BAD DAD JOKES is here!

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I Won a Major Award!

No big deal, but I was just awarded WRITING’S GREATEST PRIZE! No, not the Nobel Prize in Literature. Even better—I won the ”Vile Pun” category in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. As background, the BLFC challenges writers to compose the first sentence for the worst imaginable novel. It has various genre categories (Adventure, Romance, Science Fiction, […]

Little Leonardo’s MakerLab books!

Hey, did you notice that I have two new books out? These STEAM activity books were a lot of fun to write. Hopefully, there’s fun to read as well. ROBOTS and SPACE are available now, and the next one in the series, BUILDING, is coming soon! Fun science activity books for readers 4-8 Gorgeously illustrated […]

Are you ready for your Moon shot?

1. Take a selfie through a toilet paper roll.‬ ‪2. Pretend you’re the Moon.‬ ‪3. Provide others with glee as they picture you painstakingly taking a selfie through a toilet paper roll.‬

Mystery Readers!

A fascinating thing about writing books is that I almost never know who’s reading them. I just have to embrace the mystery. And a fun thing about having a sister who works in schools and libraries is that she revealed part of the mystery today, after a student pulled The Drake Equation out of his backpack […]