Author of The Waiting Room. 9th grade English teacher, tirelessly trying to save the future from their/they’re/there catastrophes (it could be ugly). Teaching writing and being a writer at the same time is harder than it sounds. New goal=be both, better.
Hello Alysha. Be the best writer you can be so they will have to notice you.
Keep your pen busy!
Alex
Gracias:) I nominated you for the Liebster, check it out: https://alyshakaye.wordpress.com/2014/05/19/liebster-blog-award-nomination/
Boom shlakaaka boom boom, problem solved.
True, thanks for the recent like.
Congratulations on your new novel – wishing you every success!
And thanks for following Ink Smeared Page 🙂
Thank you for following LitBeetle, Alysha! Keep up the awesome work of spreading the love of reading to the next generation!
Alysha Kaye, thanks for finding time to stop by and follow my blog. Congratulations on the book!
Thanks for the follow!
Thanks for following my blog.
Hi Alysha! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog and for the follow!
Just focus on your writing, I’ve done my research on Facebook. Americans have lost the their/they’re/there battle a long time ago it seems!
Thanks for stopping by my backwater hole on the web.
Good luck with your book, sounds interesting.
Hi Alysha Thank you for following me on ireadnovels.wordpress.com. Good luck with your new book. I Can not wait to read it and tell everyone about it.
Thank for the follow Alysha! It is always good to hear from a fellow Texan, especially one who is dedicated to the harrowing task of educating today’s youth! Good luck with your new book; I would love to give it a read!
Hey Alysha, thanks for following my blog! From the few posts I’ve read on your blog, you novel sounds really interesting! I would love to read it! Good luck!
Just found you and have to read your book. Love it that your from Texas too. Will follow to see more.
Jill and Junior
The Reading Dog With Opinions
Well howdy and yee-haw to that! 😉
just went through your website a bit,turned out to be really awesome, followed already, keep your writing going!
Hey thanks for the follow Alysha!! Here’s to hoping we both make it as writers 😀
*crosses fingers* 😊
Hi, Alysha. I lived on Oahu (Ewa Beach) for 3 years, too. Lovin’ your blog! You have a great sense of humor. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Very cool! I lived in Mililani and then Waipahu:) There is a chapter of my novel set in Oahu actually- you’ll have to let me know if I captured Pidgin well!
Hi! Thanks for liking my husband Phil Wohl’s books! We appreciate your interest…
Danielle
I really like your statement here. You remind me of the English teachers that once tested my metal and taught me to be strict with my own writing. I feel the lessons they taught me have been covered in dust from countless other writers following a set of rules I don’t fully understand. Nice picture, too. It was my sixth grade teacher who gave me my first potent writing compliment when I (ironically) wrote about a subject that still haunts me today.
Nice to meet you! Congratulations on your accomplishments! Wow! I look forward to more!!
Thanks for having a look at my blog! I’m looking forward to reading your book at some point, you know, after I make it around the world 😛
Love your about post– I teach third grade and we’re also big on there/their/they’re!! When will they every learn? Fun to find you blog– Blessings and best wishes on the new book!!!
Hello Alysha, thank you for following my blog! Good luck with your new book!
Thank you so much for following my blog! Is great and inspiring to have an author follow my own blog! I would love to be able to publish such as yourself, still working hard to pen a book deal. I wish you so much happiness with your new book! I shall spread the word! Congratulations!!
Thank you 🙂 Don’t worry about getting a book deal! I decided to self-publish and it’s going really well so far!
Wow really? I never thought about self-publishing, seems a bit daunting. Thanks for the encouragement! I wish you all the success you deserve!
Thanks for following my blog. Best of luck with your writing endeavours. 🙂
Thank you for following my blog and liking my post. I hope your book is a great success!
Thanks for signing up to follow my blog. It is an incentive to create worthy content. I’ll be interested in keeping up with your future success.
Lida
Teaching is a challenge in itself, but boy, is it rewarding when a kid learns! Sounds hectic trying to teach and write, but then the kids will realize you know your stuff. Keep your energy up and good luck!
