Well, after a discouraging month of coming to grips with the fact that self-publishing involves many more upfront expenses than I'd realized, I've decided to no longer entertain the idea of pursuing this route! However, I've not given up on illustrating the story for my grandchildren and by posting excerpts here I'm hoping an agent or publisher might stumble onto them and offer to publish it for me! You can see excerpts from Chapter 1 HERE if you missed it last month.
In Chapter 2 Gabriel spends his time trying to figure out how to escape the house so he can start looking for Poetry and meets an unlikely accomplice. Here are excerpts that go with the sketches in the next chapter. . . . .
Then, out of the corner of
his eye [Gabriel] saw it—a tiny little creature—furry and grayish brown. It had a pink tail and beady little
eyes. Gabriel rose slowly and
pointed his nose at it, his tail as straight as a stick pointed in the opposite
direction.
In Chapter 2 Gabriel spends his time trying to figure out how to escape the house so he can start looking for Poetry and meets an unlikely accomplice. Here are excerpts that go with the sketches in the next chapter. . . . .
Chapter
2 – What’s Going On?
Then, out of the corner of
his eye [Gabriel] saw it—a tiny little creature—furry and grayish brown. It had a pink tail and beady little
eyes. Gabriel rose slowly and
pointed his nose at it, his tail as straight as a stick pointed in the opposite
direction. 
