Happy MMGM! Spotlight on the amazing Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder

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Some spotlights are easier to write than others–the books are of a kind people nod their heads over and feel wise for having read.  Other books are just as enjoyable and perhaps better written, but most people will feel a guilty pleasure for having read them and worry that their wise-quota took a hit.  I

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Funny Friday Faceoff: the funny thing about humor writing

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This week in my online humor class, several of us felt a bit like Grumpy Cat does every day– And a few students were even thinking of throwing in the towel.  Not a pretty towel, either.  This towel. Because the truth is that humor writing is hard.  And sometimes humiliating.  Which…is actually kind of funny, when you

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Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: The Cheshire Cheese Cat

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This book was soo much fun!  It really was the kind of book you can’t recommend highly enough–and it’s rather telling that when I brought it home I was already a few pages in ’cause I’d read a bit in the car…and didn’t read another word for several days. How is that high praise, you’d

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