Hello, I’m Mikki Sadil. I
was born on a Quarter Horse ranch out in the middle of Nowhere, Texas. I grew
up with horses, but also in a military family, where moving from post to post
was a normal part of life. Consequently, I lived in many states, and in three
foreign countries before the age of 12, when my father was finally posted for
the last time, and we landed in Los Angeles, California. I’ve been writing most
of my life, but not really for publishing until a few years ago. In the meantime,
I taught Sociology courses at a university in Southern California, became an
exhibited artist, and for 23 years, bred, raised, and trained Appaloosa horses
for the show ring, along with my husband. When we retired from horse breeding
and training, we moved to the Central Coast of California. Now I live here with
my awesome husband, our “smartest” and “most beautiful” in all the world Corgi,
Dylan, our lazy Siamese/Himalayan cat, Beaujangles, and a beautiful but
unfriendly (!) Cockatiel, Riley.
I write books for kids and
teens. Someone asked me one day why I write for kids, when writing for adults
is more lucrative. In a way, that’s a hard question. Writing for kids, those
from ages 11 or 12 to teens about 16, is not an easy thing to do. Adults pick up
a book, read a couple of chapters and then decide if it is something they like
and are going to finish. Kids pick up a book, read the first page, and either
love the book or hide it under the covers because Mom will be ticked off if
they don’t finish it! So why do I write for “picky” readers? Because I love it.
Because I want to challenge young people to read, to get away from the video
games that consume so many of them with their violence and foul language, and
find fun and entertainment within the pages of a book. I don’t “write down” to
the younger kids, the 10, 11, 12 year olds. I write for them in the same way I
write for older teens…I challenge them to comprehend the words that make up a
story that takes them away from the everyday life of school, TV, and video
games. I write for kids because I want them to know, understand, and appreciate
the history of our country. I want them to visualize themselves in the same
kinds of situations my characters are always in, and realize that their
imagination can take them to places they have never been, or even thought
about. I write for kids because I want to share with them the magic that’s in
my heart and mind, and I want them to find that same magic in the pages of my
books. I want them to see and experience all of the other worlds that
imagination can take them to.
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Night Cries: Beneath the Possum Belly, book one Sixteen
year old Gabriela Gaudet is just
learning about all of her psychic powers. For weeks, the voices of three little
girls who had been murdered five years ago, have been begging her to find their
killer. When her parents’ traveling carnival comes to the children’s small
town, and breaks down, Gabriela knows this is the town that covered up the
children’s murder, and she sets out to find this killer. Along the way, she
meets Remi, the young man, also psychic, who is determined to help her. A web
of evil surrounds this town, a web that includes gargoyles and witches, and one
that threatens to draw Gabriela into its sticky strands. Will her powers be
enough to fight off this malevolence, or will the town win again? The Possum Belly waits.
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