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May.17.2013
So fresh off the runaway success of Verano the Fish (iBookstore link), my daughter grabbed my notebook the other day, my pen, and began sketching "the characters for the next two books," she told me. She's five. I don't know from whom (or where) she gets the work ethic.
But it just goes to...
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May.15.2013
So until now you had to be one of those lucky enough to have an iPad to read Verano the Fish, but today I'm announcing the immediate availability of Verano the Fish right in your very own web browser!
So if you have eyes and a computer you can now read Verano the Fish, for free!
At...
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May.13.2013
Originally posted at http://wombatsdigit.com/w/2013/05/the-story-of-creating-verano-the-fish/
We started working on Verano in a furniture store.
I was occupying the kids, who, like all kids, are like mini-tactical nuclear devices in shopping situations. You need to handle them...
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Apr.18.2013
Children liked Kafka, and he liked them. He was comfortable around children and - I suspect - children looked upon Kafka as a big, kinda odd, kid himself. He doted on his nieces and nephews (one of the few things he had in common with this father). And Kafka was playful, for there was much to enjoy...
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Apr.17.2013
Middle school is hard enough, but when Hal finds out that his dream of getting his very own room can only happen if he gets a good grade on an assignment he works hard to make the grade. But, no one said middle school would be easy!
Hal must write in his journal which will be put into a time...
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Feb.16.2013
So I've been wrapped up in my job, long-term subbing for 8th grade English at a private girls' school, working on my cover letter to apply for the full-time job that's opening up there, and completely forgot that I planned to send out my picture book manuscript King David's Wrong Notes at the end...
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Jan.31.2013
Millie looked at the screen in the front of her couch and it read, “When ready to return home, please press the red button.”
She asked, “Is everyone ready to go home?”
Tired little voices from the couches behind her agreed that they were ready to go home. Jasmine said, “I just wish that it wasn’t...
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Jan.23.2013
As they were leaving the park they saw the booth for donations and Millie bent down to retrieve her last penny. Again she had difficulty getting the penny out of the little window and Honey came to her rescue and popped it out as easily as she did the first one. She dropped it in the slot of the...
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Jan.18.2013
Rose and Sir Thomas led them into the park and over to the “Whip the Tail” ride. It was a huge cat’s tail that swung back and forth lazily from side to side. It had cars that ran back and forth inside. As the tail went from one side to center, the cars would come closer to the root of the tail....
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Jan.11.2013
The door to the instant travel machine closed, a red light flashed once and then the door opened again, instantly…
As the door opened, a weird red light flooded the compartment from outside and a wispy red fog blew into the doorway and filled the little chamber. Everyone’s eyes were staring at the...
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