tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652646370209564692024-03-05T12:50:40.738-08:00Of mice and moiPrudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-87694025479800255302015-11-29T10:28:00.002-08:002015-11-29T10:28:53.970-08:00Mousenet (sorry, Muis.Net) is in Dutch<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-16740911069366445812015-11-21T10:54:00.002-08:002015-11-21T10:54:40.995-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Mouse Mission<br />
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While I was away from this blog Mousemobile was anointed the Honor Book for the Green Earth Award, which seems to mean second place.<br />
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And Mouse Mission just came out! For this third book in the series, the Mouse Nation turns its attention to the plight of rain forests, and in particular one on a remote island nation in the Indian Ocean. Can mice save it from the ruthless timber company, Loggocorp? It depends partly on what the mice (and their humans) can find out on a trip to England, and not just any old part of England, but the palace of an eccentric duke.<br />
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Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-15349656281256381062013-09-29T07:59:00.001-07:002013-09-29T07:59:29.469-07:00Good things come in threes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a great week for the Mouse Nation:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Mousemobile</b> will be in bookstores on Tuesday, October 1st.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have just found out that <b>Mousenet</b> was nominated for the Magnolia Award for 2014. That's the Mississippi children's choice award, to go with Mousenet's nominations in Florida and Arizona.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hyperion-Disney has just agreed to publish Book Three of the series: <b>Mouse Mission</b>!</span></li>
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Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-78617301453319645362013-09-01T12:41:00.006-07:002013-09-01T12:41:55.019-07:00A medal!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYeaw3M5A40eW4rWbOPU5iboZDGSYZtqXrnxW3XqB-ibBHih8WKNiaWQ5iOTxuJNbYu1eAKfa4vrYugyXG3ZkokVGiBY0VcUkxC9U6Y5HNuXgy_GiC0BL-IVaPGtYXHI2bsaPxo_AyvXU/s1600/silver-shiny-web.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYeaw3M5A40eW4rWbOPU5iboZDGSYZtqXrnxW3XqB-ibBHih8WKNiaWQ5iOTxuJNbYu1eAKfa4vrYugyXG3ZkokVGiBY0VcUkxC9U6Y5HNuXgy_GiC0BL-IVaPGtYXHI2bsaPxo_AyvXU/s1600/silver-shiny-web.png" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MOUSENET has won silver in the 2013 Readers Favorite awards–second place in the category 'Children–F</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">antasy/Sci-Fi.' </span></div>
Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-71263505679596271042013-08-26T15:50:00.001-07:002013-08-26T16:06:51.930-07:00Kirkus review of Mousemobile<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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to legal proceedings, remains enchantingly believable. Closing the book,
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Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-74025365638139105042013-08-24T18:12:00.000-07:002013-08-24T18:12:04.818-07:00A new date for Mousemobile<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For months, the official publication date for Mousemobile was October 15th, but the publisher has decided to bring it out a couple of weeks early. It will be here October 1st. Yay!</span></div>
Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-11136101509787093032013-08-03T09:59:00.000-07:002013-08-03T09:59:14.315-07:00A guest blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm guest-blogging this week on the site run by Ginny Rorby, whose YA book "Lost in the River of Grass" won the Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award last spring. Find her blog at http://grorby.blogspot.com/. Oh, and it's about what it feels like to have a first book published.</span></div>
Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-17698569186457982852013-07-22T09:38:00.001-07:002013-07-22T09:38:09.856-07:00Double oops<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Seems the reprint is back on Amazon - the "out of stock" of an hour ago must have been a glitch on their part. Whew.</div>
Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-21988451864549538872013-07-22T07:57:00.001-07:002013-07-22T07:57:12.596-07:00Oops<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now Amazon says the 'Mousenet' paperback is temporarily out of stock again (see last post)! That was quick. They must have got cleaned out of their stock overnight, filling back-orders. But they should be able to restock fast - and Barnes & Noble has it.</span></div>
Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-16422790600733743062013-07-21T20:18:00.002-07:002013-07-21T20:18:56.838-07:00it's back!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrmiDKBj-I4f1i8bNYv7ZS11pfqN_I4KzkaLKucJtWXz2JGihYPauMqT-hh8pLa6K-JL9XkGh4BsoSlDmC2Gi0_Vy03mryZ1q8sDhBdNQMuGE2fzLxlCJMUMwfm1egn0OQRPcYk7HHECg/s1600/old.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrmiDKBj-I4f1i8bNYv7ZS11pfqN_I4KzkaLKucJtWXz2JGihYPauMqT-hh8pLa6K-JL9XkGh4BsoSlDmC2Gi0_Vy03mryZ1q8sDhBdNQMuGE2fzLxlCJMUMwfm1egn0OQRPcYk7HHECg/s200/old.jpg" width="131" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The paperback of 'Mousenet' has been reprinted and is now back on Amazon (and other sites) after a few weeks' pause. So here's a challenge. See how fast you can make it sell out again. (Then do the same for 'Mousemobile' when it comes out October 15th.)</span></div>
Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-36504308347079784832013-07-12T10:02:00.000-07:002013-07-12T10:02:23.238-07:00Travels with Feet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKzQtV0ACcusKzXmgespCLNt4LI-F280HKx1J3_z8IIfeEAc3AGRLT1kFKgOvXNP6f1VUX0KVtZzIZ8pQvjWO-IfCBYLYc0XUMCz2jkfi3RecxXXpbFVBnI-F8ZfmwRE5EQW1HuT3nvvU/s1600/feet+pyramids.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKzQtV0ACcusKzXmgespCLNt4LI-F280HKx1J3_z8IIfeEAc3AGRLT1kFKgOvXNP6f1VUX0KVtZzIZ8pQvjWO-IfCBYLYc0XUMCz2jkfi3RecxXXpbFVBnI-F8ZfmwRE5EQW1HuT3nvvU/s320/feet+pyramids.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not one of those to put endless pictures of myself on the Internet when I travel: I prefer to photograph my feet. Click here for the latest <a href="http://mousenet.org/about-prudence-breitrose/travels-with-feet-2/" target="_blank">travels with feet</a> on the website I share with the Mouse Nation–www.mousenet.org.</span></div>
Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-46763112668520267802013-07-07T11:38:00.000-07:002013-07-07T12:46:44.394-07:00Father of Mice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: #F2F9F8; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Mice are in mourning over the death of the well-known human Douglas
Engelbart, the Stanford researcher who invented the computer mouse. Professor
Engelbart played a very important role in the history of the Mouse Nation. If
there had been no computer mouse I would not have had a dream that confused
computer mice with the real thing, then I would not have written Mousenet,
which would mean that the Nation never got the attention from humans that it
deserves.</span>.</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-47471360465878243432013-07-01T17:54:00.000-07:002013-07-01T17:54:41.809-07:00Finalist for an Award<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5rLmqM_XGJSCFaMvbgZJBTds3dUJNzcGQypSG36CMVkLOyj0pjLtSV3yc9hgPBBHJu0cJNQBZXODBtTvXBZQG6k8t9w2k5CWKPxks6wM9EFrdYSye-9prnTRftsiuP0byU5OJoJmZCh8/s144/finalist-shiny-web.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5rLmqM_XGJSCFaMvbgZJBTds3dUJNzcGQypSG36CMVkLOyj0pjLtSV3yc9hgPBBHJu0cJNQBZXODBtTvXBZQG6k8t9w2k5CWKPxks6wM9EFrdYSye-9prnTRftsiuP0byU5OJoJmZCh8/s144/finalist-shiny-web.png" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mousenet is one of six finalists for the Readers' Favorite Award given each year for children's books in the Science Fiction/Fantasy category. Final results will be out on September 1st.</span></div>
Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-70504378216588752752013-06-28T13:50:00.000-07:002013-06-28T13:50:37.556-07:00She speaks, she speaks!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did a recording for a site that has authors tell the world something about their names, and how they acquired them. So click <a href="http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronounce.cgi?aid=20685" target="_blank">here</a> to find out how to pronounce me.</span></div>
Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-48509487132384472482013-06-25T07:53:00.004-07:002013-06-25T07:54:36.321-07:00Mousenet reprinted<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFyse4rXb_7dGu3-I4-pBkcMpikfzE3e7ihOPXqxQCpPIcEtLmW42cQpMy-Ae9cyLPWy9Pc8T9zjuj7hcbNhh7dw01yrwlTsXKZXKQRS061Ew2zRNS2dq5C2K8lFV1nBl5UMxsNNf-kRA/s1600/old.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFyse4rXb_7dGu3-I4-pBkcMpikfzE3e7ihOPXqxQCpPIcEtLmW42cQpMy-Ae9cyLPWy9Pc8T9zjuj7hcbNhh7dw01yrwlTsXKZXKQRS061Ew2zRNS2dq5C2K8lFV1nBl5UMxsNNf-kRA/s200/old.jpg" width="131" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have you been thinking of buying the Mousenet paperback from Amazon, or Barnes & Noble? And been put off by the fact that Amazon says it's "usually" available in one to two months, and Barnes & Noble gives the date of July 31st?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take heart. The publisher tells me they're both wrong, and the reprint of Mousenet will be available in "early July." </span></div>
Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-15844935908381904752013-06-19T11:22:00.000-07:002013-06-19T11:22:37.054-07:00Mice Over Miami<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I don’t often disagree with
mice but we have a conflict over the NBA finals.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I can’t help wanting the Spurs to win, but mice are rooting
for Miami. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Why? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">They have long been concerned about Florida, because
it’s so vulnerable to the effects of climate change. And they’ve been even more
passionately pro-Florida ever since </span><i style="font-family: Arial;">Mousenet</i><span style="font-family: Arial;">
