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When I'm signing books at schools, I often check to see if a book has gone into a new printing. Much to my surprise, last week I discovered that The Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies had already gone into a second printing, less than two months after release. Tonight, I discovered a great review from Children's Literature. The line that pleased me the most was, "Young readers may well start pouncing on promising story ideas of their own, glad that the short story form is hereby proven to