Thanks for your interest in my blog. It is an experiment to teach various dimensions of entrepreneurship using stories and poems.. In case you like the blog, you can share with your friends.
Thanks so much for reading and liking my “Why can’t all teachers have these tools?”
Good luck with your book. Fantastic.
Thanks for checking out thepenandtheinkstand! I’m glad you liked Ch. 4. Keep checking for more chapters! (I’m hoping to eventually publish it, but who knows!) 🙂
Best of luck with the new novel, sounds a fascinating read. Will be going on my kindle when I get home tomorrow.
Regards,
Paul…
Thank you so much:) You’ve made my day brighter!
Thank you for following my blog. Much success to you.
Thank you SO much for “liking” my Uncle Ken’s Book Club column on A Bloggy Mess. I have posted some other things I am working on, but I really do love the characters in the Perry Morgan piece more than the rest. They’re basically me and my two best friends, personalitywise. I am also a teacher, I have been content to Sub for the last few years. (My degree is in Elementary Ed, Multi Subject, Social Studies specialization) I really appreciate that a TEACHER, and an English Teacher no less, likes my stuff. It’s still a bit unpolished, but this may be the motivation I need to finish it. Thank you so much, and i look foreward to reading your work.
Inspiring Blogger Award is waiting for you in http://viktoryarch.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/inspiring-blogger-award/
Thanks for the hook up A.
Thank you for the follow and congratulations on the book!
Nice to meet you! Teachers rock! Congratulations on your book. Thank you for visiting my blog!
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Thank you so much for stopping by my blog and thank you for following. It’s an honor to have you.
Hi Alysha, thank you so much for liking one of my posts. Congratulations on your book! 🙂 – Lee x
Hi Alysha! I just wanted to say congrats on your book! Its so inspiring to see an author first debut and become such a hit! Well, I wanted you to know that I will be reviewing your book sometime this week just in case you were curious to check it out! Also if you are willing to interview for my blog that would be fantastic as well.
Alrighty,
The Best of Luck
Paige
Awesome! Can’t wait to read your thoughts:)
I’d love to do an interview- just email me! alyshakaye@gmail.com
Thanks for following Bookish Love 🙂 Congrats on the new book!
Great blog! I look forward to reading your posts and learning from you–I am just now beginning to blog am very impressed with both your subject matter and writing style.
Thank you- same to you:) I love anyone who posts about Education!
Thanks for visiting my blog, and leading me back to yours.
Thanks so much for the follow! I’m looking forward to reading more of your blog.
Hey! Thanks for the like! I’ve always wanted to write a novel- it feels so good to know someone out there is doing just that 🙂
Thanks for the like! And girl, GOD BLESS YOU for teaching middle school. Much respect to you for being out there doing what you are asking your students to do – that’s usually reserved for we specialists 😉
*claps* to you! (See what I did there?) hehe great post!
Thanks for liking the blog….I teach too, but not in a regular school. I run a couple of writers groups over here in backwoods England, and I like your tag line! Teaching is the best, and sneakiest way of learning I suspect).
And then there’s it’s and its . . .
As a former junior high Language Arts teacher and current high school English teacher, I can certainly empathize with trying to teach and find the time/energy to be an author! Kudos to you and keep fighting the good fight!
Good for you, Alysha, for your perseverance. I am a high school math/science teaching assistant–meaning I don’t bring work home–and I still find it hard to find time and energy to work on my writing projects. Wishing you great success with your novel!
Thanks for following Jumping From Cliffs! Good to meet you. I look forward to following your exploits in the teaching/writing world(s) 😀
Hi there!
We’ve chosen to nominate you for The Sisterhood of The World Bloggers Award because we enjoy your blog so much. Please check it out:
http://turdburglaruno.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/bloggers-award/
Thank you! xx
Thanks for the follow on scifibookreview. I used to be a high school English teacher who taught the their/they’re/there. Now I’m trying to remember all that grammar and finding out it isn’t easy. Best of luck with the new book.
Thanks for “liking” The Last Rose of Summer.” Hope you’ll continue to check out my blog. Good luck with your novel.
