Short Fat Stubby Finger Publications (Tony Stewart)

Hi, I’m back and I hope somebody is out there.
Just a quick blog to tell you that my website and the first of my books are not far away. All going well I should have the web site up by January 2015 and the first of the books available not long after.
The first book will be “The cow that could swim’ which tells the true … well almost true … no, you better make that a very ‘poetic licenced true story’ of a cow that got caught in the 2011 Queensland, Australia floods and was washed downstream in the Brisbane river from Ipswich to Brisbane before managing to escape.
Now I must admit that I have not actually spoken to the cow about the facts, but I have, over a few drinks, been assured by Fatso, the dolphin, that most of my story is fairly close to the truth and who wouldn’t trust a dolphin. I mean look how revered Flipper was.
At any rate, The Cow That Could Swim is the first of my draw-it-yourself-books which I have created for several reasons, including producing a permanent gift from a young child to a loved one (eg: Mother, Father, Grandparents ect., or the reverse). It can also be saved to share with their own children when the time comes and it can also be used as a fund raiser by schools who could have it illustrated by the teachers/ by the students/ by a gifted friend of the school and sold at auction during the school’s fund raising day.
I am also considering making the book available in e-pub, but I have yet to decide whether that will be beneficial to the buyer as parchment paper (cartridge paper) can be fairly costly and you would need this paper for all forms of drawing (paint, charcoal, pencil) and it can be an expensive product to purchase and the user would need approx 30 pages plus a hard cover (top/bottom) and the comb binder and wires or plastic combs. But if anybody has any thoughts please let me know.
The information regarding the draw-it-yourself books is listed on the web page, but for now I’ll give you the details. The books are a4 sized cartridge paper (sketch paper), approx 30 plus pages per story (15 pages of text and 15 pages of blank paper for illustration. The stories are told in a serial cliff-hanger style and there is a one or two line summary of the preceding page’s storyline printed at the trop of the illustration page to help the reader to know what needs to be in the illustration, but the words can easily be drawn over if not wanted.
Well that’s it for the moment.
I will leave you with a poem and until the next time,
Have a lovely Christmas and a happy new year
Tony Stewart

Guilt
By Tony Stewart

I loved you
more than you will ever know
but you just left me
you just had to go

you never made me your woman
you never wanted me to be your bride
so you just left me with tainted love
never caring what you left inside

I bore the scars of our love alone
no help from you or anyone
I was treated like a leper
there was no one for me to me to phone

There was nothing heard from you
I alone carried all the shame
of being a single mother
of a child that bore your name

Society frowned down on me
a wanton hussy who cared not at all
and they all sat back laughing
waiting for me to fall

But I would not grace them
with a pitiful plea for their charity
I would prove to both them and you
that I was a rarity

I would love and cherish
the fruit from the seed that grew
and every day that child would get love
that was always clean and true

But try as hard as I may
the pressure was too great for me
I succumbed to their evil thoughts
and gave up the link that binded me with you

And I find it hard to understand
Why I alone this blame must bear
and why you could stay around
to recognize
you’re free to roam without a care

While I live all my life
carrying guilt and condemnation
simply because
I loved you

The Cow That Could Swim
by Tony Stewart

The Cow That Could Swim
by Tony Stewart