTIN WINDMANNGOLDTOWN ADVENTURES BUNDLE - MELODYThanks to everyone who entered the giveaways. I wish...

🎁 FOUR BOOK & GOODIE BUNDLES FROM SUSAN K. MARLOW ➕ 🎁 BONUS BUNDLE FROM KIDLIT AUTHOR PHYLLIS WHEELER Over $250 worth of giveaways!It's giveaway time, and this year I went all out. I wanted to let as many people enter to win the bundle(s) the...

It's November already! The weather here in Texas is so nice and warm. I left the mountains of north-central Washington State just in time. This is a little random, but my daughter, Kristel, and I went into the dairy goat business together. I have thr...

It's been in my mind for over a year now, but I wanted to write a new series about Andi Carter's good friend, Jenny Grant. But I just never got around to it. Well, this summer, I suddenly felt "ready to go." I wrote three chapters the beginning of Ju...

Newsletter Update and RefreshSo, I decided to combine the Circle C and Goldtown newsletters into one list. When I combined them, I was super surprised that--except for a handful of subscribers--most of you were already subscribed to both lists. Now i...