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Q. Why did you decide to write this book? A. If you leave any one person alone with a kid long enough, one of them will try to teach something to the other.  As a “pack” I think people have this whole instinctual-drive-to-educate thing going on, and I was somehow lucky enough to grow into [...]

Q. What excites you most about your company’s unique publishing process? Why did you choose it over more traditional book formats? A. It’s not hard to tell that personalized stories resonate longer and louder in the imaginations of children, and that an active imagination fosters a lifetime of curiosity and creativity.  I like to think [...]

Writing for Kids By John Abernathy As a little-if-at-all-known author of only minor publication and celebrity comparable to your local spelling bee champion, I am often called upon to divulge wisdom from my vault of knowledge and experience.  If I had a nickel for every time someone stopped to ask for some advice or guidance [...]

Cartoons & Censorship By John Abernathy This article started out about what a difficult and harrowing job it is to write books for kids, but it accidentally turned into seven-hundred words about cartoons and censorship because I rarely pay attention to what I’m writing.  To be honest I’m not even sure I have heard anyone [...]

Idearrhea By John Abernathy You’re probably familiar with writer’s block: the purported scourge of professional and amateur authors alike in which the creativity of storytelling gets all gooey and blocked up like a manatee at a water park. There is, in fact, a significant chance that the preceding simile is a result of writer’s block. I’m [...]

Charge of Youthful Aging By John Abernathy Like all adult human beings who have recently recovered from a condition known as their “mid-twenties,” I suddenly find myself becoming aware of the fact that I may not be immortal after all.  People, it seems, have a tendency to age whether they like it or not.  This [...]

Q. What excites you most about your book’s topic? Why did you choose it? A. The prospect of helping someone have an “ah ah” moment that helps them make sense and get some clarity about their pain and struggle due to a difficult relationship. The whole topic of relationships, in general, excites me. I know [...]

Q. Why did you decide to write this book? A. Many times I wondered why I was lucky enough to have a successful marriage and others did not.  I wanted to help people have what I had and it seemed that people going through divorce or scared about the possibility of getting divorce were the [...]

Showing Up By Edie Sangiorgio Last week I got a booth to sell my book “Divorce Vows” at the “World’s Largest Yard Sale.”  It was an event sponsored by several of the local radio stations, held in the parking lot of the Budweiser Event Center in northern Colorado. It was a chilly morning, in the [...]

Wisdom at 3:00 a.m. By Edie Sangiorgio This morning I woke up at 3:00 a.m. which over the past few years has become a nightly ritual. I am in full swing into the peri-menopausal stage of my life so sleeping through the night has become a rarity. In Dr. Christine Northrop’s book, “The Wisdom of [...]