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I Really Want a Puppy is a Finalist for the Indie Book Award

We just found out that I Really Want A Puppy was a finalist for the Indie Book Award. It was a group effort between these four people!

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If you are wondering about why we needed musicians to publish this book, the book has a QR code on the front that sings the entire book to you. I wrote the book, Isidro Xilonzóchitl illustrated it, Christine Anfossie wrote the original  music, Becky Mcguigan rescored and rearranged the music, adding backup, guitar instrumentation and her own vocalization of the lyrics, and the Indie Book Awards rewarded us by declaring us finalists for the award. A real group effort, and I’d like to thank all those friends who made it possible. 

You can find out more about the book and buy it if you wish by going here: https://bit.ly/3SIJzZC 

The winner has already been announced. The Puppy book was one of the four other finalists.

Look what I just received in the mail!!

I didn’t know they awarded gold medals to anyone except Olympians…but guess you can get them for nimble fingers and a nimble mind as well! I was a finalist in the memoir category. This one isn’t real gold, by the way! It set me to wondering if the Olympic medals are real gold. This is what I learned: According to the International Olympic Committee, Olympic gold medals are required to be at least 92.5 percent silver, and are plated with about 6 grams of pure gold.