Where the Wild Things Are Archives - Lisa Colón DeLay

We did a children’s book!

It’s awesome. :) High-quality hardcover and available on Amazon.
</p> <p>FAIR WARNING. This is a high-priced book. For that reason alone it won’t appeal to many. But, for the few that don’t put a price on this type of treasure, it will be in that case priceless. :)</p> <p><em>Journey with Rex as he travels to different worlds, and meets characters to help him understand love, belonging, friendship, and ultimately help him find his purpose and his way home.</em></p> <div style="text-align: left; width: 450px;" data-bindattr-66="66"><object class="myWidget" data="http://www.blurb.com/assets/embed.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="300" data-bindattr-67="67"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.blurb.com/assets/embed.swf" data-bindattr-68="68" /><param name="FlashVars" value="book_id=6091884&locale=en_US&token_id=5502538&token=f3521e170dc39b9c970b7affb4ca520863ef2372" data-bindattr-69="69" /><a data-bindattr-70="70" target="_new"><img decoding="async" src="http://www.blurb.com/images/uploads2/catalog/006/493/774/6556360-4c505e0b6d4aa731428ba01e85379175.jpg" data-bindattr-71="71" /></a></object><br /> <script id="metamorph-240-start" type="text/x-placeholder"></script></p> <div><a style="margin: 12px 3px;" href="http://blur.by/1HRr08O" target="_blank" data-bindattr-72="72"><script id="metamorph-241-start" type="text/x-placeholder"></script>Rex the Boy King<script id="metamorph-241-end" type="text/x-placeholder"></script>by<script id="metamorph-242-start" type="text/x-placeholder"></script>Lisa DeLay<script id="metamorph-242-end" type="text/x-placeholder"></script></a><br /> |<br /> <a style="margin: 12px 3px;" href="http://www.blurb.com/landing_pages/bookshow" target="_blank" data-bindattr-73="73"><script id="metamorph-243-start" type="text/x-placeholder"></script>Make Your Own Book<script id="metamorph-243-end" type="text/x-placeholder"></script></a></div> <p><script id="metamorph-240-end" type="text/x-placeholder"></script></p> </div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="posted-on"><span class="screen-reader-text">Posted on </span><a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/rex/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2014-12-24T11:13:49-04:00">24 December, 2014</time><time class="updated" datetime="2015-03-28T09:19:44-04:00">28 March, 2015</time></a></span><span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><span class="screen-reader-text">Author </span><a class="url fn n" href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/author/admin/">Spark My Muse</a></span></span><span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/category/authors/" rel="category tag">Authors</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/category/books/" rel="category tag">Books</a></span><span class="tags-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Tags </span><a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/alone/" rel="tag">alone</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/amazon/" 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href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/rex/" rel="tag">rex</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/rex-the-boy-king-2/" rel="tag">rex the boy king</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/season/" rel="tag">season</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/special/" rel="tag">special</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/story/" rel="tag">story</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/support/" rel="tag">support</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/the-little-prince/" rel="tag">the little prince</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/time/" rel="tag">time</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/treasure/" rel="tag">treasure</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/watch/" rel="tag">watch</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/where-the-wild-things-are/" rel="tag">Where the Wild Things Are</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/will/" rel="tag">will</a></span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-15343" class="post-15343 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-authors category-books tag-age tag-animals tag-book tag-caption tag-childrens-book tag-daughter tag-delay tag-do tag-ellie tag-following tag-fox tag-garnish tag-goodies tag-help tag-homecoming tag-husband tag-imagination tag-joy tag-kickstarter tag-kind tag-king tag-lis-ableya tag-lisa-colon-delay tag-money tag-narnia tag-prizes tag-project tag-publish tag-reading tag-rex tag-rex-the-boy-king-2 tag-show tag-spread tag-support tag-the-little-prince tag-tim-delay tag-update tag-video tag-where-the-wild-things-are"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/a-boy-a-fox-and-a-homecoming-sneak-peek-3/" rel="bookmark">A boy, a fox, and a homecoming (sneak peek #3)</a></h2> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>UPDATE: Book is available <a href="http://blur.by/1HRr08O" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p>Plus a squirrel…(and some other animals)</p> <p>Anyway…Here’s a few illustrations and a spread from the book “Rex the Boy King”.</p> <p>One is from my daughter and one from my husband, plus a spread.</p> <p><em>My next step is to create a video that is part book trailer and part Kickstarter information and introduction video to garnish some kind of following for the project to bring it to fruition. </em></p> <p><em>Kickstarter allows us to raise the money to publish this book ourselves and offer one-of-a-kind prizes and goodies to those who back the project and support what we are doing.</em></p> <p>Stay tune for that. I’ll do a reading, and show more from the book.</p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p><strong>What book has most sparked your imagination or created the most joy for you? Let us know!