Comments on: A milestone

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:20:51 +0000

I’m planning on taking the writing series up through high school…but unfortunately don’t have a target date for you.

By: Karin

Karin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:09:25 +0000

I ought to be happy for you, since we really like your history books and your FLL book, not to mention WTM. However, I find myself wishing you would have written one for high school students who resist expository writing. Particuarly since my rising highschooler only likes history when you write it. Any chance you’ll be doing one of those?

By: TM

TM — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:41:24 +0000

I’m celebrating with you by lifting up my glass of Diet Coke & smiling. Mother of JM

By: Colleen in NS

Colleen in NS — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:16:19 +0000

(notice I’m not asking “when will it be done” – but nervously asking…) Will you be working concurrently on the rest of your writing series, too, along with the history series? Or does that get put off until the history is done?

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:28:30 +0000

Congratulations! We are putting together next year’s curriculum, and my husband noted that it’s mostly made up of Peace Hill Press curricula, and I said, “That’s because it works.” My son loves First Language Lessons and ever since we started on Story of the World, he has declared history his ‘favorite subject in the whole world.”

By: Laurie

Laurie — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:45:17 +0000

Congratulations! And now maybe you’ll have time to take some puppy pictures…pretty please? I’d love to see your furry footwarmers.

By: Zuca

Zuca — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:19:25 +0000

Congratulations!

If you have the time to comment, I’m extremely interested in what you mentioned about teaching writing basics to college students. You obviously don’t have the time to go through a full writing program with them, so how do you condense and utilize your ideas on writing to get them up to speed and still teach the class they’re getting a grade for?

Enjoy your down time =)

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:35:34 +0000

Oh, don’t worry, no walking away here! In fact, I’ve already been working on the third book. But this time I’m not making any promises ahead of time about when I’ll be finished. With this last book, I felt like I was always behind and running to catch up. I’m not sure that I wrote any faster or slower than if that pressure hadn’t been there–I just know that it made the writing NO FUN AT ALL.

So as to when they might be ready…can I keep you posted?

By: Yabusame

Yabusame — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:48:36 +0000

Congratulations, but, ahem, with The History of the Medieval World released next year, when do we expect the next two volumes (History of the Early Modern World & History of the Modern World)?

You can’t just put that pen down and walk away… you’ve got a dedicated history reader here…

By: SFKC

SFKC — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:00:57 +0000

Hey there,

I saw a Story of the World cover image tonight during the NewsHour’s piece on “paperless prose”. Brief, but national!

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/newshour_index.html

Farewell panicked drumbeats — congratulations!