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Hawaii
Last Christmas, my parents gifted our family a trip to Hawaii. This past week we went on the trip. We stayed on the island of Maui and had a really great time. Since I started writing this blog, I try…
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Community Connection with Laura Williams
Hello friends! I’m on vacation this week, so no blog post. However, last week I was able to be a guest on the Community Connection with one of my favorite people, Laura Williams. You can listen with the link below!…
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Creating the Characters
My absolute favorite part of being an author is creating the characters that exist in my world and coming up with their names. When I create the characters, A LOT of thought goes into it. For this week’s post, I…
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My First Friend, Nick, and the Importance of Play
When talking about Super Penguin, I’m frequently asked, “How do you come up with this stuff?” or “Where do these ideas come from?” My responses are usually “I don’t know, I just do,” and ” I don’t know where they…
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Meeting J. Lee at Indy PopCon
Last week, Super Penguin made its first convention appearance at Indy PopCon. While we were there, I had the pleasure of meeting actor, J. Lee. J is best known for his role as Chief Commander John LaMarr on the Hulu…
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Perspective
I’ve been really working on being more of a “half glass full” kind of guy. Today I feel like I was tested on this, and I feel like I passed. I sold 3 books today for day one of Indy…
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Life Lessons from Robin Williams
This week, I was struggling to come up with a subject for my “Life Lessons” series. I sat at my desk, thinking and thinking and then I looked up. Above my desk is an 11×14 poster with one of my…
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Life Lessons From My Friend, Mike Hulvey
For Week 3 of the me sharing the wisdom shared with me series, I wanted to talk about my friend Mike. I previously mentioned Mike two weeks ago when I talked about my friend, Bob Kay and he’s absolutely worth…
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Life Lessons from Mom
Happy Mother’s Day! I hope all the moms reading this have a wonderful day! Continuing with my May theme of lessons I’ve learned from important people, I thought it would be fitting to talk about one of the most influential…
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Advice from my friend, Bob Kay
Coming up with topics to write about for this blog is tricky. I frequently spend more time thinking about what to write than actually writing it. Even after a 2-week blogging break with Easter and then a podcast appearance, I…
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