</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><figure id="attachment_15344" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15344" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15344 size-medium" src="https://lisadelay.com/blog/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Ellie1-300x289.jpg" alt="Ellie1" width="300" height="289" srcset="https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Ellie1-300x289.jpg 300w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Ellie1-350x338.jpg 350w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Ellie1-150x144.jpg 150w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Ellie1-1024x988.jpg 1024w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Ellie1.jpg 1676w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15344" class="wp-caption-text">by Ellie DeLay- age 12</figcaption></figure></p> <p><figure id="attachment_15347" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15347" style="width: 273px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15347 size-medium" src="https://lisadelay.com/blog/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Nutley-273x300.jpg" alt="Nutley" width="273" height="300" srcset="https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Nutley-273x300.jpg 273w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Nutley-350x384.jpg 350w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Nutley-136x150.jpg 136w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Nutley-932x1024.jpg 932w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Nutley.jpg 1093w" sizes="(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15347" class="wp-caption-text">“Nutly” by Tim DeLay</figcaption></figure></p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-15348 size-large" src="https://lisadelay.com/blog/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/spread2REX-1024x507.png" alt="spread2REX" width="1024" height="507" srcset="https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/spread2REX-1024x507.png 1024w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/spread2REX-350x173.png 350w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/spread2REX-150x74.png 150w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/spread2REX-300x148.png 300w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/spread2REX-600x297.png 600w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/spread2REX.png 1242w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="posted-on"><span class="screen-reader-text">Posted on </span><a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/a-boy-a-fox-and-a-homecoming-sneak-peek-3/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2014-12-23T11:28:34-04:00">23 December, 2014</time><time class="updated" datetime="2015-03-26T20:45:07-04:00">26 March, 2015</time></a></span><span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><span class="screen-reader-text">Author </span><a class="url fn n" href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/author/admin/">Spark My Muse</a></span></span><span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/category/authors/" rel="category tag">Authors</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/category/books/" rel="category tag">Books</a></span><span class="tags-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Tags </span><a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/age/" rel="tag">age</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/animals/" rel="tag">animals</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/book/" rel="tag">book</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/caption/" rel="tag">caption</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/childrens-book/" rel="tag">children's book</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/daughter/" rel="tag">daughter</a>, <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/tag/delay/" rel="tag">DeLay</a>, <a 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tag-wonder tag-word"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/rex-the-boy-king-spread-2-a-sneak-peek/" rel="bookmark">Rex the Boy King (spread 2): a sneak peek</a></h2> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <div style="text-align:left; width:650px;" data-bindattr-150="150"> <object class="myWidget" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.blurb.com/assets/embed.swf" height="400" width="650" data-bindattr-151="151"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.blurb.com/assets/embed.swf" data-bindattr-152="152"></param><param name="FlashVars" value="book_id=6073213&locale=en_US&token_id=5481916&token=3095bdc0117d76a44961b43bbb859ff2ea315712" data-bindattr-153="153"></param><a data-bindattr-154="154" target="_new"><br /> <img decoding="async" src="http://www.blurb.com/images/uploads2/catalog/006/493/774/6535975-64e4d901f2ceaef5349a1a507a6e05cb.jpg" data-bindattr-155="155"/><br /> </a></object><br /> <script id='metamorph-438-start' type='text/x-placeholder'></script></p> <div> <a href="http://blur.by/1DwckOp" data-bindattr-156="156" style="margin:12px 3px;" target="_blank"><script id='metamorph-439-start' type='text/x-placeholder'></script>Rex the Boy King<script id='metamorph-439-end' type='text/x-placeholder'></script> by <script id='metamorph-440-start' type='text/x-placeholder'></script>Lisa DeLay<script id='metamorph-440-end' type='text/x-placeholder'></script></a><br /> |<br /> <a href="http://www.blurb.com/landing_pages/bookshow" data-bindattr-157="157" style="margin:12px 3px;" target="_blank"><script id='metamorph-441-start' type='text/x-placeholder'></script>Make Your Own Book<script id='metamorph-441-end' type='text/x-placeholder'></script></a> </div> <p> <script id='metamorph-438-end' type='text/x-placeholder'></script> </div> <p> </p> <p>previous post:<br /> Here’s an other taste of the magic happening on my new project.</p> <p>It’s going be exciting to see this thing make its splash.</p> <p><strong>If you are a fan of <em>Where the Wild Things Are</em>, the Narnia books, <em>The Little Prince,</em> or <em>The Velveteen Rabbit, then </em>you are going to love this one and I’m counting on you to spread the word!</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>I’m going all-out with an art book quality self-printing that I hope will be a cherished book beyond my lifetime, and something my daughter can read with her children or grandchildren one day. My goal is to get it into a short-rum printing before the year is out.</p> <p> </p> <p>I’ve been sparse with details…so — Do you have any questions about this project?<br /> If so, let me know.