Mere Ink
Ann Lloyd, Ph.D.Ann Lloyd, Ph.D.
Cedarview Drive
Blacksburg, VA
Ann
Books
Books:
Just 'Til I Finish This Chapter...
Tips, Quotes, and Practical Advice for Nurturing Young Readers
"A delightfully fun and easy way to set up your kids for a lifetime love of reading. Her relaxed style makes it easy to implement the tips - even in today's busy society."
- Mahoning Valley ParentA collection of tips, quotes and practical advice on reading. The book contains 35 tips for parents to help teach, motivate, and foster reading in their children. Each fully explained tip begins with a selection of relevant quotes and is followed by step by step instructions for parents.
Sample Tip: See Reviews
Tips and Tricks
for Homeschooling Survival
Because home-schooling can be a lot like pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
We all have them, the days when nothing goes right. You wake up late, the kids are cranky, the dishwasher breaks, and the dog throws up on the rug. If you're tired of trying to do it all, this book is for you. Tips & Tricks for Homeschooling Survival is a collection of tips, quotes, and practical advice to make homeschooling a little easier.Successful Self-Publishing
from Manuscript to Market
So you've written the great American novel. Now what?
The day my first book arrived from the printer, I received the following phone call from my printer:
"Ann, this is Cathy. We need to know if there will be a forklift available at the loading dock when your books are delivered."
Suddenly, the true magnitude of the task I had undertaken became clear. What was I thinking? Why had I ordered so many books? Self-publishing today can be anything you make it. The options available are more numerous than ever before.Successful Self-Publishing is a comprehensive guide which addresses both the personal and professional aspects of becoming a published author. Everything you need to know to understand the publishing industry, recognize your personal goals, produce a great book, establish your company, generate sales, and avoid costly mistakes.
Life Learning
Lessons from the Educational Frontier
A passionate collection of essays from the leading edge of educational theory and practice demonstrates how families around the world are embracing the philosophy of radical unschooling. Life Learning is the story of how children can personalize and control their own learning . . . and what adults can do (and stop doing) to help them.Available through: http://www.lifelearningmagazine.com/
Coming Soon:
Dollhouse to My House:
The Single Female Homebuyer
"I have to take care of it. I have to pay for it. I’m committed to it for a long time. I can’t get away from it easily. Yep…it’s my husband.” (Female Participant)
" Do I pay a therapist to talk to, or do I work on my house? And so I threw myself into my house. It helped me get through a very rough time in my life” (Female Participant)
Little girls love dollhouses. In fact, an Internet search for the term yields 1,350,000 hits; pages and pages of websites each with its own unique product for sale. Thus perhaps it should come as no surprise that, according to the State of the Nation's Housing (Harvard, 2005), more than one in five homebuyers is a single woman and twice as many unmarried women as unmarried men are buying homes.
Because married couples have historically dominated the housing market, little research has focused on the unique psychological, social, and behavioral needs of the single female buyer.
This book offers new insights into the psychology of housing and human environments as it explores the current phenomena of never-married women in their 30s and 40s purchasing homes without husbands or partners.
Book Signing: Books-A-Million, Blacksburg, VA
The Myta Bird Mystery
A little book with a big message. Written in tribute to Marie Lloyd (1891-1992)
Toby Mackie wanted to go to Nantucket. She was going to Wisconsin. It’s not fair thought Toby, even Martha Simms, the strangest girl in the class, is going to Nantucket. But Toby knew better than to argue with her father when it came to family traditions. And in Toby’s family, the tradition of spending the summer following your 12th birthday on the Cobi Indian Reservation was practically written in stone.
The Myta Bird Mystery is the heartwarming story of a young girl's journey to understand and accept her Native American heritage. As Toby and her grandmother set out to find the mysterious myta bird feather, they create a summer Toby will never forget.
Ann Lloyd, Ph.D.
Cedarview Drive
Blacksburg, VA
Ann
