Welcome to the Tallfellow Tribune, Vol. I, Issue #1, June 15, 2005 - Special Father's Day Edition

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Welcome to the Tallfellow Tribune - your soon-to-be-favorite newsletter, chock full of trivia, games, contests and news from Tallfellow Press of Los Angeles - a pioneer in indie publishing. See below for funny facts, special discounts, and our first contest: a Droodles caption-writing competition.

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TALLFELLOW TRIVIA - SPONSORED BY THE GRANDFATHER THING, by Saul Turteltaub

• When did Father's Day officially become a holiday? (answer below)
• Did you know that more collect calls are received on Father's Day than any other day of the year?
• Did you know that the director of the hit movie National Treasure, Jon Turteltaub, is related to one of Tallfellow's authors? (Can you guess which one?!)
• Some famous June birthdays: Marilyn Monroe, Anne Frank, William Butler Yates, Stan Laurel, Henry VIII, Bob Fosse, Harriet Beecher Stowe, M.C. Escher, Lou Gehrig, Lena Horne, John Dillinger, John Paul Satre, Allen Ginsberg, Thomas Mann, Frank Lloyd Wright, Cole Porter, Paul Gauguin and Jacques Cousteau. Quite a group!

sponsored by The Grandfather Thing

http://www.tallfellow.com/TF_bk_grandfather.htm

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BREAKING NEWS OF ALL THINGS TALLFELLOW

Remember Droodles? So does National Geographic Kids Magazine. The magazine is using several of Roger Price's classic mind-bending masterpieces in their June issue, available any day now.

In honor of this event, and of Father's Day, we're running a Droodles Contest. The best-written caption for the Droodle below wins a FREE copy of Droodles - The Classic Collection, just in time to give it to the wacky dad in your life.

Look, think, and leave your brilliant caption as a comment underneath the Droodle on our blog, below. The winner will be selected by our expert in-house staff of Droodlites.

Real Caption: Father Cannonball Out Walking Little BBs
Or if you turn your computer sideways: A Bowling Ball with a Leak

Tell us what you see, and read others' captions, here:

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AND, IN ANOTHER, TOTALLY UNRELATED STORY

To our delight, Write Screenplays That Sell - The Ackerman Way author Hal Ackerman has an interview about the writing process on Writersbreak.com:

http://www.writersbreak.com/Interviews/articles/fiction/interview_fiction_ackerman_1.htm

Whilst the irrepressible Steve Young, author of Great Failures of the Extremely Successful, has a new talk radio show Saturdays 1 - 4 p.m. on Air America station KTLK:

http://www.ktlk.com/weekendhosts.html

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PAINLESS PROMOTION OF THE MONTH:

Who's the Funniest Father of All Time?

We took a water cooler poll earlier today, and the answers ranged from Homer Simpson to Ozzie (Nelson and Osborne) to George Lopez.

Go to our blog and cast your vote for the Punchiest Patriarch. In exchange for your time you'll get a 15% discount on any order that includes The Grandfather Thing, just in time for Father's Day.

(Discount code on blog: http://tallfellow.typepad.com/tallfellow_press_blog/2005/06/the_grandfather.html).

And a reminder:

Don't forget that grandfathers are fathers too. Saul Turteltaub's funny, wry memoir about becoming a first-time grand-dad makes a great gift for the grandfather or grandfather-to-be in your family.

"The Grandfather Thing tickles my funnybone! Baby Max is cool, cute and he writes poetry. This ia a primer for other babies and a must-read for every grandfather."
-Bill Cosby

"I feel sorry for any grandparent or parent who does not have access to this witty, warm, huggable puppy of a book."
-Carl Reiner

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A TALL SMALL NOTE

Barbara Cohen, author of our children's book Forever Friends, was quite a hit at the 2005 BEA in New York City earlier this month. The line at her book signing extended down the aisle for over an hour and a half, and Petey and Skip...

...made new friends from all across the country.

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TRIVIA QUESTION ANSWER

Although Woodrow Wilson observed Father's Day in 1916, it didn't become an official holiday until 1966 when President Johnson signed a presidential proclamation setting aside the third Sunday of June.

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