Countdown! – The book is still coming! It has been an interesting and educational journey, going from inception to reality of my first children’s novel.  The editorial and publication process since signing the contract to publish The Wonders of the Peculiar Parasol has been much more entailed than I ever realized. While that process is chugging along (and it is moving close to completion each day), I thought I would share how we got here in the first place. One of the most common questions I get asked is: “Where did you get the idea for the book?” After I retired, I had been toying with creating a children’s picture book, aimed at the 3-6 year old market, and had...

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Welcome to Dragonstone Stories. This project is now in its second year of development and I am delighted to announce that we have signed a contract to publish our first book, The Wonders of the Peculiar Parasol with a target availability date of October 10, 2019.  Additionally, we have also signed a contract to continue the Dragonstone Stories series with a second book to be published as soon as possible. The publisher of our work is Cresting Wave Publishing (gocwpub.com). I intend to use the Blog section of our website to alert you about upcoming book signings and tell you how the stories came about, to explain how I created the names of characters and places, and to provide other...

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