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Getting answers to make the best choices in life come from asking the right questions. Do you ask yourself destructive questions like “Why can’t I make friends?” or “Why can’t I do this?” or “Why can’t I make the money that I want to make?” your mind will explain. From my perspective, the answer to […]
The Poetry of Vehicles features eleven poems that I wrote to photographs that I took at the nationally-known Hot August Nights in Reno, NV and at the National Auto Museum. The Poetry of Vehicles is uplifting for adults and children. Would you like to see photographs of really neat cars, and poems that I wrote about […]
Writing children’s picture books is hard. I make it harder on myself because my goal is to write award-winning picture books. Over the last four years I have written 60 manuscripts. Of those Four are hopeless. They’ll never see the light of day, including possibly the worst version of Cinderella ever written. But, I did […]
It’s not unusual for it to take years to craft the words for a picture book manuscript. Would your students or patrons find it interesting to understand how much work goes into creating a picture book? Would they enjoy seeing a manuscript evolve from a first draft? Constructive questions that help with refining writing. Other […]
In addition to the eBook and printed editions of the Monster on Top of the Bed, I have a limited number of the CD’s. The CDs feature a full-color booklet that fits into the CD case. The audio CD plays the book in English (Iiya (Grandmom) Female) (Virginia Castleman Female), Spanish (Female: Veronica Gabrellini, Argentia […]
Here are a few examples of programs that can be conducted with myself or several presenters. How to write a _____ book (picture, middle-grade mystery, novel, etc.) Introduction to illustration Words + Illustrations = Success Interactive session where students critique a work-in-progress. Using photographs to generate book ideas Brainstorming story ideas Explore the FAQs, below, […]