In all this holiday focus on the Mayan Ball League, end of the world, and novel editing, some of you may be crying out, “But what of Verano the fish, that lovable scamp of a fish!” Well, here’s a partial answer: And there’s your reason W.C. Fields said, “Never work…
It has come to my attention that today is a day for giving 30% off nearly everything, so I decided to jump into the fray and offer 30% off both “The History of the Mayan Ball League” and Verano the Fish*! Since both are free** your discount works out to about $0.00 (or, checking xe.com, £0.00…
I want to thank all of you who voted for Verano the Fish in the Goodreads Choice Awards. Unfortunately we didn’t make the cut for the semifinals, but we did gain a few new readers along the way. I’m busy trying to get a read-aloud version out, but our voice talent is a bit finicky pickety…
Listen, there’s only a few hours left, but there’s still time for you, yes, you, to go vote in the Goodreads Choice Awards 2013 for Verano the Fish for Best Picture Book. You can even download the book, for free, from Goodreads.com! This way you’ll possibly be even more informed than on the ballot where you…
Update: In the interest of ease-of-use, vote for Verano the Fish here: Best Picture Book category It’s that wonderful time of year again, the Goodreads Choice Awards season! This past year (according to the eligibility rules for the award, the year stretches from November, 2012 to November 2013 — this may be fallout from the Mayan Apocalypse) I’ve…
Get out and vote for Verano the Fish (you’ll have to write it in) for the Goodreads Best Picture Book of 2013, please: https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-picture-books-2013 If you’re in Boston, you’re probably already in a voting mood, from the mayoral race, so why don’t you keep on exercising that freedom to show what you really love and care…
For those of you who were putting off buying (well, downloading)Â 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 you should get downloading. After many…
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…
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 or animals.” W.C. Fields had no advice about drawing stuff yourself when you can’t draw, so one day I went with that…
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 of money, attempting to type. I’ve never read, anywhere, that, to improve your posture…