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Who Pooped in the Classroom

I’ve just released a free idea book for using the Yellowstone edition of Who Pooped as a teaching tool. It includes discussion topics, definitions, and activities aimed at English Language Arts, Ecology, and Geography. It includes images from the new 20th anniversary edition of the book.

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Tips for author interviews

Some of us thrive in the spotlight; some of us not so much. Either way, if you’re an author promoting a book, you are going to end up being interviewed. No matter the platform, I have some tips for you to make the interview work out well.

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Fun with AI images

Yesterday, I was working on a blog post called 11 Ideas for promoting your new book. I knew what I wanted for a header picture, but I didn’t feel like getting cleaned up, dressed up, and going out to stage the shot. It was a Saturday, and I’d much prefer…

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Branding Montana

Branding had a whole different meaning in the 1800s–or did it? Montana is a marvelous juxtaposition of old and new, archaic and modern, and if you need an example of that, ask some random Montanans what branding is.

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Gotchas in Book Contracts

When I had an opportunity to move from self-publishing to traditional publishing years ago, I didn’t think I needed a literary agent. As it turns out, microelectronics business contracts and book contracts are very different things.

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