Hello everyone,
I'm back!
Wow! What a few busy months I’ve had. My teaching job took over for a while. Interacting with my Brazilian students and showing them around Toronto, I certainly had my cardio-work out. We usually were walking and traveling the TTC from about 1 pm to six or seven pm, 6 days a week. I showed them, the CN Tower, ROM, Casa Loma, AGO, China Town to name a few places. And, of course we went shopping. Hunting for bargains- a great pastime
It was fun to show them around town, sharing interesting stories and other tid-bits about our great city. Now that they are back in Brazil, I’m back to my usual routine.
I have been very busy with the development of my next book “Freddy’s French Fries Fiasco which will be published by end of April, beginning of May.
Of course tax season is also upon us, so preparing for my tax guys kept me hopping as well.
Now I’m working on a new web-site and preparing my media visibility. Writing, editing and preparing my third book is now scheduled. My next book, “The Friendly Big Blue Bed Monster is a book for younger children aged 3-5 years old. I will introduce The Big Blue Bed Monster soon.
The anticipation of getting “Freddy’s French Fries Fiasco” published is very exciting. I had a few parents and children read it this is what they had to say.
This is what two moms had to say about “Freddy's French Fries Fiasco”:
Freddy’s French Fries Fiasco has it all!! It is filled with great lessons from eating healthy, getting exercise, working hard towards your goals to the benefits of great friends who are there to support and help you when you need it most. It contains loads of adventure and keeps you riveted to the very end. A great book for any parent to share with their children.
P. Neill
A Mom
Freddy and his three friends are very cute role-models. They have shown my two children the value of friendship, supporting each other. Freddy and his friends have given my kids an incentive to eat properly. Don’t get me wrong, we still eat French fries, but now my children have set their own menu during the week and they voluntarily decided to cut back on the french fries. “Freddy’s French Fries Fiasco” has a fun approach to eating well. Thanks DiDi, for such a fun and helpful tool.
A mom of two fantastic children
I'd like to invite you to join my page for Freddy's French Fries Fiasco at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Toronto-ON/Freddys-French-Fries-Fiasco/192410934833
There you will also see -in their original writing what a few children had to say about Freddy's French Fries Fiasco
Hope to see you there.
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Introducing Minou de la Rue and her Friends
As I continue to work on publishing Freddys French Fries Fiasco, I am already working on my next book, Minou de la Rue and her Friends. That is the working title, as I am not sure how it will develop. My books end up telling me what their titles will be once they are ready.
As a professional writer, I usually start with the development of the story itself, as if I need to write what I saw in my mind. The characters talk to me, telling my what they want to do.
This time, I am starting my next book with the development of the characters. It seems to be the right thing to do with Minou de la Rue. Let me introduce you to Minou and some of her friends.
Minou is an adventurous cat who enjoys life and meeting all her friends, animal and human a like. She is a very beautiful gray cat with long fluffy fur and great big green coloured almond shaped eyes. In one of her adventures, when she was very young, she hurt her tail, and now it flops down to her side. She is very proud of this goofy tail and prances around proudly showing it off.
She meets Ausland, a big dog, who is very protective of her, when she is looking for adventures.
Nozum is her brother, who teaches her a lot about life, as he is older than she is. Minou does not always listen.
Minou meets up with Ricki the Raccoon, who loves to wander through the night and find treasures. His mother is always close by to protect him and Ricki is a little bit rebellious.
She also meets a new cat on the block. His name is Harley. He is a very excitable and rambunctious little cat who already writes about his life on his blog, harleysadeventures.blogspot.com.
There are a few more characters that are developing, they are still maturing.
I will keep you posted and introduce you to the rest of the characters when they are ready.
As a professional writer, I usually start with the development of the story itself, as if I need to write what I saw in my mind. The characters talk to me, telling my what they want to do.
This time, I am starting my next book with the development of the characters. It seems to be the right thing to do with Minou de la Rue. Let me introduce you to Minou and some of her friends.
Minou is an adventurous cat who enjoys life and meeting all her friends, animal and human a like. She is a very beautiful gray cat with long fluffy fur and great big green coloured almond shaped eyes. In one of her adventures, when she was very young, she hurt her tail, and now it flops down to her side. She is very proud of this goofy tail and prances around proudly showing it off.
She meets Ausland, a big dog, who is very protective of her, when she is looking for adventures.
Nozum is her brother, who teaches her a lot about life, as he is older than she is. Minou does not always listen.
Minou meets up with Ricki the Raccoon, who loves to wander through the night and find treasures. His mother is always close by to protect him and Ricki is a little bit rebellious.
She also meets a new cat on the block. His name is Harley. He is a very excitable and rambunctious little cat who already writes about his life on his blog, harleysadeventures.blogspot.com.
There are a few more characters that are developing, they are still maturing.
I will keep you posted and introduce you to the rest of the characters when they are ready.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
My personal outlook of life
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak in front of a fine audience. In my speech, I approached my philosophy of life.
As a 10 years old, I had an epiphany. I realized that life was one great big adventure after another. I envisioned my life and saw great adventures ahead and I wanted to experience them them head-on.
And that I've done! There have been exciting adventures, happy adventures, dangerous ones, sad and unhappy ones and just plain fun adventures.
With the happy, exciting and fun adventures I, of course, wanted to be able to live them forever and never let it end. But with the unhappy and sad times I wanted to speed up time to get through it. In those dismal days, I always kept in mind "This too shall pass"
As a writer, I have been able to see adventures in all nooks and crannies of my life bring them into existence and sharing them with others in my short stories, plays and books. I have been able to create and "meet" a number of characters.
Soon, I will introduce you to my latest character, Freddy. A young bird, who ate too many french fries and it too heavy to fly. With his little friends, Alfie, Jeanie and Robby, he has some very exciting adventures while he loses his big belly and learns how to fly again.
Please stay tuned!
As a 10 years old, I had an epiphany. I realized that life was one great big adventure after another. I envisioned my life and saw great adventures ahead and I wanted to experience them them head-on.
And that I've done! There have been exciting adventures, happy adventures, dangerous ones, sad and unhappy ones and just plain fun adventures.
With the happy, exciting and fun adventures I, of course, wanted to be able to live them forever and never let it end. But with the unhappy and sad times I wanted to speed up time to get through it. In those dismal days, I always kept in mind "This too shall pass"
As a writer, I have been able to see adventures in all nooks and crannies of my life bring them into existence and sharing them with others in my short stories, plays and books. I have been able to create and "meet" a number of characters.
Soon, I will introduce you to my latest character, Freddy. A young bird, who ate too many french fries and it too heavy to fly. With his little friends, Alfie, Jeanie and Robby, he has some very exciting adventures while he loses his big belly and learns how to fly again.
Please stay tuned!
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