was nominated for the Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award, to be voted on next
spring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">You don’t suppose. . .
Couldn’t be, could it? Say it ain’t so. When at the very end of Game Six it
almost looked as if some powerful force had made its way into the officials’ heads?
Into the Spurs’ suddenly clumsy hands? Snatching defeat from the jaws of
victory? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Mouse Nation at work? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-20048758494855944612013-06-17T09:10:00.001-07:002013-06-17T09:10:44.256-07:00Scarcity value<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 21.6pt;">Yikes! The Mousenet paperback is all sold out at Amazon, and on the Barnes & Noble website, which says they won't have it until the end of July (when the reprint kicks in). But don’t despair, Mousenet fans. You may find it in stores–and the hardcover version is still available on-line.</span></div>
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Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-57100229316729160852013-06-05T10:08:00.002-07:002013-06-05T10:08:50.640-07:00Readers' awards<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The
Big Cheese wouldn’t turn up his nose at any award, but it’s deeply gratifying to
be nominated for <i>readers’</i> awards. The
book gets read and judged and lobbied for and voted on by real kids! Hordes of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Mousenet
has now been nominated for its second of these awards: the Grand Canyon Reader
Award in Arizona. Voting happens next spring for the favorite among ten
intermediate books published in the last five years. Yay!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-78021454782894575252013-05-24T09:01:00.000-07:002013-05-24T09:13:12.158-07:00Mousenet reviews<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: Arial;"><br />
Just got a wonderful review by Jen Robinson on her <a href="http://jkrbooks.typepad.com/blog/2013/05/mousenet-prudence-breitrose.html" target="_blank">Book Page site.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: Arial;">Not wonderful in the sense that she loved everything about the book (she had
some reservations) but she read the @#$!! thing, and thought about it, and gave
her review the sort of care and detail that one would wish for in – oh, I don’t
know – maybe an editor?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">This contrasts with another review on a site
that shall be nameless that put the action in Seattle instead of Greenfield,
Oregon, and sent my protagonist to school in Ohio instead of Oregon.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Jen felt that my treatment of climate change
became a bit too dominant at the end of the book, and she’s rightly nervous about messages in
children’s books, though she adds, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">I have admittedly very finely honed radar when it comes to messages inserted into fiction</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">." </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">Others have also been a little uneasy with the climate change element, but I just came across a review on the site of
</span><a href="http://climatetoday.org/?p=3608%E2%80%8E" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Climate Toda</span>y</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> that takes a different view:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: Arial;"><br />
“This children’s book is a very soft approach to the topic of climate change
for ages 8- 12- maybe a good place to begin. I read and enjoyed it, then passed
it on to a 10 year old girl who couldn’t put it down. The one page (out of
nearly 400) where the strategy is explained makes sense- except we just need
humans to do it! Now!”<br />
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And the reviewer quotes:<br />
<br />
“We can help people save the planet<br />
one opinion leader at a time,<br />
one politician at a time<br />
one family at a time.”<br />
Prudence Breitrose, author</span><br />
<span style="color: #500050; font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">Nice of him to attribute the quote to me. Actually it came
from the Mouse Nation’s advertising agency.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 21.6pt;">One
of the things authors do, of course, is to watch their Amazon sales rank. When
the hardcover of Mousenet first came out at the end of 2011, it checked in at a
respectable 33,000 out of the three million or so books that Amazon deals with.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 21.6pt;">After
the first few weeks, it settled back into six figures, where it chugged along
quite cheerfully, with a big boost towards the low end of that range when the
paperback came out last February.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 21.6pt;">So
there we were on a Nile cruise ship where you had to pay through the nose for
fifteen minutes of Internet. I used some of that expensive time to check up on
the old mouse and could hardly believe it. That day, 14,000. The next, 11,000.
