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I solemnly swear never to eat organic Girl Scout cookies.
News in the author world is all about the latest rounds of the Anthropic lawsuit payout. That has little to do with reader news, so let’s talk about me. Somehow, I lost track of the fact that I can make a perfectly good website for free. Well, not free, but with the money I’m already spending. It’s hard to keep up nowadays. Anyway, my little landing page that I post at the top of this newsletter every week is going to get a major revamp over the summer. The goal will be to list my website only instead of my website first. It makes me look like I’ve gotten my act together, which I totally haven’t. Who knows? I may even put this Substack under it as a subdomain. The possibilities are limitless! That’s not true. They are quite limited, but there are options. Let’s break to commercial. 👇👇👇
Today, being the 24th, leaves you with exactly 1 week to take advantage of my Smashwords Summer Reading Sale. I’ve set up five of my titles with super deep discounts. Tell you what, let me post the link and the promo pic, then I’m going to give you a little pep talk.
Here’s the promised pep talk. They say you should read twenty minutes a day. Let’s scrap that, especially for kids. Let’s say your kid reads for pleasure about ten minutes per day. Maybe they do that to unlock their video game time (or some other terrible parenting idea). Heck, we’ll even let them take Sundays off. So that’s 1 hour of reading per week, which is 52 hours per year. Over a 5 year period, that’s 260 hours, which is more than a solid week of nothing but reading. That’s real brain growth with all kinds of educational benefits, including better grades at school. It doesn’t even have to be my books. Even grade level picture books from the library will more than do the trick. And guess what. Adults can do it too. You don’t have to be Lord Brainiac from the planet Smartron to have healthy brain habits. Summer reading is always a good time and place to start.
On the writing front, we are now firmly on page 38 of the current jokes for kids project, which puts us at 13,314 words of hilarity. That leaves us at about 11 and a half pages to go. Not bad. I have drafted the first half of Squash Light Chapter 6, but will have to finish it up later today due to the ongoing cat-daughter wars. (Don’t ask.)
Tomorrow is Memorial Day, so it’s your obligation to live as freely as possible. That’s what they died for. Jesus died for you and American soldiers died for your freedom.
Until Next Time, God Bless!
A few pics of my youngest receiving EOY awards including the EES Mountain Mover Award. She’s finally moving on to middle school.