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Newsletter No. 33 (March/April 2024)

Newsletter #33 - March / April 2024 Welcome back! Hope you've been well. Free Words! I thought I'd kick things off this month by sharing a "deleted" short story. "Zuzu Goes to School" I wrote as part of my children's chapter book The Groundhogs of Linden Manor. After all was said and done it didn't fit the tone of the rest of the stories. I hope you like it! "Zuzu Goes to School" Zuzu woke up thinking about all the things she was going to do today. She got out of bed. She went to the bathroom...

7 days ago • 2 min read

Newsletter #31 - February 2024 Hello! Nice to see you again. Writer's Break After nine years of constant work on one book or another, and always knowing what big project was coming next, I now find myself on a break. This is partly by design and partly by circumstance. Becuase of the way my last three projects piled up on each other, I purposefully didn't look to start anything new. At the same time, I just haven't encountered that spark that insipred my other books. I'm okay getting off the...

2 months ago • 2 min read

Newsletter #31 - December 2023 / January 2024 Happy New Year! This double edition of the newsletter takes on the theme of looking back and looking forward. 20 Years of 3 Minutes and 49 Seconds November 2023 marked the 20th(!) anniversary of my music blog, 3 Minutes and 49 Seconds. While it has definitely been a lower priority for me in the past ten years than it was for the first ten, it's still where most of my "published" writing lives. If you're interested, here's a history I wrote for the...

4 months ago • 2 min read

Newsletter #30 - November 2023 This is "old home" month, in which all my tidbits seem to involve topics I haven't written about in a while. You Never Know Where You'll Spot Eleanor Cameron While in Peoria earlier this month I came across the display pictured at left. And not long after that I got an e-mail from Lauri Rose, whose aunt was an author, teacher, and friend of Eleanor Cameron's! Lauri kindly sent me some letters Eleanor had sent to her aunt, as well as a beautiful handmade book....

5 months ago • 1 min read

Newsletter #29 - October 2023 This month I'm excited to share my second conference presentation, three favorite reads of 2023, and an update on my latest projects. And this month's Hopefuls track celebrates a new album from Semisonic, after a mere 22-year wait. Talking About Arnold Lobel in Chicago In early October I attended the annual confernece of the Midwest Popular Culture Association in Chicago. I gave a talk on author and artist Arnold Lobel, and attended a bunch of cool panels on...

6 months ago • 2 min read

Newsletter #28 - September 2023 Since I've been in a promotional state of mind, this month's newsletter is very focused on my newest book, Jack Kent: The Wit, Wisdom, and Whimsy of a Comic Storyteller. 5 Favorite Children's Books by Cartoonists Shepherd, a site that helps readers find books they'll love, asked me to create a Top 5 list based on my Jack Kent book. Since Jack was a cartoonist who also made children's books, I picked my five favorite children's books by cartoonists. Check it out...

7 months ago • 1 min read

Newsletter #27 - August 2023 This month's newsletter is early becuase of some time-sensitive information. Book Signing Very Soon! I'm so happy to be welcomed back to Bobzbay Books in to sell and sign books! It's happening Saturday September 2, from 10am - 12pm. The big attraction is my new book about Jack Kent, but I'll have copies of everything available, including... A New Brain Clouds Book! It's been 24 years since I last offered up a printed collection of Brain Clouds comics. So I proudly...

9 months ago • 1 min read

Newsletter #27 - August 2023 This month's newsletter is early becuase of some time-sensitive information. Book Signing Very Soon! I'm so happy to be welcomed back to Bobzbay Books in to sell and sign books! It's happening Saturday September 2, from 10am - 12pm. The big attraction is my new book about Jack Kent, but I'll have copies of everything available, including... A New Brain Clouds Book! It's been 24 years since I last offered up a printed collection of Brain Clouds comics. So I proudly...

9 months ago • 1 min read

IPaul V. Allen Newsletter No. 26 July 2023 This month I've got a Jack Kent update, a piece of "humor," and the usual features. Note that this month's Brain Clouds is the first in a series of seven. Collect them all! Jack Kent: The Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom of a Comic Storyteller My biography of cartoonist and children's author Jack Kent, over three years in the making, is here! It was due in mid-August, but in a rarity for the publishing world, it actually came out early.It's available now to...

10 months ago • 3 min read

Paul V. Allen Newsletter No. 25, June 2023 Welcome to my June newsletter! I hope increasing the frequency to monthly doesn't make it feel as though we're seeing too much of each other... A Visit to the Berenstain Archives I spent a week this month in a top secret location in the Philadelphia suburbs going through the vast archives of Stan, Jan, and Mike Berenstain. I saw so many cool things which I can only tease at this stage of the project, but they included original artwork, unproduced...

11 months ago • 1 min read
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