I think this will bring a curl to your lip…you tell me whether it’s a smile or a sneer.
I am working on the website for the second book in the Cheesie Mack series: Cheesie Mack Is Cool in a Duel. The book will be released later this month.
In this book, Cheesie wonders…since the word dud is so negative, why would a candy company name its product Milk Duds? Continue reading “Are Milk Duds Duds?”
Several years ago I had an idea for a book about an active, inquisitive ten-year-old boy. His name was Ronald Mack, but his friends all called him Cheesie. I envisioned him as full of life, talkative, smart, and funny…exactly the kind of youngster who’d get into complicated kid situations that would require clever kid thinking to get out of.
I gave him a best friend, Georgie, and loving family…with one exception: an older sister who would be much happier if he’d never been born.
I’m a Californian, and it would have been easy to build his world on the west coast. But as I began to write the first book in what will become a Random House series, Cheesie demanded to live in Massachusetts…Gloucester in particular.
Today that book, Cheesie Mack Is Not a Genius or Anything, appeared on bookshelves across the country.
Cheesie is my little boy, and I held him in my arms this afternoon.