One of the long shots in this endeavor is that we've never been paid for our writing; not that we've never been published... Then we'll get the comments and reviews from the "editors". After a few more tweaks, we'll submit the manuscripts and see how they fly with agents. Besides, a good children's book...
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Thoughts on character names
We’ve been talking a lot lately about characters’ names in a young adult novel. This may seem trivial, but we’ve discussed this subject so many times...At one point, the discussion grew so burdensome we set a few ground rules for ourselves with respect to character names.
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What made me decide to write a book?
Okay, we thought about it. Sounds like a plan. We figured we might as well jump all the way in, feet first. That’s our style: ready-set-jump, look down. Sometimes it works to our benefit, sometimes not. But creative minds tend to run a little heavy on the emotional side and, after all, this was...
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