ENCHANTED’s New Cover

No..wait! It’s not what you think! A while back, fellow Mermaid author Carlene Love Flores dropped me a line to tell me about a really cool project her neice was doing in school. “Alex’s 8th grade class is doing a group assignment where they have been asked to design a new cover of one of their favorite books and…

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Little T on AlphaOops

Google Alerts is a wonderful thing. I will never get sick of finding clips like this on the internet. I should piece them together and play a little movie of them every morning when I wake up. If I need more motivation than that, I don’t deserve to call myself a writer. Plus, I kind of like his musical…

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Don’t Dress Your Cat in an Apron

“Don’t dress your cat in an apron
Just cause he’s learning to bake
Don’t dress your horse in a nightgown
Just cause he can’t stay awake…”
–Dan Greenburg “Don’t Dress Your Cat in an Apron”, from Free to Be You & Me (1974)

I have this song/poem on my iPod shuffle that I take to the gym — Casey put it on one…

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Princess Claire and AlphaOops

Our newest addition to the AlphaOops Family Album: For the story of reading AlphaOops: H is for Halloween to Claire (and a few more gorgeous pictures like this), click here. Thanks, Claire! I’m so glad you enjoyed the book. Keep reading! Tweet

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Your Saturday Halloween Happiness

Does it get any happier than this? Ryan Sizemore–son of Apex book luminary Jason Sizemore–age 3, loves his copy of AlphaOops: H is for Halloween. What a cutie! It’s been far too long since I’ve had a chance to hang with the Sizemore Brood. Want to send me a picture of you & AlphaOops? Email me at akontis —…

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