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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…
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It is a great thing that my writerly ego is larger than the Sahara Desert, because, though I tried, valiantly, to get our local library to host myself (and the kids! I used the cuteness of the kids as an application weapon!) during their local author day, I received word yesterday* that we were not…
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So some of you out there may be doing something for NaNoWriMo. More likely than not writing. Or avoiding writing. Well, I’m not attempting to splurt 50,000 words into a document this year, but I wrote a tool, a long time ago now, to help you write a lot of words without fussing too much…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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My kids have no idea that the Red Sox are not supposed to win the World Series every few years. My son was born a year or so after they won in 2004 and my daughter had the consideration to be born in between games of the 2007 World Series against the Rockies. And that’s…
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Michael Joyce is a master at evoking a sense of loss, memory and how unreliable it can be (the line from “afternoon, a story,” the seminal hyper fiction, is a great example: “I want to say I may have seen my son die this morning.”), and connections. When I read fiction by Joyce I’m most…