Yesterday, under 5,000 and change. Suddenly, the mouse has roared.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 21.6pt;">No,
it’s not because kid word-of-mouth has suddenly made my book the next big
thing–it’s the Florida effect. The Sunshine State Young Reader Award. Every
year, third through fifth-graders select their favorite book from a list of
fifteen–and Mousenet is on the list. Yay!</span></div>
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Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-50115220215155756992013-03-23T07:52:00.000-07:002013-06-07T10:40:51.882-07:00Things to do as a late bloomer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">I’ve added to my list
of things to do while being, shall we say, mature. The list already had first and second books, with
two more in the works, and learning to ski.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 21.6pt;">Then there was that scene on Highway 280. . .</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 21.6pt;">Okay, I knew I was
going too fast as I overtook some slow cars, but didn’t realize<i> how</i> fast until I saw
the Highway Patrol car, half-hidden, ready to pounce. That’s when I looked at
my speedometer. Eighty. I slowed down, of course, and thought I might get away
with it, but no–that lovely display of flashing lights came looming up in my
rear view mirror. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 21.6pt;">I’m not proud of my
speeding ticket, but it was kind of nice to hear the cop say–when I asked–that
catching, shall we say, mature ladies in Priuses didn’t happen to him very often, if ever.</span></div>
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Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-48132564718385228222013-02-27T10:56:00.002-08:002013-02-27T10:56:38.813-08:00The Right to Bare Arms<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; line-height: 21.6pt;">I
have a complaint about one aspect of television that is quite small in the
scheme of things, but (in the view of mice) could set the wrong example when it
comes to burning up heating fuel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; line-height: 21.6pt;"> It’s
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; line-height: 21.6pt;"> What’s
the message–that intelligent and successful women should dress for summer all
year round, and to hell with the thermostat? </span></div>
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Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-71800765428284599692013-02-17T10:01:00.002-08:002013-02-17T10:01:31.483-08:00All the Mice for Half the Price! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Next Tuesday </span><span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> is a big day: “Mousenet” gets launched in paperback. Ask for it at your local
bookstore.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">And get ready for
the sequel, “Mousemobile,” which appears on October 15<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-51424343696009852772013-01-24T11:07:00.000-08:002013-01-24T11:07:08.261-08:00Tommy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Here’s Tommy, in a
triple role. As the firstborn of my youngest niece, he’s the newest member of
my family. As a mouse aficionado, he has adopted my totem animal. And as a
Tommy (even if he spells his full name Tomos, as befits a Welshman) he’s a model
for Megan’s new half-brother. That Tommy appears in the book I’m working on now–<i>Mouse Menace</i>. And yes, mice show up in his
crib too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Prudence Breitrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17608640413127775648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665264637020956469.post-54750289990758997462012-12-12T17:06:00.000-08:002012-12-12T17:06:40.610-08:00One way to launch a book<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Why spend an hour on what can be done in three
minutes, give or take? My niece’s husband, the Reverend Canon Dr.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Stephen
Cherry, found a great way to launch his third book, as you can see here: </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande";"> </span></span><a href="http://t.co/U2lU3b8J"><span style="background: white; color: #3b5998; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 8.0pt;">http://t.co/U2lU3b8J</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 8.0pt;">? </span><span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">(Ecclesiastical note: the gentleman in purple
is the Bishop of Durham, who will shortly become the new Archbishop of
Canterbury.)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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