Random Stuff Kilts vs. Lederhosen 16 Sep 20131 Feb 2026 I have always seemed to identify more with my father's Scottish ancestry than my mother's German ancestry, and I'm not sure exactly why. I have three kilts representing two different…
Writing A new book, and a state-by-state look at the series 19 Aug 20131 Feb 2023 UPDATE: The information in this post is obsolete, but it's all been brought up to date in a new post from 2017. My 23rd book—18th in the Who Pooped? series—is…
Promotion I guess I’m one of the few… 15 Aug 20131 Feb 2026 In the bookstore today, a customer was looking at my big spinner rack of Who Pooped in the Park? books. He looked at the sign on the top, which shows…
Promotion A few book signing observations from Yellowstone 29 Jul 20131 Feb 2026 Last week I made my annual pilgrimage to Yellowstone Park to sign Who Pooped in the Park? books. There are two concessionaires in the Park: Delaware North, which operates the…
Articles Gary and the Wild Horses 3 Jul 20131 Feb 2026 I just searched through my blog to find something I wrote about my rodeo experience ten years ago and realized it wasn't a blog post, it was a newspaper article.…
Promotion 7 book signing tips for children’s authors 2 Jul 20131 Feb 2026 There are a lot of things that are different for an author who writes books for children—especially picture books. I've talked about some of these things before, but I've never…
Writing Collecting your freelance money 30 Jun 20135 May 2023 When we start out working as writers, most of us think that means we're going to spend our time writing. It can come as a shock when we find ourselves…
Random Stuff… Schedules and meta-blogging 26 Jun 20135 May 2023 Ever since I split my blog in two, creating this blog and Tea With Gary, I have tried to keep the writing-related items here and the tea-related items there. Yesterday,…
Captioning The Start of Online Captioning (realtime text transmission) 1 Jun 20135 May 2023 Closed captioning has been a part of television broadcasting for several decades. For pre-recorded shows, the captions can be added in a studio, carefully typed, proofed, and formatted. In the…