QOL - Hey I wrote a book

[swwags]

I love my Grandson and he will be 8 this month. I also have a step granddaughter who will be 18. I decided to write a novella for him. It's a children's fantasy with a bit of sci fi. It's written in the style of RL Stine (Goosebumps, Fright Night) and one of my sons said it had a bit of "Goonies" vibe.

Anyway, he loved it, so I decided a trilogy is in order. If time permits, it's my winter project.

[swwags]

Apparently I'm too stupid to add more than one pic. Here's the back cover.

I've completed the copy write but have not published and don't know if I will. Cole is my grandson. Last names were changed. The family is his real family but with different first names. His friends names were changed as well. I am Pops

Back Cover

[TeleGuy]

Awesome, good for you! Knowing that I won't have as much time with my sixteen-year-old daughter as I wish I would have, and knowing how even at my ripe old age of 68, I still have questions I wish I could have asked my dad, I'm working on an autobiography for my daughter.

It's a great project that I'm working on through the Visible Ink program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and it's living up to its promise of making me happier and giving me pause to look at my life as a whole. I started out writing a collection of stories that got bigger and bigger as I wrote more, and my writing coach eventually said: "why don't you reorganize this and make it an autobiography?" It's kind of like my train layout when I was a kid, a project that will never be finished.

I've created the book for printing by blurb.com, the only place I've found that will print a PDF that you create. My philosophy is that, whenever I reach a checkpoint, I print off a copy so that if I get run over by a train before PCa takes me out, there will be some physical artifact left behind.

[j-o-h-n]

Hey - I read a book

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Tuesday 10/17/2023 5:49 PM DST

[Kaliber in reply to j-o-h-n]

That wasn’t a book, it was the racing form at Aqueduct.

😂😂😂

[j-o-h-n in reply to Kaliber]

My picks don't finish in photo finishes......but more like oil paintings....

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Thursday 10/19/2023 12:46 PM DST

[j-o-h-n]

Thanks, I just figured out that your book is dedicated to me,

since the "ORB" riddle in your book, refers to my ORBituary.

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Tuesday 10/18/2023 6:09 PM DST

[Carlosbach]

Very cool QOL. Very few things bring more QOL time for me than my grandkids, so I get the motivation and think its an amazing idea. Great cover as well. You must be a great Pops.

[dmt1121]

That is great! It inspires me to continue on my book also.

[LongTimeRunning]

Good for you and your grandson!

[swwags]

OK after the edits, I sent it out for some reviews:

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