This has happened twice in the past three days. Children have used the Ask Eric page to write to me. They had some excellent questions. I wrote back and my email was promptly returned as undeliverable. Wrong email address. There’s nothing I can do. I have no way to contact them. I want all of [...]
Yow! I just checked my website and realized that I haven’t posted anything since June. What’s going on, Bro? Well, it wasn’t much of a summer. In fact, it’s just about the worst I can remember. My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in June. She underwent surgery twice. The results were even better than [...]
Mating season is over. Pirate ate a big, fat mouse this morning. He didn’t take more than a minute to notice it and grab it. He must have been hungry—especially since he hasn’t eaten anything in a month. I wish people could do that. We could lock ourselves in a closet with a case of [...]
You may have noticed a new format if you’ve recently visited my Kids Ask Eric page. The Ask Eric A Question form has a space at the bottom for a phone number. Why would I want your phone number? Kids write to me from all over the country, even all over the world. The latest [...]
What I like best about my website is that my webmaster Wess set it up so I can do most of the work myself. That means I have to learn the program, solve problems, and figure out how to get the pages the way I want them. Wess will help if I get stuck. Still, [...]
I recently received a rush of letters from children all over the country whose classes are writing to a favorite author. It’s important to me that I answer these letters, or at least respond and acknowledge that I received them. If children go through the trouble of writing a letter, they deserve an answer. However, [...]
Yesterday I blogged about how I planned to experiment with my new text-to-speech program, Dragon Dictate. How did it go? Frustrating at times, but ultimately successful. I sent myself quite a task, getting a new chapter boos started. I wanted to take a picture book manuscript I had written several years ago and expand it [...]
Several of my writer friends have asked me how I go about making the videos in the Hear A Story section of my website. I thought the best way to do it would be to post the process on my blog. That way it would always be here and easy to find. I can’t say [...]
This was a busy summer! One of the most important things I did was sit down with Wess Willis, my webmaster, and talk about the website. I’ve used the same design for more than ten years. It was starting to look cluttered with big blocks of text and long lists of books. Wess told me [...]
