chicken little went to town today

[speckledhen]

If you ever come back down here, PC, I demand a visit!

Very familiar with Gainesville, Michael. Moved from Lilburn to Dacula to up here in the mtns of Fannin County.

 

[hencackle]

So glad you will be doing a children's book....but, what about a fun chicken book for us grownups?

 

[michaelvcrowder]

purple chicken,
one of our biggest problems down here has to do with carpet baggers and chickens. here is how it plays out:

mr and mrs yankee decide to move to the warmer climate of florida. they spend a couple of years in the miserable heat of the floridian summer and then a hurricane or two. they get tired of all that and start looking for greener pastures. that is when they discover the north georgia mountains.

they visit, they shop real estate and voila, another carpet bagger in the blue ridge. of course the smart real estate agent shows them property when the wind and weather is just right. the carpet baggers get moved in and then the first really hot day when the wind blows from the nearest chicken farm they nut slap up. all the sudden their little corner of utopia smells like a broiler house.

at this point they start calling the local, state and federal government complaining about the smell. the chicken farm has been there for six generations and they have lived there for a month but they have rights. the right to gripe. when someone calls the epa/epd enough to be aggravating they usually investigate. with enough random checks every farmer is eventually caught with a minor violation. it is ridiculous that these folks move into farm country and then complain about the smell of a farm but that is what happens.

it has put enough hardship on some growers that they have either abandoned chickens or moved to more remote locations. it is a crying shame. but the developers keep building subdivisions near chicken farms, the agents keep selling homes to people without alluding to a few farm smells and the new residents end up complaining until it becomes a hardship for the farmer.

hencackle,
a well done children's book is just as entertaining for grown ups as the kids.
michael

 

[speckledhen]

LOL, oh, don't get me started on the Florida car tags here. Yup, yup, yup...

Sorry, forgot to say that I do love the photos! Excellent photo diary of your trip into Chicken Town.

 

[hencackle]

Michael, I adore a good children's book myself, although I get weird looks from DH if I were to browse the childrens' section of the bookstore. We are both 50, childless--not by choice. It couldn't hurt, marketing-wise to write something for adults.

BTW, ChickenLittle is a cutie!

 

[michaelvcrowder]

hencackle,
my wife and i are childless and about the same age bracket. i ain't scared of the children's book section. i can always mention a niece or nephew to throw folks off track that i really am just a child at heart.
michael

 

[paganfish]

Hey Michael,

The pictures are so kewl and the idea of a kid's story book is awesome! I hope you pursue it. I certainly look forward to it! (I ain't skeered of not kid's section either!)

The pictures you took with the captions took ME there. You certainly have a visual gift...and one of words. Now, put them together in a book! LOL!

(not changing that station...until further update)

Peace-

Pedro~;-V

 

[michaelvcrowder]

pagan & folks,
since this won't be my first book rodeo it shouldn't be too hard. the photography and the writing is the easy part. pre-press and printing are not too difficult either. marketing is the hard part. i did real well with my first book for the first couple of years. then i got lazy with marketing once i got into the profit margin and sales slowed down.

for a project like this, i believe the best thing would be to shop it with some of the real children's book publishers. write it, shoot it and hand it off. getting into the real book stores is hard to do without an existing relationship. that is where an established children's publisher would make the difference.
michael

 

[michaelvcrowder]

lets see if the chicken cam works. i think i finally have it correct. a couple of hints. since active x does not work in mozilla firefox use internet explorer as a browser. you must also have you port 1024 unblocked. if you have met both of these criteria and follow the link i am posting below then all you will hav eot do is click on the view video tab and you will get to see chicken little just chillin in his cage. hope this works.
michael

http://chickencamera.ourlinksys.com:1024/main.cgi?next_file=main.htm

 

[IHeartChickens]

Wow! Chicken little is not so little anymore. He sure has grown. I love the story and can't wait for the next installment. It looks like you two had a great time out there.

I would buy the Chicken Little book. You are correct. The best written childrens books are enjoyed by adults as well. I've bought several as an adult. Or perhaps I'm just not very mature...... er...