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Listen to today's episode, "Why Dinos Don't Have to Eat Dinos: Life Lessons with Jason Singleton and 'Dino Mike''" as Dad, Fine Dining Server, and Author, Jason Singleton joins Dori Durbin! 

What if a dinosaur developed a moral objection to eating other dinosaurs? 
That's the imaginative question author Jason Singleton posed to himself and led to his debut middle-grade novel, "Dino Mike". On this episode Jason reads his tale of a vegetarian T- Rex and shares how he comes up with character names, handles a full-time job while writing, and incorporating life lessons into his book. While not planning to become a writer, Jason has found blank pages to be pretty comfortable. Jason also talks about:

• Jason's Creative Process
• How Jason Names Characters
• How he handles Full Time Work and Author Life
• Conflicts in "Dino Mike"
• Reading of "Dino Mike"
• Life Lessons Found in Dino Mike
• Who Are the Perfect "Dino Mike" Readers?
• What Were Jason's Author Influences?
• Where to Find Jason and "Dino Mike"

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More About Jason:
Author Jason Singleton never wanted to be a writer, but he states he has things to say and that blank pages make the best listeners. He feels that his best writing comes from posing great questions. With his new middle-grade novel, Dino Mike, that story emerged from a question that came to him in the night, what if a carnivorous dinosaur developed a moral objection to eating other dinosaurs?

When Jason isn't writing anthropomorphic dinosaur adventures for middle-graders, he likes to watch football and eat cheeseburgers. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is the proud father of a daughter. His favorite dinosaur is a thesaurus.
Dino Mike is Jason Singleton's debut children's novel.

Buy Jason's Book:
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More about Dori Durbin:
Dori Durbin is a Christian wife, mom, author, illustrator, and a kids’ book coach who after experiencing a life-changing illness, quickly switched gears to follow her dream. She creates kids’ books to provide a fun and safe passageway for kids and parents to dig deeper and experience empowered lives. Dori also coaches non-fiction authors, professionals, and aspiring authors to “kid-size” their content into informational and engaging kids’ books!
 
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Author Mick Collins ("Swan Dongs," "Dick Wriggler and Other Useless Superpowers," "Verum Malum,") joins for a fun discussion about the original "Dracula" film, his writing process, and the books that made him want to be a writer.

If you need some fun in your life, this podcast on the funniest books is for you. Kristin from Fables and I agree that we don’t gravitate toward lighthearted books so it is always a fun surprise when books like these bring us unexpected joy.

Expand your book stack beyond the funny classics like Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Bill Bryson,  and Trevor Noah. This humorous book stack offers some under-the-radar books that hit all the right funny notes.

Whether you are looking for short stories, science fiction, a collection of essays, middle-aged hilarity,  or coming-of-age YA humor- we have you covered.

We want to remind our listeners that Fables is our partnered bookshop and all of the links do go directly to their store. Remember, this shop also offers a used book collection. Please support our indie book shop.

Mentioned in this episode:

This Will Be Funny Later by Jenny Pentland

Fables Books Reading Challenge 2022

Book Gang Podcast: How The StoryGraph Can Enhance Your Reading Life

How to Use the StoryGraph App For a Better Reading Life

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

The Book of Polly by Kathy Hepinstall

Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny

Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton

Kira Jane Buxton on Instagram

As You Wish by Cary Elwes

How to be Perfect by Michael Schur

You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein essay

Inside Amy Schumer

Bossypants by Tina Faye

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores by Jennifer Campbell

What If Its Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera

Here’s To Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera

They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera

Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Once More Upon a Time by Roshani Chokski

Barbie in The 12 Dancing Princesses

Happy and You Know It by Laura Hankin

McSweeney’s

Funny or Die

A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Bonus Books (From Fables Book Club):

All That She Carried by Tiya Miles

Network Effect by Martha Wells

Murderbot Diaries

House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

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April is National Humor Month! Miss Dana shares some awful library jokes and some excellent humorous reads! 

This week on The Book Drop we talk about books that made us laugh, celebrate one year of recording the podcast and tell some really bad jokes for query of the week. 

Check out the OPL events calendar for these upcoming events:
Reading Challenge Book Club on Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 12PM.

All the books, movies, TV, resources and bookish items we talked about in this episode can be found here — http://bit.ly/TBDep48

"When the town of Shackleford's Folley built their newest hospital directly next to their newest truck factory, it was inevitable that one day, there would be a completely understandable mix up..."

To hear what happens next (HINT: a boy might be raised as a truck, and a truck might just be raised as a boy) give this funny children's audiobook a listen! 

Music by Reed Mathis. 

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Some burps are loud. Some burps are gross. All burps are funny. 
But Todd McGershmick's burps, well...Todd's burps* are something else entirely. 

*Also, it's kind of a long story, but I'm gonna need you to make the burp noises for me on this one. It doesn't even need to be an actual burp noise. You could just say the world "BURP" real loud, if you want. But you really should learn how to make a good burp noise at some point. Because, again, burps are always funny. 

Music by Quincas Moreira, Steve Adams, Godmode, and Saidbysed

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Bestselling author Aaron Blabey stopped by our New York offices earlier this year while on his book tour The Bad Guys: Mission to America, and we're so excited to share our conversation with you. Aaron talks about his latest Bad Guys book, The Bad Guys in Superbad, the Bad Guys movie that's currently in development with DreamWorks, and shares some insight into his creative process. He also treats us to not one, but two amazing read-alouds!

Additional resources:

• Learn more about The Bad Guys series
• Learn more about Aaron's latest picture book, I Need a Hug 
• Learn more about Thelma the Unicorn 
• Learn more about the Pig the Pug series

Guests:

• Aaron Blabey has written many well-loved, bestselling books for children. He has around five million books in print and is the creator of three hugely successful series for children — the New York Times bestselling The Bad Guys, Pig the Pug, and Thelma the Unicorn.
  In 2018 it was announced that a movie adaptation of The Bad Guys is in development at DreamWorks Animation with Aaron serving as an Executive Producer on the project.
  Aaron's books have won many awards including nine REAL Awards, an INDIE Book Award for Children's Book of the Year, a Children's Book Council of Australia — Book of the Year Award, a NSW Premiers Literary Award for Children's Literature, two Australian Book Design Awards, and a Children's Peace Literature Award.

Special thanks:

• Music composed by Lucas Elliot Eberl
• Sound mix and recording by Daniel Jordan
• Edited by Mackenzie Cutruzzula
• Produced by Emily Morrow