Thanks for checking out my blog Alysha, and it’s nice to meet you.
Thanks a lot Alysha for following my blog. The fact that you are an author and have recently published a book and that I am kinda baby in this world of blogging and writing makes your gesture hugely uplifting and has given me a lot of encouragement to keep going and continue what I started as a mere time pass hobby.
I am eagerly looking forward to read your work on this blog and especially The Waiting Room. The synopsis sounds very interesting and promising.
Keep doing the great work as a teacher as well as author. I wish you all the best for your endeavors.
Thanks a lot again.
Alysha, thank you for stopping by my blog and liking my review of “A Tale for the Time Being”. Curious if you read the book whether you would have your high school students read it. Although you did not like your stint at marketing, it has done you well in your effort to move into the indie publishing world. I am sorry that I would not be able to read your book as I already have about 6 books to read (including “The Luminaries” and “The Goldfinch” which are both long). My next review will likely be of Cynthia Ozick’s “Dictation”, a tale about the secretaries of Joseph Conrad and Henry James plotting to be remembered through the authors.Good luck!
Thanks so much, Alysha, for stopping by and for the like. I admire you enormously for having taken on self-publishing and apparently made a great go of it for your book! Perhaps you’ll be my role model! 🙂
And now another big thanks for the follow. My goodness! I hope you sell heaps and heaps of books!
Thank you so much! I hope you add it to your TBR list 🙂
Hello there, just wanted to let you know that I’ve nominated you for the one lovely blog award on my blog scripturiently.wordpress.com! Thanks for reading ❤
Wow thank you so much!
Hi,
Thanks for following me and all the best for your writing career….:)
Hi, I wanted to thank you for liking my post, 17 Reasons Teachers are Dedicated. Thank you for making a difference in children’s lives. May you have much success with your writing.
Ah, you are a brave soul! While working in Child Protection, I often visited the schools of the children on my caseload. Teachers often said they couldn’t do my job and without skipping a beat I added, and I couldn’t do yours. Bon courage et bonne chance! Léa
Thank you for following my blog! And so lovely that you’re in my old stomping grounds! I have a source for all that’s going on in literary Central Texas. 🙂
Thanx for the follow, enjoy!
You really have a challenge ahead of you, but as a teacher you will do fine.
Thanks for the follow, Alysha! We teachers/writers need to stick together. 🙂
Thanks for visiting my blog, Alysha! I’m following you on Twitter, too. Like Nancy Pennick said, we teacherwriters need to stick together. If you’d like to do a guest blog about your book on teacherwriter.net, just send me a message! I love featuring authors.
I’d love to! Shoot me an email: alyshakaye@gmail.com 🙂
Thanks for liking my post “Book Review: Moths and Caterpillars of the North Woods”, and following my blog. Good luck on your writing career! (Good luck on your teaching as well, I saw a t-shirt in a catalog that said: “Keep calm and teach on”.)
I’ve nominated you for the “One Lovely Blog Award” 🙂 -> http://wp.me/p47zrq-bx
Thanks for the follow. I look forward to more from you. 🙂
The Waiting Room blurbs intrigue me. Another for my ‘to read’ list. Good choice on that cover.
Love your succint “About page.” Your humor and personality comes out loud and clear. I look forward to reading your work and following your blog.
Their/they’re/there, are some of my top nemeses. Leaving a comment so you know I am looking up your book, like you mentioned. Have a blessed New Year!
Your “About” page cracks me up. People mixing up “they’re/their/there” irks me as much as “affect/effect”, or someone forgetting the Oxford Comma.
Thank you for the follow! I look forward to (hopefully) getting to read your novel.
Happy reading!
Couldn’t find the form on your blog! Shoot me an email and I can send you a PDF:) alyshakaye@gmail.com
Just dropped by to say thanks for visiting me and for liking!
Andrew
Great line! I’ve taught writing as well as art. Enjoyed both, but finding time to write is tough. Best of luck to you in the classroom and out. Thanks for the follow.
