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Sausage Dogs!
They’re Everywhere! My wife and I have been noticing dachshunds for a few years. In our city there are a number of the cute little critters, and they always bring us a tremendous amount of joy. We began to try to spot them. If we did, we had a secret little sign to...
Overnight Success Takes A Long Time!
It’s really strange how perspective can shift. I'm just like everyone else, and, as a consumer of music or literature, I love new stuff and am always seeking interesting new things. When something shows up for the first time on my radar, I think of it only in the...
shout out to my artist
I have been so lucky to find a real artist. I hope at some point in the future this post will be redundant because she will be famous after we sell loads of books. Until then, just like me, Vivien Sárkány is not a public name. But she is an exceptional talent. I am...
Rhyming one time
So, every morning I do a thing called “530”. This means a minimum of 500 words, and then 30 mins min of reading about “the craft”… This is part of this mornings 530… Excuse the formatting. This WP editor is crap for this… Rhyming One Time Rhyming Just one time for now...
When siggy met phyllis (pt2)…
It’s Written… So… Now the prequel is written. It has been given a bit of a revision or two. And now it is with an Editor. Not just any editor, but a very eminent one, with decades of experience in publishing. So… It Will Be Up Soon… And you’ll be able to download it...
When siggy met phyllis
So, I went to a cafe to sit outside. I planned to listen to an audiobook from Story Grid about the “craft” and I began to do that but I found that I couldn’t concentrate. Why? Well, you don’t know it yet, but my website offers a “prequel” to the Siggy Loves Sausages...
Pictures and words…
So, the editor has made corrections. The writer (me) has agreed them, and batted ideas back and forth. The final draft has been laid out, and after a little snafu, we are off “at the races” as we build the illustrations from sketches into the full artwork. Lights,...
Let sleeping Dachshunds lie…
This is one of my favourite images of my little sausage dog from the new book Siggy Loves Sausages. Wait, because… It’s still a sketch, so I apologise for it being a little off-centre in the post. But, he really looks like a very happy wee chappie, doesn’t he? I hope...
Siggy 101
The first step First (in June, 2020) there were my own little “flower girls”. They appeared at the door (or rather, they rang the bell and then ran and hid) during lockdown and brought little bouquets of flowers to cheer us up. We began to talk, and played a little...
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