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Phoebe Starts Her Novel:
28 Secrets of the Creative Life E-book

Enjoy the adventures of thirteen-year-old Phoebe Barlow of Gold Strike, California, a precocious artist-to-be who learns important lessons about the creative life through encounters with animal muses, local artists, special teachers, and her own first efforts as a writer.

Perfect for parents, teachers, artists, children (precocious and otherwise) and anyone who dreams of creating, these whimsical tales are serious examinations of the creative life and a loving look into the landscape of the gifted child.

WHAT READERS SAY

Lydia: "I'm an artist and the vice principal of a California Middle School. I read your latest Phoebe story and was completely taken with its message. Phoebe has won my heart!"

Sandra from New Zealand: "I just wanted to let you know that your Phoebe story in the latest Art Calendar Magazine was totally charming. I loved it! Let's have more like this."

Leslie from New York: "Thank you for sharing your latest powerful Phoebe story about Eloise and her stolen piano. This will stay with me!"

Wendy from Oregon: "I LOVE your story of Phoebe. It is the BEST story of a gifted child that I have ever read. It made me cry at the end. Your Phoebe stories should be a book that all young people and adults can read, and it should win the highest awards given to writers for children."

Ann: "I'm sitting here, having just read this month's Phoebe story, weeping at the computer. I didn't know that the lesson in your tale was what I needed to hear. Your story was beautiful, poignant, satisfying, and moving."

Table of Contents

1. The Frog and the Bee Almost Come to Blows
2. Phoebe Chooses
3. Eloise's Piano
4. The Painter With the Painfully Blank Canvas
5. The Composer Who Stole Time From Her Day Job
6. The Teacher Who Played Favorites
7. Phoebe's Amazing Messes
8. The Boy Who Trailed Popcorn
9. Phoebe and the Lost Boy
10. The Girl Who Was Fired From Dance Class
11. The Night Seven Muses Visited
12. Phoebe in Wonderland
13. The Missing Children of the Well-Known Writers
14. Phoebe and the Phobic Sculptor
15. Phoebe's Novel Gets Underway
16. The Substitute Teacher Who Championed Thinking
17. The Jug With The Snarly Lip
18. Phoebe and the Rock Musician
19. The Boy Who Buried His Invention
20. The International Conference of Muses
21. The Writer of Qualities
22. The Concert in the State Capital
23. Phoebe Learns A New Lesson About Obsessions
24. The Frog and the Bee Propose an Amusement
25. The Girl Who Was Regularly Absent
26. The First Day of May
27. The Boy Who Cried "Coyote!"
28. Phoebe's Novel Blooms in the Silence

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