Strange, Weird and Gruesome History on today’s most common fakes of the head: Popping Eyeballs, Flying Teeth, Hair Rising Toppers, and Squealing Ears!

Ever wondered what historical events influenced our present day use of prosthetic eyes, false teeth, hair pieces and those squealing hearing aids? Popping Eyeballs, Flying Teeth, Hair Rising Toppers, and Squealing Ears! will appeal to your sense of the macabre with some wonderful (and not-so-wonderful) theories and inventions. History isn’t boring. It’s filled with simultaneously [...]

Dog P.I. solves more than a case of dognapping

  The third in the Hercules and Big Bertha Mystery series, Case of Dognapper's Folly, sees our tenacious Dog P.I. hot on the case of multiple dognappings. They aren't just any canines either, but dogs and hounds that take on lawbreakers in post offices, air ports, and other government facilities. Along with Private Investigator Bertha Kowolski [...]

HOW TO WRITE WITH ANIMAL CHARACTERS

When I embarked on my first book involving animal characters, I was steered into reading similar books that soon proved to be dissimilar. Then I sought advice from professional sources:  a professional editor, a representative of a writing guild, a language-arts professor-come-editor, and other successful authors (these last lumped together). Three of the four advised [...]

Long Dog Introduces Hercules the Chihuahua/Terrier in his own story

Hey, have I got news!  My author has just launched The Case of the Duffle Bag Kids, a Hercules and Big Bertha Mystery, another tale told by the dog hero.  It’s for older youth and adults, so you Long Dog readers need to age a little but your older siblings and parents will go crazy [...]

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