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Jun.19.2013
For those of you who were putting off buying (well, downloading) Verano the Fish because you couldn't see what was actually inside the book and didn't want to risk downloading some sort of fish snuff book that was far too dark for your children, well, your fears are assuaged!
And...
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Jun.04.2013
We (my son and I) presented Verano the Fish to his class yesterday for Book Day, and we handed out a reading guide for it, to show the kids how we made it.
It was accompanied by a short Keynote presentation (since the illustrations for the book and book itself live on the iPad we did it...
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Jun.03.2013
Originally posted at http://wombatsdigit.com/w/2013/06/the-story-of-creating-verano-the-fish-part-ii/
This is a continuation of the story begun in The Story of Creating Verano the Fish. Now on with the story…
But, as W.C. Fields is purported to have said, “Never work with children...
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Jun.02.2013
I rarely do book reviews on here, prefering to stick to Shelfari, Goodreads, LibraryThing, or my own personal blog, but I just finished this book the other day and felt I needed to tell more people about it.
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend: A Novel is an awesome book. Wildly imaginative,...
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May.30.2013
Originally published at http://wombatsdigit.com/w/2013/05/promotional-strategies/
So, as you can tell from the great pile of money I'm sitting on to write this, I'm something of a promotional genius. It's certainly not for my posture, as my posture goes to pot when I'm sitting on a pile...
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May.23.2013
Originally posted at my personal site.
So I don't know quite why you'd do this, expect, perhaps, to support my family and myself, allow us to put food on the table, but you can now pay real money for Verano the Fish at Amazon.com.
Verano the Fish: Kindle Edition
It's $2.99 because that'...
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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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May.08.2013
My daughter (5) and I have our own routine when we go into a book store (seek out the shelf where our books would go and make a space for the next one -- the Fenway Fiction books are under the editor, Adam Pacther's name, and there usually aren't too many of those in stock), but I like these steps...
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May.02.2013
Just a quick announcement, I'll be writing a little more about the process we used, a couple of tools, and, of course, the ultimate publication of a short children's story called Verano the Fish.
Download it for free in the iBookstore.
The story is by me, told to the kids originally while their mom...
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Apr.25.2013
Originally posted at: http://wombatsdigit.com/w/2013/04/the-guide-for-the-procrastinating-writer-tip-2/
Read a lot. To further inform your writing, you must, per many wizened writers who pitch this sort of advice, including yours truly, read a lot.
If your rich patron starts giving out...
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Apr.08.2013
So I posted last week on my personal site that I've made the whole of "The History of the Mayan Ball League" available to read from Goodreads.com.
I did it in an attempt simply to get more people to read the story. I enjoyed writing it (except for the fact that it was partially inspired by the...
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Apr.01.2013
So I usually visit the web comic xkcd every day it comes out. It's a little bit geeky, a little bit obtuse, some days, but usually it's entertaining and often sweet. It's something you might look at, on the surface, and think: "I could do that."
After all, it's mostly stick figures and...
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Mar.29.2013
I've mentioned a number of times on here my writing hours: usually up at five a.m., write for an hour and forty five minutes to two hours, then everyone else in the house is up and awake and my little private island is gone, evaporated with the sun and sounds of dishwashers being emptied (and...
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—Michael Joyce, hyperfiction pioneer
About Matthew
Matthew Michael Hanlon has perfected the art of sitting in various chairs. He lives in San Jose, California with his Muse, Lorraine and their little tykes, Dylan and Áine. He has a lot less time for sitting these days than he thought he would. Most sitting...
Causes Matthew Hanlon Supports
The Jimmy Fund, The Neely House, UNICEF
Matthew’s Favorite Books
At Swim-Two-Birds, by Flann O'Brien
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne
Only Forward, Michael Marshall Smith
The Hitchhiker's Guide to...
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