I love your site. So happy you took a look at mine so I can continue to look at yours. We have several things in common–I’m an engineer trying to write and sometimes it is a true struggle. I have an abundance of subjects putting the words together gets in the way. Excellent post. I will definitely be a frequent follower. Take care. B.J.
Hope you don’t ‘loose’ your mind trying to save the word from wrong word choices! Loose/lose is my personal bane.
Cool blog!
Hi! Fia Essen nominated me for the Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award, and I’ve nominated you. Check it out. https://laurenjeffreywriter.wordpress.com
” The Waiting Room” sounds like an amazing read. I have just read the synopsis on Amazon. Congratulations on your book and nice to meet you.
Hey! Thanks for visiting and following my blog. You’ve a wonderful blog! I’ll make sure to check out your book asap. Please keep visiting my blog. Hope you like it as much as I like yours. 😊
Alysha, thank you for following “A Way With Words.” My joy in writing is made more complete when people read what I write and even more as they respond.
I write mainly about faith and mental illness, though am known to share personal reflections, stories, and even the occasional poem. If you have any requests, please contact me.
I appreciate what you have going here with your blog. You have your own way with words. I have included you as one of my “Friday Featured Followers” in my latest posts. I hope you’ll check it out.
Keep up the faithful blogging. I look forward to reading more of your work in the days to come.
Blessings,
Tony
I saw that you visited my blog and I wanted to stop by and reciprocate. I’ll be seeing you in my blog feed and I hope you enjoyed what you read at my site.
I love this blog 🙂
Thanks for following me! I really love your work!
Congrats on you novel, Alysha and thanks for following my blog. Wishing you lots of success for 2015 🙂
Thank you for following my “Weaving the Magic Thread” blog; I hope that you will continue to enjoy it.
I started writing because of the confidence that a teacher gave me. Teachers have the power to make a great difference in a child’s life. I applaud you!
Hello, just letting you know that I’ve nominated you for the Liebster Award (https://joysofbookworms99.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/liebster-award-2/)
If one loves writing, you find the words flow… so good luck with the writing. Just look at it, as I do with my history site, I am educating my readers.
What a great intro! Looking forward to your blog. I have seen so many of their, I mean there..no they’re catastrophes… 😉 all around me as a social worker. They are lucky to have you. No doubt you are an awesome writer, teacher and all around person. -CC
Hello! I wanted to stop by and ask you a question. Would you be interested in a interview? You asked for me to check out your book THE WAITING ROOM a while back, and I am currently reviewing it. (Don’t worry I really like it.) You’ll be the first author interviewed on my blog and it may help you gain more readers/followers. I hope you a great day and good luck with your writing and your students! – Renee Bell.
Of course, I’d love to 🙂 alyshakaye@gmail.com
You can add “your” and “you’re” to the mix! Thanks so much for following my blog! Looking forward to reading more of your posts.
I am a fellow teacher/writer! Saving the world one spelling and grammar mistake at a time. I nominated you for the ‘Encouraging Thunder’ award. Check it out here: http://sarahtinsley.com/2015/07/23/encouraging-thunder/
Wow thank you!!!
Greetings from Wichita from a native Texan (born in Austin). Thanks for Liking my post over at Domestic Issue, and thanks for choosing to follow my blog. Best wishes to you for the new school year.
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Thanks for visiting.
Thanks for the follow Alysha!
Nice blog! and you have my dream job( actually both)! it’s a pleasure to meet you 😀
You as well! I’d love to hear your thoughts on my novel 🙂
Thank you for choosing to follow my blog! May God give you strength and direction as you teach children and write books.
Thanks for checking me out Alysha! I’m checking out your book ASAP!
Hey Alysha!
I hope this finds you doing well.
I see you have been a follower of “A Way With Words.” Great! Thank you.
We have now transformed into, “Delight in Disorder: Faith & Mental Illness” (delightindisorder.org). I hope you will join us there. On the left sidebar, there is a box (below “Get More Delight”) for subscriptions so you can get the most of our mission.
Take care & God bless,
Tony
Going to put this arltcie to good use now.
Yes! I love this about page because I can relate so much!