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Please join me in welcoming a super lady to Five on Friday…Jean Pamplin. Today, she shares her 3D SUPER PIG Coloring Comic Book. It has large pictures as well as small, so it’s good for younger kids as well as older. Blank pages are also included for the artist to draw their own pictures. Be sure and check it out on Amazon. You’ll find the link at the end of the post.

Five on Friday

You open front door and find penguin wearing a cowboy hat, what does he say?

“I got here as fast as I could.”

Ann: That’s one of the best answers I gotten to that question!

Describe yourself in one word.

“Interested.”

Ann: I think you could have also answered this question…Interesting, because you are a very interesting person!

What is your greatest fear?

There is a perfect book about me in Heaven. Since I haven’t read it, my greatest fear is that I am going to be in the stage of rewrites until I miss the part where I am all I can be and have my arms full of blessings.

Ann: That should be an interesting read!

Last three books read.

1.) The Bible is an ongoing read for me. John 21:25 basically says that the world could not contain the books written if all of Jesus’ deeds/words/actions should be written. I like imagining the unsaid things.

2.) I speed read and love research. So, if I’m reading fiction, it’ll likely be a historically enhanced fiction. One of the three last books I read was Louis L’Amour’s book, Silver Canyon. I confiscated it from my son because I wanted to restudy L’Amour’s style of writing, plus there is a great deal of controversy on how to open a book these days. Is action, dialogue, character or place development more important and what about Point of View?. Why is L’Amour one of the best-read authors of modern times? His settings fairly weep with color and attention to detail. The reader can ride with one strong character both physically and mentally from beginning to end. Good and/or bad choices stitch the work together. It’s a simple life story, with a plot just complicated enough to entertain and an ending that leaves you feeling like you could be a hero too. Walla, a mass market treasure.
In an earlier read of L’Amour’s The Lonesome Gods, his characters point out a writer’s obligation which I reread occasionally for prosperity’s sake.
“…if he is to make a living, he must do more than write. His book must sell, also.”
“…surely the stores will do that!”
“…no doubt they will carry a few copies…but why should they be bought? What is to make somebody come to that store and buy his book of all that are available? He must give them a reason. He must somehow excite their interest, and then the book must hold that interest.”

3.) Dedicated to a Swedish Death Cleanse since reading about it in a Mary Jane’s Farm magazine, I have been trying to take more stuff out of the house than I take in. In wondering why I’d kept a fairly old Historical Romance titled Moonstruck Madness by Laurie McBain, I picked it up and read, recalling that I had taken her idea of a heroine who was subjected to helping her family by becoming a moonlighting robber dressed out as a sword-carrying man. I used that idea in a play concerning coffee where the coffee became the treasure stolen in a time when women were not necessarily allowed the privilege of drinking coffee. The sign of a good book is that it can be entertaining more than once. McBain accomplished that and I set it back on the shelf for perhaps another read down the line.

Name a strong memory from childhood that stuck with you and why.

I dedicate this answer to my younger brother whom I ragged on continuously until one day without my realizing it, he had grown up. In the middle of my usual picking opportunity, he turned around and grabbed me by the collar and lifted me off the ground. I was staring my Waterloo in the face when he suddenly set me back down without giving me my well-deserved award. But I did learn my lesson.

Ann: Sounds like a smart boy!

Share a favorite quote

“Well, I didn’t make you crawl up on the roof.” That from my oldest sister who convinced me at the age of three or so to crawl up on the roof of one of our farm outbuildings. My dad had to crawl up and pry me off the peak. Until quite recently, I didn’t connect that with my unreasonable fear of heights. Of course, another favorite quote expelled from the circle of her laughing mouth was her memory of having hoed into a bumble bee nest. “Boy, you sure did run.” Why is it, you can remember quotes like these?

Ann: I like that you quoted family members. After all, those memories stay with us longer than any quote we might read.

Do you have a secret you’ve never told? Answer yes or no.

Yes, and why would I tell it now?

Ann: Never had this question answered with a “no,” seems we all have secrets.

Jean Pamplin is a founding member of the North East Texas Writer’s Organization and the Franklin County Arts Alliance. Her writing credits include everything from regional books and articles, YA and Vitamin B6 Therapy with Dr. John Ellis. Her latest work is a coloring/comic book with artist David Lopez titled 3D Super Pig.

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/3D-Super-Pig-Coloring-Comic/dp/0999331108
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Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6310274.Jean_Pamplin