Parents Write Goes Sleuthing

Robin and I are heading to the Sleuthfest convention next month!

This is a convention for mystery writers. And so, because my latest novel, The Dead Guy, is a mystery novel, we figured we'd go! Plus, it will be in February and held in Florida. That's a good reason to go, too!

We would like to invite anyone who is going to look us up!

See you in Florida!

Doug and Robin

Parents And The Holidays

The holiday season can be a stressful time. This is due, in large part, to expectations. It's so difficult to meet everyone's expectations, which can often be inflated because of how we think the holiday season should be.

Sometimes we think that just getting through the holiday season with no major catastrophe is a major accomplishment.

But the warmth and good feelings are there. We know they are. We hope everyone took the time to appreciate the good things about this holiday season.

Doug and Robin
www.HewittsBooks.com
See Doug's Funny Spuds Video Trailer for The Dead Guy

New Book Trailer Arrives!

This is a funny video book trailer. Okay, we're biased, but we think it's one of the funniest ever produced.

What other book trailers have Mr. Potato Heads reenacting a murder scene?

In this video, they do! It's a scene from Doug's novel The Dead Guy.

Here's the link.

Spuds Reenact The Dead Guy Link

The Latest Scoop

Okay, a brief post on the latest news.

Doug has his mystery novel, The Dead Guy, published.

You can view the video trailer here: View Video Trailer.

And you can view the first chapter in PDF form at our home webpage:
HewittsBooks

Happy Holidays to all!

Doug and Robin

Be Careful What You Ask For

We're writers. We like to write. We dream of selling books and signing publishing contracts. So, with two book contracts in one week, you'd think we're on Cloud 9. Well, we are, but that doesn't mean we're feeling maximum overload. Think about it. Doug has just sold his first mystery novel, The Dead Guy, to a wonderful new publisher, Aberdeen Bay Publishing. As the writing team of Doug and Robin, we've contracted for a book about college funding, based on the fact that we have five children in higher education and we're not paying a dime and neither are our kids!

But be careful what you ask for. The deadline for Doug's rewrite (and there is a request from the publishing company for a revision) is about three weeks. But at least it's a completed manuscript. For the scholarship book, we have plenty of notes, but other than that, we're starting from scratch. And we have a deadline of a couple of months on that. Yikes. We love to write and we've dreamed of having these opportunities, but for the moment time is stretching us so thin that we're becoming translucent. And don't even ask us about the transparencies nightmares.

Just kidding.

We're having a good time. Expect more updates soon.

Doug and Robin
www.HewittsBooks.com