USA Today bestselling author Dan Alatorre has 50+ titles published in more than 120 countries and over a dozen languages.
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This has been a great week for me, Dan. I participated in my first Children’s Book Fayre, I participated in a corporate book event and I finished my Halloween poem entry for Aurora’s poetry competition. Not bad for a full time working mom I thought.
I’ve had a great week too. I set my mind to finishing an article which I’ve just submitted to an Editor and generally just feeling good and supported by the Universe. Loved getting lots of things done in my garden too. 🌹🌷
Turned my literary mindset around. If this round of querying doesn’t work out it doesn’t matter because I will either self publish or write other stuff. Querying will not define me as a writer. 💪🏻
I’ve redesigned my blog to start fresh with a clearer goal for each week (the whole one-post-a-year model wasn’t working). I’ve tried reading just one book instead of five at once – it’s certainly helped! I also finalised the design of our Save the Dates earlier this week and, just now, paid the deposit for my wedding band/dj.
Nothing staggering, but little gears that needed to click into place so the bigger machine could work.
One post a year! I wonder what that would be like…
My brag? I host a Young Authors Club as my daughter’s grade school. We have 27 kids writing stories each week, and I type them up to go into a book (anthology) we publish at the end if the year. The brag part is, I was falling behind on my typing and I got somebody on Fiverr to catch me up. Now I’ll be able to print the stories and give the kids a thrill – most haven’t ever seen their words typed before, and it’ll be printed in a 6×9 book format, so it’ll look a lot like the finished product they’re working toward.
If I play my cards right, I can do that while watching some college football…
This year it’s grades 3-8. Last year was the same but we had a prolific second grader whose two older brothers both love to write, and they were in the club, so I let her try it. She did well!
er….I managed not to drop any balls on any toes.
That’s not to say I didn’t drop any balls, I just managed to miss anyone’s toes. ROFL. It’s a huge accomplishment, really, it is.
I managed to complete a blog post again- I’ve been trying to complete it for a week and a half but the lil ones haven’t been cooperative. Not a huge writing win, but I’ll take it! On a non-writing note, this week was the first time that I felt like the children’s choir I’m directing will be ready for the big joint choral event that’s coming up…way, way too fast.
The proof for my new book is winging its way to my front door! The next book is coming along nicely. The next book is just about done AND the book due out in February 2018 has a cover I love!
Dan Alatorre 
This has been a great week for me, Dan. I participated in my first Children’s Book Fayre, I participated in a corporate book event and I finished my Halloween poem entry for Aurora’s poetry competition. Not bad for a full time working mom I thought.
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Awesome! You deserve a cookie. Maybe you should tell us about doing the event.
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I’ve had a great week too. I set my mind to finishing an article which I’ve just submitted to an Editor and generally just feeling good and supported by the Universe. Loved getting lots of things done in my garden too. 🌹🌷
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Wow, writing AND gardening! You’re gonna make people jealous. Great job! What was the article about?
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Haha, dunno about that! It was a travel piece on a place we visited last weekend called Yackandandah.
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Nice! Good luck
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Thanks Dan.
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Turned my literary mindset around. If this round of querying doesn’t work out it doesn’t matter because I will either self publish or write other stuff. Querying will not define me as a writer. 💪🏻
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😊😊😊
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Without really trying to, I’ve started reading again. Vampires, suspense, historical…everything. Feels very nice. 🙂
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And just in time for Halloween!
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I’ve redesigned my blog to start fresh with a clearer goal for each week (the whole one-post-a-year model wasn’t working). I’ve tried reading just one book instead of five at once – it’s certainly helped! I also finalised the design of our Save the Dates earlier this week and, just now, paid the deposit for my wedding band/dj.
Nothing staggering, but little gears that needed to click into place so the bigger machine could work.
What’s your brag, Dan?
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One post a year! I wonder what that would be like…
My brag? I host a Young Authors Club as my daughter’s grade school. We have 27 kids writing stories each week, and I type them up to go into a book (anthology) we publish at the end if the year. The brag part is, I was falling behind on my typing and I got somebody on Fiverr to catch me up. Now I’ll be able to print the stories and give the kids a thrill – most haven’t ever seen their words typed before, and it’ll be printed in a 6×9 book format, so it’ll look a lot like the finished product they’re working toward.
If I play my cards right, I can do that while watching some college football…
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I love this project! It’s so powerful for kids to see their writing in a ‘real’ format- great brag.
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Thank you!
The first time I did it was last year. We started in January.
By the end of the semester, the parents were amazed at the book their children had produced.
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What grade level? (If you don’t mind me asking 🙂 )
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This year it’s grades 3-8. Last year was the same but we had a prolific second grader whose two older brothers both love to write, and they were in the club, so I let her try it. She did well!
The year-end signing party was a blast.
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You should think about one of your short fiction pieces in our next Word Weaver Writing Contest.
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Maybe 🙂 We’ll see if I have anything I like well enough to enter (and if I have the guts to follow through lol!)
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alas I am without accomplishment this week…I think…..
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Sometimes when the crap is coming down really hard, just getting through to the weekend is an accomplishment.
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It actually was an excellent week but none of my writing goals were met
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Have you posted A comment on this blog before?
If not, that’s an accomplishment.
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One of my books had a fantastic review posted this week! Here is the link if anyone would like to see – plus there is a link near the bottom for The Box Under the Bed. If you comment on the blog, you can win a signed copy of Dickon’s Diaries! 🙂
https://beforethesecondsleep.wordpress.com/2017/10/02/book-review-dickons-diaries-with-giveaway/
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Awesome!
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er….I managed not to drop any balls on any toes.
That’s not to say I didn’t drop any balls, I just managed to miss anyone’s toes. ROFL. It’s a huge accomplishment, really, it is.
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Definitely worth celebrating! Good job.
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I managed to complete a blog post again- I’ve been trying to complete it for a week and a half but the lil ones haven’t been cooperative. Not a huge writing win, but I’ll take it! On a non-writing note, this week was the first time that I felt like the children’s choir I’m directing will be ready for the big joint choral event that’s coming up…way, way too fast.
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Hey, my kid sings in glee club. Getting a bunch a little kids to all sing at the same time is not as easy as one might think. Congratulations!
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AND in parts, lol 🙂 Thanks!
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The proof for my new book is winging its way to my front door! The next book is coming along nicely. The next book is just about done AND the book due out in February 2018 has a cover I love!
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Hooray!!
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