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Happy 29th Birthday, Son!

Posted April 6, 2019April 6, 2019 adminLeave a commentPosted in Adirondack Kids® Blogs

This week on April 4, was Justin’s 29th birthday. How fast the years go by! What follows is a brief pictorial history of the past three decades with some highlights of 19 of those years researching, writing, speaking – and still counting. Happy Birthday, Justin! The annual photo at Moss Lake!   The Early Years. […]

On Gearing Up to Hike!

Posted March 30, 2019March 30, 2019 adminLeave a commentPosted in Adirondack Kids® Blogs

What adventures do you have lined up for the spring, summer and fall hiking seasons? It has been more than a decade since finishing the Adirondack’s 46 highest peaks and this season I [Gary] will be off the trails with 19 bushwhacks remaining to finish the Adirondack’s 100 highest mountains. Among the things I have […]

The Glamour of Being a Self-Published Author

Posted March 16, 2019March 16, 2019 adminLeave a commentPosted in Adirondack Kids® Blogs

So… you become a photographer because you love to take pictures. You start a community newspaper because you love to write. You coach because you love teaching kids. But like most dream jobs, there are lots of not-so-romantic duties that always come with the territory. And you soon discover how few hours you actually get […]

Raptor Expert Gives Flight To Children’s Book Series

Posted March 2, 2019March 2, 2019 adminPosted in Adirondack Kids® Blogs

While my son, Justin, and I have been working on the 19th book of The Adirondack Kids® series of children’s books, a good friend of ours has just released his first! The Snowy Owl Caper was written by Mark Manske, a true expert on birds prey. For nearly twenty years Mark was a science teacher […]

Rescue on Bald Mountain, A Helicopter & The Third ‘R’

Posted February 3, 2019February 3, 2019 adminLeave a commentPosted in Adirondack Kids® Blogs

If we were to title our main presentation when asked to speak, we would call it The 3 R’s: Reading, (w)Riting & Relationships. And that is not because Justin and I are both terrible at ‘Rithmatic! It is the third R that has been the richest and most rewarding during our near 20-year literary sojourn. […]

“Where do you get your story ideas?”

Posted January 21, 2019February 3, 2019 adminLeave a commentPosted in Adirondack Kids® Blogs

Among the most asked questions we receive when doing presentations has to do with where we get ideas for our stories and if we are worried we will run out of ideas. The answer to the first question is that we get our story ideas from a variety of sources. Among them?   Personal experience. […]

“So, You Want to Write a Book for Children?”

Posted January 11, 2019January 11, 2019 adminLeave a commentPosted in Adirondack Kids® Blogs

One of the questions we are asked most often when doing presentations among adults is how to get a book published. That is a great question and with the stigma  that for years was attached to self-publishing all but disappeared, the answer is not at all as clear as it once was. Last week we […]

“Happy New Year” – What’s Ahead in 2019!

Posted January 5, 2019January 11, 2019 adminLeave a commentPosted in Adirondack Kids® Blogs

  the Road Again: 1 School – 1 Book Dates for our winter and spring school visits are filling up fast! We are also booking for autumn and winter of 2019-20 Among schools we are looking forward to visiting in early 2019 are Port Leyden and Glenfield Elementary schools; Hastings Mallory Elementary School; Kensington Road […]

The Christmas Book Flood

Posted December 16, 2018December 16, 2018 adminLeave a commentPosted in Adirondack Kids® Blogs

It happens every year in Iceland when some 70 percent of the people who live there receive a physical book (no e-books) as a gift on Christmas Eve. It’s called, Jolabokaflod, and the way the tradition is described, people read their new books Christmas Eve throughout the night while eating chocolate or sipping a non-alcoholic […]

This is The Adirondack Kids® Christmas Special and our final special until 2019!

Posted December 8, 2018December 8, 2018 adminLeave a commentPosted in Adirondack Kids® Blogs

Meanwhile we are working on The Adirondack Kids® #19: Phantom of the Talus Caves. Our main distributor to retail outlets is North Country Books in Utica, New York and this week we were asked for a few sentences for the book description to put in North Country’s 2019 catalogue. Here it is: How the familiar […]

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