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31 Aug 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, etc.), and there’s also one for “Vile Puns.”
As nothing is more unfunny than explaining a joke, here goes:
A Peer is a member of the British aristocracy, and telling someone to “take a long walk off a short pier” is a way of telling someone to get lost.
So anyway, you can imagine how proud I am of this pun! And if you read any of the award-winning entries and think, “I could write worse than THAT,” be sure to enter this contest next year. 🙂
14 Jun Hey, want to see something cool? Here’s something cool.
Little Leonardo’s MakerLab: Building is not out just yet, but it can be preordered today!
29 May Little Leonardo’s MakerLab in the Oregonian summer reads!
The Oregonian has an article up about great summer reads, and guess what books are in it? GUESS!!
08 May 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 with simple, easy-to follow instructions
- Designed to help kids understand science, technology and the natural world
Each book in this STEAM series features more than 20 fun and engaging hands-on activities for young readers.
12 Jan 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.
05 Dec SPY STUFF is one of the best kids’ books of the year! (Right?)
The good people at Powell’s Books have posted their best kids’ and young adult books of 2018 . . . and The Pocket Guide to Spy Stuff is on the list!
A big thank you to this mysterious “Gigi L.” 🙂
06 Oct 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 to read!