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Bear Song, Sequel to Pale as the Moon

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If you enjoyed my first novel for young readers, Pale as the Moon , you’ll want to read its sequel, Bear Song . I wrote Bear Song soon after I finished Pale as the Moon twelve years ago. It kept sitting on the back burner after my original publisher went out of business, even though my first two book were picked up by another publisher. In the meantime I wrote three non-fiction horse books, which were published by The Lyons Press. When I did finally turn back to Bear Song I queried several agents and publishers, who while they complimented my book, for various reasons decided against publishing it. Recently I attended a workshop on self-publishing and decided I had messed around long enough. I began that week the process of publishing Bear Song myself using Create Space. It turned out to be a lot of fun. I have always loved playing with designing brochures, flyers and booklets, so this new creative control over what my book would look like was very satisfying.   I did have