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Exciting Book Release!

Tortoise and Hare? No Way! has been released by Pen It Publications.

Your favorite bookstore should be able to order it.

ISBN-10:1639844481

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1639844487

Paperback $15.99

ISBN-13: 978-1639844494

eBook $4.99

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tortoise-and-hare-no-way-charles-suddeth/1143564834?ean=9781639844487

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=charles+suddeth&crid=1XGPNKNI246NZ&sprefix=charles+suddeth%2Caps%2C323&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

When the Tortoise and the Hare decide to race, everyone knows the outcome – the Hare is sure to win! But when the narrator of Tortoise and the Hare? No Way! interrupts the story and starts asking the readers if they want to continue, things start getting a bit unpredictable. In this interactive children’s picture book, readers join the race and help the Tortoise as he strives to win the race. With each page, the narrator asks readers if they want to hear more of the story, and the Hare gets a little bit more suspicious. Along the way, readers will be delighted by the vibrant illustrations and the humor of the narrator as he tries to keep the story going. When the race is finally over, the outcome is no longer so certain. Children will be delighted to have a unique twist on the classic story and one up on the adults in the room. With

its mixture of fun, suspense, and unexpected surprises, Tortoise and the Hare? No Way! is an exciting and interactive story that will enchant children of all ages.

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Watch out for Wiley!

How fast can a hare run?

In an emergency, they get hit 45 MPH. Yes, they can outrun coyotes (sorry Wiley). The downside is they are short-winded sprinters and will need to either find shelter or a hiding place.

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Today!!!!

National Author’s Day is today!

THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE

Read to a child. Give them books!

Urge them to read. Have fun!

I’m a children’s author,

the books are up to you & your child.

http://tinyurl.com/y4fptr67

Kobo http://tinyurl.com/y34p62re

@dancinglemurpre http://tinyurl.com/y8pt5kx8

#history #nativeamerica #stoneman

Beware the Blue Lady

Despite warning, Lucinda rides her stallion into the hills of Pea Ridge.

Alvin, son of a wealthy landowner,

offers to protect her from Samuel, a killer.

Then Lucinda meets the Blue Lady.

Anthology. #bookriders
https://www.amazon.com/Bookriders-Marie-Beaud/dp/B09NRD8FWQ/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=bookriders&qid=1642288964&sr=8-2

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Poets those Anglo-Saxons be!

Lēoþ-wyrhta – Anglo Saxon word for poet is a marvelous term, related to laud-worker

lēoþ-wyrhta, m.n: poet. (LAY-oth-WUER’H-ta / ˈleːɔθ-ˌwyrx-ta)

lēoþ = song, poem

wyrhta = worker, artist, maker, creator

lēoþ is cognate with Latin laudatory

From Riddle 25 of the Exeter Book:

Ic eom wunderlicu wiht wifum on hyhte
neahbuendum nyt; nægum sceþþe
burgsittendra nymthe bonan anum

I am a wondrous creature for women in expectation,
a service for neighbours. I harm none of the citizens
except my slayer alone. (this book from hometown of my 8th great grandmother, Marie Southewoode)

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Celebrating!

Texas banned Trail of Tears books.

I now have a banned book!

Stone Man and the Trail of Tears

Barnes & Noble – http://tinyurl.com/y4fptr67

Kobo – http://tinyurl.com/y34p62re

@dancinglemurpre – http://tinyurl.com/y8pt5kx8

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Just released

CassaDark
By Alex J. Cavanaugh

His world is unraveling…

Bassan’s father is stepping down from command. His best friend almost dies when Bassan freezes. Now, he’s being sent across the galaxy to speak at an important conference. Despite saving the eleven races years ago, he’s paralyzed by fear and doubt. Could things get any worse?

Once there, new acquaintance Zendar convinces Bassan to visit his planet for a humanitarian mission. Bassan’s special connection to ancient technology is the key to saving Zendar’s people. One problem though—it’s a prisoner planet.

On Ugar, he discovers things aren’t so straightforward. As each secret reveals itself, the situation grows more desperate. If he can’t find the right answers, he might die along with Zendar’s people. Can Bassan summon the courage to be a hero again?

Science fiction – Adventure / Space Opera / Space Exploration
Print ISBN 9781939844842 $16.95 eBook ISBN 9781939844859 $4.99

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HORSES!

Meet Gertrude—she steals the show in Stone Man and the Trail of Tears.

Though I am no horseman, I am a horse lover. Horses often show up in my stories.

After U.S. soldiers attack twelve-year-old Tsatsi’s Cherokee village, his family flees to the Smokey Mountains. Facing storms, flood, and hunger, they’re forced to go where Stone Man, a monstrous giant, is rumored to live. Their journey is a dangerous one. Will Tsatsi find the strength to become a Cherokee warrior? And will they ever find their family again?
http://www.dancinglemurpressllc.com/new-adultyoung-adultmiddle-grade

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Certified horse lover!

I  love horses (but I am no horseman) so Beware the Blue Lady has a black Percheron stallion, Hellfire, who steals the show!

Lucinda spurns the warnings and rides into the hills of Pea Ridge.

Alvin, son of a wealthy landowner, warns her about Samuel, a known killer.

Then Lucinda meets the Blue Lady.

Anthology.
https://www.amazon.com/Bookriders-Marie-Beaud/dp/B09NRD8FWQ/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=bookriders&qid=1642288964&sr=8-2

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YA Fantasy

My Magic Summer
With the Moon Maidens
By Brian Carmody
Print 9781939844804 $17.95
EBook 9781939844811 $4.99
Young Adult – Contemporary Fantasy/Coming of Age/Boys & Men
Who are these moon maidens?
Summer of ’94 and Connor Whelan is excited to spend the last three months before his senior year with his uncle in Texas. Aware this trip is due to his mom’s cancer treatments, he still hopes this will be a season of magic.
He gets his wish when he encounters three magical women one night. Claiming to be from the moon itself, bewitching Iluna, flighty Eiru, and motherly Cassiopeia are about to make Connor’s last summer of childhood one to remember.
However, his interest in local girl Laura puts him in hot water with her tough boyfriend. His fascination with Iluna also confuses him. Will the moon maidens’ lessons about joy, wonder, and hope get him through this crazy summer?
An award-winning screenwriter and author, Brian Carmody is a dreamer, a wisher, a hoper, a prayer, a pretender and a magic bean buyer. He’s had moondreams from Texas to Virginia, and now California, where he has plenty of other flax golden tales to spin by his fire. www.brianzwriter.com/
Links:
Dancing Lemur Press – http://www.dancinglemurpressllc.com/new-adult-young-adult
Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0965XBJ7Y
Barnes & Noble – https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-magic-summer-brian-carmody/1139629159?ean=9781939844804
iTunes – https://books.apple.com/us/book/x/id1573280572
Kobo – https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/Search?Query=9781939844811
Scribed – https://www.scribd.com/search?query=9781939844811&language=0
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58346132-my-magic-summer-with-the-moon-maidens




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Some ideas about writing picture books: Picture books are a hybrid animal—Not quite poetry, prose, song, screenplay—a little of each. Flavor it with rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance, repetition, inverted word order, meter, beat, metaphors/similes, to name a few.

Write just it in time, be oh so sublime,

Add some spice, space it out, spell it out,

Or march, march, march, bang that drum,

Go not where others have gone, on your block be the first.

Have fun! This was in response to an online poll: rhyme or prose—as if that covered all the bases, but just my humble opinion.

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