Unexpectedly Bart (King!)

"Time Travel Inn" shines in the Shelf Awareness newsletter

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 14:10:00 +0000

The Shelf Awareness newsletter helps readers discover new books, as chosen by booksellers, librarians, and other experts. And this banner ad for Time Travel Inn ran in this week's edition!

What's Time Travel Inn about?

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 23:30:00 +0000

Hey, I shared the news of my new book without giving any real details of what it's about! Let me remedy that now. Just click on the picture below to see a larger version:

Jeff Kinney loved my new book, TIME TRAVEL INN!

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 18:42:00 +0000

Hey, a thousand apologies. I was so busy working on Time Travel Inn for Choose Your Own Adventure, I didn't update my own blog. Anyway, I can tell you that Jeff Kinney (author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid) described my story as having "mind-bending adventure and heart-stopping thrills!"

Time Travel Inn is available at Indiebound, Powell’s Books, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Choose Your Own Adventure, or your local bookstore or library!

Please read my "amusing" article

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 17:52:00 +0000

Here's the link. Oh, and my friend, Aaron, helped with this piece. But I wrote all the good parts. ;)

I Won a Major Award!

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 17:16:00 +0000

No big deal, but I was just awarded WRITING'S GREATEST PRIZE! No, not the Nobel Prize in Literature. Even better—I won the ”Vile Pun” category in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

As background, the BLFC challenges writers to compose the first sentence for the worst imaginable novel. It has various genre categories (Adventure, Romance, Science Fiction, etc.), and there's also one for "Vile Puns."

As nothing is more unfunny than explaining a joke, here goes: A Peer is a member of the British aristocracy, and telling someone to "take a long walk off a short pier" is a way of telling someone to get lost.

So anyway, you can imagine how proud I am! And if you read any of the award-winning entries and think, "I could write worse than THAT," enter this contest next year. :)

Hey, want to see something cool? Here's something cool.

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 13:42:00 +0000

Little Leonardo's MakerLab: Building is not out

just yet, but it can be preordered today!

HAPPY MONDAY!

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 13:55:00 +0000

The Oregonian has an article up about great summer reads, and guess what books are in it?

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 16:23:00 +0000

GUESS!!

Gesundheit.

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Tue, 21 May 2019 15:46:00 +0000

Ooh, my new books are here!

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:05:00 +0000

Not to overplay it, but getting my new SPACE and ROBOT books in the mail just cured my baldness and made a warm apple pie appear in the kitchen. 🧙‍♂️

The Little Leonardo's Makerlab books are for young readers (4-8) who are ready for fun science activities. These two books officially arrive in April, but can be preordered now! 🚀

Gibbs Smith: http://bit.ly/2tiRFfS
Indiebound: http://bit.ly/2N3XVkB
Powell’s: http://bit.ly/2N0QQkV and http://bit.ly/2US1tct
Barnes & Noble: http://bit.ly/2N45jwm and http://bit.ly/2Bwn6rN
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2SJSI6T and https://amzn.to/2DxzS9r

And don’t forget your local bookstore or library!

Good morning.

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:05:00 +0000

New hoodie!

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:16:00 +0000

Who is the most famous Bart King?

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:16:00 +0000

Not me. It's this famous cricket player:

it's murder, lol

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:13:00 +0000

WARNING: THE LINK BELOW LEADS TO AN INTERVIEW WITH ME

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:44:00 +0000

This is the link. Look out!

Ooh, and if you're in Portland and if you want to catch a glimpse of a Bart in the wild, I'm at Powell's Books on Hawthorne a couple of days a week. Good luck, but be warned: I'm easily spooked.

When you’re looking for a hobby that matches your healthy lifestyle:

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:39:00 +0000

"Mom? Dad? I wanna be a writer."

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:39:00 +0000

If anyone ever corrects your grammar, do this:

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:38:00 +0000

YOU: Knock, knock.

THEM: Who's there?

YOU: To.

THEM: To who?

YOU: No, it's "to WHOM.” 🧐

MASEEOOHFWNCBA

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:36:00 +0000

19th century Icelandic lullabies are hella metal.

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:35:00 +0000

A new satellite

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:34:00 +0000

‪1. Take a selfie through a toilet paper roll.‬

‪2. Pretend you’re the Moon.‬

‪3. Provide others with glee as they picture you painstakingly taking a selfie through a toilet paper roll.‬

Wait, WHO was America's first president?!

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:32:00 +0000

True Story: Our dog just snuck into our neighbor’s book club meeting.

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:31:00 +0000

This was particularly dumb since he didn’t even read this month’s book. ‪

(Honestly, he's barely literate.‬)

This is one amazing book dedication.

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:30:00 +0000

From The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe.

Portland’s beautiful in autumn when the leaflets turn.

noreply@blogger.com (Bart King) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:28:00 +0000