</p> <p><figure id="attachment_15341" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15341" style="width: 1219px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-15341" src="https://lisadelay.com/blog/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/spread1REX.png" alt="(spread from Rex the Boy King)" width="1219" height="604" srcset="https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/spread1REX.png 1219w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/spread1REX-350x173.png 350w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/spread1REX-150x74.png 150w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/spread1REX-300x148.png 300w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/spread1REX-1024x507.png 1024w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/spread1REX-600x297.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 1219px) 100vw, 1219px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15341" class="wp-caption-text">(spread from Rex the Boy King)</figcaption></figure></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="posted-on"><span class="screen-reader-text">Posted on </span><a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/rex-the-boy-king-spread-2-a-sneak-peek/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2014-12-16T10:15:18-04:00">16 December, 2014</time><time class="updated" datetime="2015-03-17T08:37:37-04:00">17 March, 2015</time></a></span><span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><span class="screen-reader-text">Author </span><a class="url fn n" href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/author/admin/">Spark My Muse</a></span></span><span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/category/authors/" rel="category tag">Authors</a>, <a 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category-authors category-books category-creativity category-spark-my-muse tag-alone tag-be tag-beg tag-best tag-book tag-bugs tag-childhood tag-children tag-creative tag-dancing tag-ebook tag-everything tag-family tag-floating tag-following tag-free tag-friend tag-good tag-if tag-imagination tag-in tag-join tag-just tag-kind tag-king tag-life tag-lisa-colon-delay tag-lisa-delay tag-magic tag-max tag-memoir tag-mind tag-money tag-narnia tag-nature tag-not tag-passion tag-people tag-photos tag-planning tag-project tag-promises tag-publishing tag-reason tag-rex tag-rex-the-boy-king-2 tag-share tag-spirit tag-stories tag-story tag-the-little-prince tag-things tag-twilight tag-universal tag-universal-memoir tag-void tag-where-the-wild-things-are tag-why tag-wild tag-wild-things tag-word tag-write tag-writing"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/the-universal-memoir-that-wrote-itself/" rel="bookmark">The Universal Memoir that wrote itself</a></h2> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>When my friend read the draft of this, she wept.</p> <p>The nutshell is this:<br /> I wanted to write a story that captured my story.</p> <p>Recently, I was intrigued by the phenomenon of “<a href="http://www.beveragefactory.com/wine/wineopeners/waiter/pulltap_waiters_corkscrew.shtml" target="_blank">The 6 Word Memoir</a>” idea. I like that idea that you can share a lot about your self quickly.</p> <p>It’s poetry, really. (But that word scares -some-people.)</p> <p>I’ve also felt nudged to write a memoir myself. But on which part of my life? There’s a lot of drama!</p> <p>And really, I don’t have the fortitude to cover the seriously painful parts of my life. It wrecks me. I see why people just hire editors for that sort of thing. But, those are the parts that offer the best memoir material.</p> <p>Also, any successful memoir is written by a famous or infamous person that has a following of some sort. The other kind of written for family member to read. The only reason I want to create one, or a few (it’s not an autobiography I’m interested in, mind you) is because have so many stories that beg me to tell them. To birth them into the world. But, it’s a lot like yelling into the void or dancing alone in a hall of mirrors.</p> <p><strong style="font-style: italic;">And then the idea hit me to write a short story that was a kind of universal memoir.</strong></p> <p>In the same spirit as <em>The Little Prince</em> and <em>Where the Wild Things Are</em> I started writing something and in about a day and a half it was done. It was gestating for a long while. Years. (And of course, I just mean the first draft was done.) But, in truth, the story came out in nearly one whole piece. That never really happens.</p> <p><strong>So, now, I’m in the final stages with the layout.</strong> Gorgeous photos are in place. Illustrations are forthcoming. It’s a passion project and those sort of things have to be done independently–not for the publishing industry Machine.</p> <p>Since an ebook can be done so easily, that bit should be available semi-soon and I’ll list it for free or a low cost. But, the nature of this book is not good for that format. It’s just NOT the sort of book. It won’t “work” 100% if it’s only digitally available. It should be material.</p> <p>It should be held and kept by the bed table. Read to children who turn its pages and hear the sounds of the paper, and feel the texture on their little fingers. It should hold the occasional tear puddle like some of my Narnia books, and my Little Prince book have. It should be beautiful and lasting and not just a click away.</p> <p>And for adults it promises to have the same magic of the classic stories read to them once in the twilight nights of warm summers when the lighting bugs danced, and everything was possible.</p> <p> </p> <p>So, I’m going to raise money and self-publish with art book quality as a short run. You can join me in this leg of the journey.</p> <p><strong>Here is the cover.<br /> </strong>(Stop by within a week and see another spread.)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15326" src="https://lisadelay.com/blog/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/RExsneakpeak.png" alt="RExsneakpeak" width="782" height="426" /></p> <p>I’ll gave you more details soon.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="posted-on"><span class="screen-reader-text">Posted on </span><a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/the-universal-memoir-that-wrote-itself/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2014-12-12T10:36:13-04:00">12 December, 2014</time><time class="updated" datetime="2014-12-23T12:57:29-04:00">23 December, 2014</time></a></span><span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><span class="screen-reader-text">Author </span><a class="url fn n" href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/author/admin/">Spark My Muse</a></span></span><span 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Max, King of the Wild Things [SSL134]

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