Luann Tennant Coyne
Unlocking the Magic of Reading . . .
Writing for children and adults, from fantasy to reflections on our lives together.
The Shadow from the North trilogy is a fantasy adventure about a girl who rescues herself.
The Twice and Always Princess is a fairy tale written to give hope to abused children and show them a path to healing.
On Motherhood (2025) and other thoughts on being a parent, a mother and a grandparent in today’s world.
A little bit of magic goes a long way to relieve the long hours and hard work of being a working parent.
Once in a while, when my girls were young, I would stop the car at a park on the way to the sitter’s house in the morning, and we would spend twenty minutes on the slides and swings. We would have the park to ourselves, first thing on a weekday morning. And I got a little extra play time with my girls… The best present in the world for me.
Once I asked my mother what it was like to live through really hard times, like Pearl Harbor and WWII. Mom was a young woman in nursing school when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Mom told me that they gathered around, listening to radios… She said it was hard to believe it had happened, that it didn’t seem real.
