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Adam’s Stepsons Book Giveaway
Enter for a chance to win ONE of TEN copies of the award-winning psychological scifi novellette Adam’s Stepsons! Runs from October 13 to November 15 on Goodreads. Click here for details on the story. Click here to enter!
Adam’s Stepsons – BookWorks Featured Author
BookWorks has selected me as their weekly “Featured Author.” Please check out the BookWorks pages for me and for Adam’s Stepsons, where you will find a free Chapter 1 (PDF). http://bit.ly/2fOVB4X
Adam’s Stepsons Wins Award
It’s official now! Adam’s Stepsons won “Honorable Mention” in the Readers’ Favorites yearly contest in the “Best Short Story/ Novella” category. Stoked! Read the reviews on Readers’ Favorites here: https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/adams-stepsons And don’t forget to enter for a chance to win a Kindle version of the novella! https://readersfavorite.com/giveaway?sort=title (Don’t forget to check out the author’s interview […]
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Tag Archives: bilingualism
The Joy of Reading
We were eager to have books readily available for our kids…and not just available, but in a location where the kids could choose the books they wanted, when they wanted. So we arranged for the cubbyhole built into the staircase in the living room, and we had two small bookcases put into the kids’ play room.
It was up to us to provide the materials… Continue reading
Working Cover
Quick update on the book: In the end, I’ve decided to go the indie route to self-publication. An update to the update! (2/16) It looks like I won’t be self-publishing this one after all. A small press that normally published ESL/EFL … Continue reading
Suku-suku So-dan
Yesterday, my wife and I took our daughter to a city-sponsored health check slash child care consultation (suku-suku so-dan, meaning literally “quick consultation,” from the idiom suku-suku sodatsu, grow quickly or thriving). The event was free of charge for all … Continue reading
The story begins…
I’m an American teaching English full-time in the heartland of Japan. Next year I have applied for paternity leave, making me the first male teacher at my school to do so. This blog will document my experiences raising a bilingual … Continue reading
