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4 Stars Chasing Watermelons Kevin White Rex White 32 Pages     Ages: 3 to 6 ……………… Press Release: When Duck opens a crate of watermelons for a watermelon feast, they begin to roll. Duck chases after them. One by one, Duck invites Goat, Pig, Chicken, and Cow to join the chase by promising, “If you help, [...]

Publishers Weekly reports, “Next month Levy Home Entertainment will bring together 20 African-American authors, put them on a bus and shuttle them around to eight Wal-Mart stores in two states over the course of four days for its Soul Expressions Author Tour. The authors from at least 10 publishing houses will board the luxury coach bus and meet readers at stores between Indianapolis and Chicago. Levy has taken this "more is more" approach in promoting writers for seven years now, creating cruise ship vacations wherein authors kick back with readers, and loading authors onto tour buses to visit a string of the mass merchandisers Levy distributes books to, which also includes Kmart.”

My writer friend Wendy French did this a couple of years ago, only it was Ohio and women’s fiction writers. As I remember, she said they had a blast, swimming in the hotel pool and getting a little tipsy at night, and bonding during the day.

Much as I don’t like Wal-Mart (I”ve only been once, just so I could lose my Wal-Mart virginity), this tour still sounds like fun!

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No hiking this week, sadly, as our car is still very much out of commission, but I did finally finish up my "Wheat Wife" painting:

I was going for an earthy look, but I feel like this turned out a bit more drab than I had intended. It was the sort of image that was really cool in my head, but on paper it's just a bit lacking. I had problems with the contrast between the snow and ground. The ground should be really dark from the dampness of melted snow, but it looks too high-contrast if I darken it, so I left it lighter than it really should be.

All of my little old ladies seem to end up looking the same. I guess I should try to diversify.

Well, at least I've got this one out of my head and down on paper. On to something new!