Justin Matott's Blog, page 18

WHAT?????

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1889191205/ref=sr_1_3_olp?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286396710&sr=1-3&condition=used

Every so often a guy just has to google himself. I was looking for some reviews to send to an agent I am corresponding with and came across this page on amazon.com

This book sells for $19 and though there are dangerously few of the first book in the series, who would expect to spend five times that? Sure, it is a limited printing and will someday be worth more because I plan to be really famous.

I mean, it is being reillustrated and will come out with a totally different look, so the original is harder and harder to find, but come on, the cheapest copy is $113????? The most expensive is $201.67???? AND they are all used.

You can still get it on my website for $19 plus $3 for shipping, but I am thinking of selling the last two cases I have on amazon for $99.99 each, what do you think?

Is there something I don't know? Did the author expire? Back to googling to see what is going on!

LOVE THAT DOG!

THE BIG QUESTION!

I have heard the BIG question posed at EVERY writer's conference I have been to that included picture books.

I have been asked the BIG question numerous times by many aspiring authors and illustrators and never really had a good answer because it is subjective and depends on the editor in question.

I have however answered it before after hearing an agent say, "It is much easier for an editor to dismiss the work if they like the illustration but not the story or vice-versa. It is just...

Coming to a school near you?

This time of year kids go door to door selling "coupon cards", magazines, cookie dough, wrapping paper etc... to raise money for technology and other worthy causes. NOW, something really useful; have your school send out a flyer offering all of Matott's book signed and personalized for gift giving or just reading, and 20% will be contributed to your school. Everyone wins! Sell 100+ books and you will automatically have your school entered into a promotion to get a free school day visit with...

WHAT TO DO?

In the past month I have won four international lotteries in countries I have nothing to do with, HOW LUCKY AM I? I have been offered three jobs in Canada by Asian firms that need my "financial knowledge and ability to handle large sums of money (so strange because I needed a tutor in college to pass my finance and accounting classes being non math inclined) that can flow through my own bank account, in which I can keep, get this "90% of all collections, some amounting in the past year to...

The Gabriel Book Of World Records is OUT TODAY!

Gabriel Peters and his friends set out to attain their positions in history between the pages of the coveted record book through many attempts at the absurd (The World's Largest Spit Pool) to the simply unattainable (World's Largest Frog Farm). Gabe and his friends are up to their usual mischief. Along with the attempts to get into the book, a whole bunch of other adventures are included; a new member to the Secret Brotherhood named T-Bone Garza, Glenn The Sea Monkey comics begin, the...

A tribute to those who LIVE life to the MAX!

After posting the other day about my buddy in a wheelchair, a friend who saw my blog sent me this clip and informed me that wheelchair is one word, not two, who knew?

Please watch this, it is inspirational and the next time I feel like complaining about a sore muscle or something minimal, I will come back here and watch this video!

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI_N5T3pmxQ&feature=player_embedded

What did you do today to add some excitement to your life?

Last night... magic...

I did a talk for a group of kids, teachers and parents at a school I have visited numerous times not far from my house. It was a pleasant evening as I mingled in the library and then was eagerly greeted by a young girl who clutched her copy of Ol' Lady Grizelda, which I had signed for her five years ago, when she "was a little kid, in 3rd grade" and now she was in middle school and "still really liked the book". She insisted I update her copy with another note and signature and then infor...

Dear Alyssa,

http://alyssacares.org/alyssas-story.htm

Many of my pursuits and daily interactions are guided by the wisdom from parents who desire the very best for their children. Specifically my mother taught me on many occasions to "go out there and be a plus and never a minus'. It is very simple math. If you think about every "transaction" with another human as adding rather than subtracting it is really simple to know what to do. Never being good in math, I have always understood...

Just Peachy, but the squirrels are STILL the PITS!

About five years ago someone kindly gave me a box of Palisade Peaches (awesome) from the western slope of Colorado and I saved all of the pits.

I pushed the pits down into composted soil around my vegetable garden as I had seen my father do when I was a boy.

I now have seven peach trees growing in my yard and four of them are HEAVY with peaches!

This is our second HUGE year of enjoying a HUGE yield of peaches here in mid-August and they are EVERY bit as good as the original peaches we got from...