Meet A New Day Contributing Author Ann Richmond Fisher

Ann Richmond Fisher has been an educational writer since 1989. She has written more than 50 books and products for several major educational publishers. Ann likes to make people think and to have fun while doing so! An alumnus of Northern Michigan University, Ann is also a former classroom teacher. Ann’s husband, Keith, and their almost-grown children, Bryce and Betsy, have provided lots of ideas and practical help during Ann’s writing career. The Fishers have lived in Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ireland. Their current home is in Ohio. In her “spare” time, Ann loves to write and solve puzzles of all kinds and to do counted cross-stitching.

Meet A New Day Contributing Author Raymond Bottom

Raymond Bottom, a retired teacher, coach and school administrator, has been a free lance writer for over 50 years. His hundreds of published articles, short stories and poems have appeared in over a hundred different magazines. In addition to magazine contributions, Mr. Bottom wrote a weekly newspaper column for seven years for the Monroe (Michigan) Guardian and published three books: The Education of Disadvantaged Children, Scientists and Their Discoveries, and Hardwood Hero, a basketball novel.

Meet A New Day Contributing Author Dr. Linda Karges-Bone

Linda Karges-Bone, Ed.D. is a professor in the School of Education at Charleston Southern University, in Charleston, South Carolina, where she prepares future teachers and writes frequently for educational and parenting journals and other media. The author of twenty-three books, including The Educator’s Guide to Grants, Beyond Hands On: Techniques for Using Color, Scent, Taste, Touch, and Music to Enhance Learning, Grant Writing for Teachers, Middle Grade Assessment, A Guide to Long-Range Planning for Schools, and More Than Pink and Blue: How Gender Shapes Your Curriculum, Dr. Karges-Bone speaks and writes frequently on issues of curriculum, instruction, and learning styles. Her work has been published in The Reading Teacher, The SCACTE Journal, American Baby, Growing Parent, The Journal of Staff Development, The Journal of Early Education and Family Review, The Alpha Delta Kappan, The Charleston Regional Business Journal, Christian Parenting Today, Home Life Magazine, Gifted Child Today, Education Forum, Baby Talk, Dimensions, Lowcountry Parent, and other professional and popular publications.


She is a frequent television guest discussing issues pertinent to family and education and is the creator of the radio messages “Prayerful Parenting,” heard nationally on Family Radio Network. Dr. Karges-Bone has written dozens of children’s stories published in magazines for teachers and children, and is the author of a series of children’s stories on character education. Dr. Karges-Bone earned a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of South Carolina and is a former public and private school teacher, holding current certification in the areas of special education, elementary education, and early childhood education. She was named South Carolina’s Woman of Achievement in 1999 and is a member of the ADK International Sorority of Women in Education. Dr. Karges-Bone lives in coastal South Carolina with her husband, a bio-medical engineer for General Electric Medical Systems, their two daughters, and a wild beagle named “Chewy.”

Allow me to Introduce Myself (and this blog)

Hello! My name is Seth Schaller and I am the art director at Gary Grimm & Associates, publishers of A New Day magazine. In trying to come up with some interesting content for our website, I thought some of you might like to see how we create each issue of A New Day.
There are many wonderful people involved and it seemed like a good use of the Internet to introduce them. We will start off with our authors since that is where each issue begins-—with the writers who create the content of the magazine.