David Wayne Books

I just signed up for my first GoodReads giveaway. It's a strange experience, like attending your first junior high dance and standing awkwardly in the corner scratching at your new sweater vest while everyone else seems to know what they're doing. I don't know what to expect but I'm just happy to be here.

It has been a long journey to get here. Worth the wait! It's been such a wonderful experience having my books published. I've even had someone send me a quote from my own book that they loved. WHAT?!?!?!? You just never know. Don't let doubt get in your way. Write! Write! Write!

The only thing 12-year-old Seth Ranney could think about during his audition for the summer children's theater play was getting a role with a few lines. Or at least enough lines to give his dad a reason to visit him after having left a few years ago to become a big-time actor. Even though Seth wants to follow in his footsteps, his biggest acting achievement so far has been falling off the stage the previous summer. When Seth gets locked in the theater after the audition, he meets a most unexpected acting coach: a ghost named Hamlet. As a ghost, Hamlet can disappear and reappear anywhere he wants. And when a mouse becomes an accidental traveler during one of Hamlet's little "trips," Seth realizes that all it takes to have the most amazing summer ever is one magic step. But an amazing summer should be shared with friends. And Seth is more than happy to share his discovery until one of Hamet's adventures goes wrong, and Seth has to find a lost friend hundreds of year...

Fifteen-year-old artist Georgia Bennett is about to give the small town of Kingsburg a big surprise. To Georgia, the town looks less like the romantic and unique Main Streets she sees in her art books and more like a military barracks, which is not surprising given the strict leadership of its mayor, a retired Army captain. Georgia’s first attempt at inspiring a bit of art appreciation meets a disastrous end. Not that the people of Kingsburg even notice. They are much more captivated by the controversial photographs taken by the new kid in school, Henry Winters.Once Henry's photographs spread through town with the destructive power of a tornado, Georgia decides that for every ugly thing Henry does, she will counteract it with something beautiful, like a magnet, her positive to his negative. By doing this, however, she risks more than her reputation: she risks the fury of the mayor, who holds a key component to her family’s past—and future.

Hello! I've  been writing since the age of eight, mostly sketches and short stories that were acted out by the reluctant kids in his neighborhood.  spent my childhood summers performing in the children’s theater program, playing Mr. Toad , the Wizard of OZ, and the back half of a two-humped camel. Once I graduated college, I taught English, drama, and creative writing during the day and wrote novels at night (after grading all those papers!). One Magic Step was inspired by my summers running around an old theater (minus all that time-travelling stuff, but it DID seem haunted). And Welcome to Nowhere Special came to be from standing in front of a painting that somehow contained an entire story in its brush strokes. I live in the Pacific Northwest with my dog Gunner and my cat Smalls.