Beginnings

This week I went to my first LDStorymakers Conference in Salt Lake City. I would like to have taken Zach with me, but they still make 14-year-old-boys go to school. I would like to have had him sitting by me learning what I was learning but with his 21st Century ears and understanding instead of my much older ones.
This way he has to rely on my memory and my notetaking neither of which is as good as his.
The first thing I told him was that we were encouraged to have our books on social media so we could alert the world to what we are doing. Zach of course knows all about social media. He had created a website, put us on email, registered for Facebook and for Twitter before I could say "Bob'syeruncle!" or "Wait for me!' Both of which make about the same amount of sense.
Zach and I have been writing books together since he was four and he posed for pictures for Zachie-Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Zach was a courageous Joseph, a super Pharoah, and excellent as all 11 brothers. We collaborated on other books--Peter Pan, Grapevines (which follows the journey of two young people from World War II Germany to California), Bluestone (about a boy who goes from England to Jerusalem in the Crusade with Richard the Lionheart), and now The Six Towers where young people are taught to create new countries out of a devastated African continent.
We'll tell you more about that as we go along.
In the meantime Zach and I will write together every Tuesday during lunch hour and use our social media to connect with you. We hope you'll enjoy it as we go.