{"id":505,"date":"2011-09-14T06:45:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T13:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2016-01-27T10:02:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:02:34","slug":"my-published-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"My published book"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A book I once wrote at the age of 12.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been working on updating my art website this week, and when editing my bio, I removed a line about how I’ve been writing and illustrating since I was four years old. Having a four-year-old, I can imagine the quality of work I was churning out at that stage.<\/p>\n

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My own four-year-old writing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Often, I would walk to my grandparent’s house next door, pull out some sheets of coloured paper and make “books” at the desk, drawing and scribbling for the words. I recall reading one to Grandma, and then asking her to read it back to me, and she looked at me with a perplexed furrow.<\/p>\n

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“So My Friend”, published in 1990 by Water Fowel Publishing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tonight I came across one of my early “publications” from 1990, “So My Friend.” I wrote and published this book myself, using a typewriter, some staples and tape. My publishing company was called “Water Fowel Publishing” – a pun–and typo–involving my last name, Duck.<\/p>\n

Recently I was engaged in a conversation with someone who abhorred summer camp. This book is a testament to how much I thought about camp! It really was the highlight of my years as a kid.<\/p>\n

This wasn’t the first or last book in the series – I wrote another camp book in my teens and a 400-page novel after finishing high school.<\/p>\n

So while I am removing the published writer line from my art bio for now, this post is a testament to some of my early starts, and a toast to the future when I hope to add it back in again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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