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Super Sonya vs the Woodpecker – final

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Michell

The final post. But is it really? See, we are doing something a bit different than all my other books. First off, it will be released in English (normal), Spanish and Canadian French. I have been very fortunate to have friends able to do those translations for me. This book is so special to me, I want to share it as widely as I can. And, if you would like to translate it into yet another language, let me know. Promotion I’m also promoting the book more widely than ever before. That has always been one of my failings. I don’t want to bother people. I’m changing that attitude to be, I would like to invite people to be part […]

Super Sonya vs the Woodpecker (pt 3)

Posted on January 4, 2025 by Michell

I finally had a rough draft of the story. I had a filled in story template. I didn’t yet have the name Super Sonya vs the Woodpecker. I sent the story template on to McQuina (my illustrator) to review. This all took much longer than I expected. I set a meeting with McQuina to talk next steps. I think this was about June. Next steps We discussed the book and how we would proceed. Now, keep in mind, I’ve done book layouts in the past but never anything with illustrations. What would we use to build the book? I know we didn’t have any illustrations yet, but it seemed important to me to know how we could actually assemble a finished […]

Super Sonya vs the Woodpecker (pt 2)

Posted on December 29, 2024 by Michell

Yes, you caught me. I cheated on the title of this post. Instead of “The Children’s book, pt 2”, I’m calling it by its actual title. Might as well start calling it what it is. To continue the narrative from Pt 1 As I talked about at the end of the last post, I was struggling to write a story for the proposed book. I had an idea but I was putting so much pressure on myself to create a “classic” that I was going nowhere fast. I suppose saying I was trying to write a classic is really overstating things. I had told a very high-level version of the story I wanted to tell to a friend who teared […]

The new children’s book (pt 1)

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Michell

I tried to tease you a little about my new children’s book in the last post. Whether that attempt to entice worked or not, you are here now and I welcome you. Perhaps you are interested in reading it to your own children or maybe you have always wanted to create one yourself. In either case, I hope my story will be of interest. Children’s book – the beginning I may be repeating myself, but I have wanted to release a children’s book for several years. Probably far enough back that my children would have read it (and they are adults now). Alas, I never really had a story to tell nor did I have a connection with a good […]