We are ever so grateful to the Duluth Children’s Museum for inviting us to launch Just Another Monday at the January 2013 First Friday Storyland night. The museum is now located in Clyde Park in Duluth, at 115 S. 29th Ave. It’s a great place to take kids for lots of hands-on activities and special […]
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For all aspiring authors, the Highlights Foundation is a wonderful workshop resource. They have unique, inspiring theme ideas and impressive experts. I haven’t gone to one yet, they’ve been too far away for us, but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t like to attend. This one was just forwarded on to me, so I thought I’d share […]
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We have unfortunate news. If you haven’t been following along lately, we needed to find a printer who could fold our very thick, sturdy, durable paper…and we did. Pause for a “yay, we jumped that hurdle” moment. Okay, so now, we’re waiting on our blank dummy and our usually-very-on-top-of-things liaison doesn’t contact us the very […]
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Time for another segment in the Saga that is Just Another Monday. To keep it brief (and easier to read) here are the bullet points: We debated and hemmed and hawed and then… …decided to start a publishing company! SWAK publishing, LLC is born We paperworked, ran numbers, filled out forms, looked into printables, etc […]
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We recently hosted a Kickstarter project and thought we would share some ideas that worked for us. Here they are in no particular order. Good luck in your ventures! Reddit.com – make a post of your page and respond to comments Referral Bonus – the last week we made a facebook post of an […]
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It was pretty tricky to keep ‘tabs’ on what was working and whether all roads really did lead back home as we claim in Just another Monday. We finally had to sketch it out as you see here. This also told us how many pathways exist for navigating the book again and again. And it […]
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We got news and quotes back from our printer, so this seemed like the perfect time to catch everyone up on how our quest has progressed so far and where we’re at now. For those few of you who don’t know or who haven’t looked anywhere else on our blog, we’re attempting to publish a […]
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Books are like agates. I always end my school presentations for the book, Agate, with this line. Books and agates have this in common: they both make us want to pick them up because we know there is something truly special inside. Learn, teach, have fun You can learn anything from a book. Stephen Chu, […]
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The reason so many stories use this opening is that it works! You are immediately transported to the land of the story – in almost any place, time, or culture (for example [from wikipedia]): German: Es war einmal… ‘Once there was…’ French: Il était une fois… ‘There was a time…’ Norwegian: Det var en gang… […]
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