Posts from Patria
Hi, Everyone! Horrible (and exciting) news today. I’ve just discovered that there’s a strange new menace threatening Patria. I know. I can hardly believe it myself. And I’m told that the Knights of the Blue Sock, including all the boys in the Squire Formation Course, have pledged their sacred honor to protect us. That’s comforting… (yaw  ...
 
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Hi Friends! Farnsworth present and reporting for duty here at the bog. Or is it blorg? Anyway, I saw that Oliver over at his whizz bang electronic gidgety gadget started to introduce some of our “colleagues” (as Twizzlers would say) from Mastodon Meadow. Not to be outdone, I am pleased to present today an exclusive interview with another of our colleagues, Master  ...
 
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Last week something momentous occurred in the world of book publishing. J.K. Rowling finally released the seven Harry Potter books for sale as ebooks–not through Amazon, B&N, and iBooks, but through her own shop on her own Pottermore website. As literary agent and author Nathan Bransford put it on his blog, Rowling just made an “end-run” around the enti  ...
 
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Hi Friends of Patria! Those of you who have read Stoop of Mastodon Meadow will recall how in that story Ambassador and Mrs. Stoop, Aunt Hazel, Professor Vesuvius and Lady Lavinia, along with King Evander, travel to Washington, D.C. in the Stoop mini-van. While there they enjoyed a top-secret meeting with the President of the United States–a meeting held at midni  ...
 
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Hi, Everyone! I’m having a great time at my new school in Patria, Mastodon Meadow. OK, the first couple of weeks were a bit tumultuous. Nerve-rattling. Exhausting! That’s because I got mixed up in another adventure, one that started on my very first day at school. It was a mystery, really–involving an anonymous new student newspaper, a missing printing press  ...
 
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I am very pleased to announce the publication this week of the second book in my humorous series of Patria stories for middle grade readers–Stoop of Mastodon Meadow. I want to thank Dan Ireland at Snap Design for help with the formatting of the text and preparing it for sale on Amazon’s Kindle Store and on Barnes & Noble’s Nook Store. For those of you w  ...
 
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