Writing After the Writing’s Done 12 Mar 2026 Okay, the cover is done and the interior pages are done. Time to sit back and chill, right? No. Now comes the headache of getting the book ready for release.…
Books… Who Pooped in the Classroom 19 Jan 2026 Over the years, my Who Pooped in the Park books have found their way into many classrooms, and quite a few parents have probably gotten tired of reading them out…
Books… 11 ideas for promoting your new book 8 Nov 20258 Nov 2025 It's a shock to the system. Really. You've finished your book, you've either landed a contract with a traditional publisher or made arrangements to self-publish. You're sitting back, waiting for…
Books… Gotchas in Book Contracts 27 Feb 2025 When I had an opportunity to move from self-publishing to traditional publishing years ago, I didn't think I needed a literary agent. I landed contracts through personal connections and highly-targeted…
Writing AI in Microsoft Word: Not Ready for Primetime 24 Feb 2025 It seems like every product on the tech market has to have artificial intelligence these days. There's AI built into all of the big software suites (Microsoft, Google, Adobe...), of…
Writing Poop Emojis: Law and Confusion 10 Apr 20235 May 2023 As the Who 💩 in the Park guy, I have opinions on the "smiling poop" emoji. Any emoji aficionado would know that there are a lot of ways to interpret…
Writing Copyedit or Copy Edit? 13 Apr 20221 Feb 2026 Oh, the strange dilemmas we encounter when writing a resume! I'm looking for some new freelance work at the moment, and I keep getting dragged off into different rabbit holes…
Books… An updated state-by-state look at the Who Pooped series 19 Nov 20175 May 2023 A few years ago, I got to wondering how many different states were covered by my Who Pooped? series, and it led to a blog post that is now obsolete, as…
Writing A huge milestone in poop! 16 Nov 20177 Jan 2022 Overall, yesterday wasn't a great day. My tea shop's main computer died during a Windows 10 update, our wi-fi went utterly wonky, my phone stopped making or accepting calls, I…
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