We started writing our kids’ dog books about seven years ago, after our dog, Lucy, died suddenly at the age of 6. To help us overcome our grief, we decided to write a book, “Bash and Lucy Fetch Confidence,” about how a dog named Lucy instilled confidence in the boys on
In our last book, “Bash and Lucy Fetch Team Vera and the Dream Beasts,” Vera is the assistant mayor and the coach of the most successful girls’ soccer team in the town. She’s a dog lover and an inspiration to kids. In our next book, the girl-power grandma and immigrant
While we’ve been in isolation due to Covid-19, Ally, Michael and I have walked nearly every day with our golden retriever, Hudson. Hudson is a character in our third book and did some lively voice-over barking for our last audiobook His deep voice lends itself well to being an audiobook
What have we been doing while staying at home during the COVID-19 crisis? First of all, Michael has been busy reading books recommended by his 21-year-old sister, Ally, who was sent home from college in March. Those books include the Hunger Game series by Suzanne Collins, the Percy Jackson series
For kids now at home due to school closings, we’re offering three free children’s audiobooks, all of which were recorded with the voices of Michael (now age 11), his friends and family members. (Plus his dog!). Our kid voice-over artists range in age from 6-12 in the various audiobooks. All
To celebrate the holidays, we’re offering you three free kids’ audiobooks, all of which were recorded with the voices of Michael (now age 11), his friends and family members. (Plus his dog!). All of the audiobooks are high quality enough to
We were recently invited to be speakers at an author workshop sponsored by Toastmasters, Write Here, Right Now At the workshop, we told the story of why we started our “Bash and Lucy” books about six years ago: We were trying to overcome grief over the death of our golden
We’re excited about the mom-son author visits we have lined up for the fall! Today we autographed and sold our kids’ dog books and audiobooks at a homeschool fair. We were especially excited about sharing information about our audiobooks, which feature the voices of kids age 5 to 13. When
We’re excited that we’ve begun writing the next kids’ dog book in the Bash and Lucy series! Dogs take center stage in this book. We can’t give away too many details, but we can provide a few hints. First of all, the main dog-loving characters are Bash (of course), his
We’ve written about Vera, Michael’s surrogate grandma–an inspiring Ukrainian immigrant. She’s an important character in our latest kidlit book, Bash and Lucy Fetch Team Vera and the Dream Beasts. She’s also a voice-over artist in our latest kids’ audiobook. Vera will appear in Bash and Lucy Book 4, and we’re