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World’s Worst Time Machine
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Guest Post by Dustin Brady
I am delighted to welcome Dustin Brady to talk about his latest book for kids, World’s Worst Time Machine!
About the Book:
From best-selling author, Dustin Brady, comes a new illustrated novel series perfect for fans who love funny, unexpected adventures and wacky plot twists.
For kids, life can be boring, but Liam and Elsa know how to create their own fun — or so they think. After finding a $3 time machine at a garage sale, Liam uses the machine to summon Thomas Edison for help with his book report. It's not until the time machine sends a different Thomas Edison from the 1930s that chaos ensues.
World's Worst Time Machine is the newest series from best-selling children's book author of the Trapped in a Video Game series, Dustin Brady. Using his signature style, Brady's laugh-out-loud sense of humor and daring adventure will keep even the most reluctant reader wanting to turn the page.
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About the Author:
Dustin Brady writes funny, action-packed books for kids. Although he regularly gets locked out of his own accounts for forgetting passwords, Dustin still remembers the Super Mario Bros. 3 Game Genie code for infinite lives. It’s SLXPLOVS. Dustin lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife, kids, and a small dog named Nugget.
Guest Post By Dustin Brady:
MY DAY WITH THOMAS EDISON
I want to write books I would have loved reading as a kid, so I always begin my writing process by thinking back on things I used to daydream about. I was kind of a weird kid, so I don’t know how common my daydreams were, but I figure if I found them interesting, maybe there’s a nugget there that’ll connect with today’s kids.
Something I’d think about a lot was what I’d do if I could bring a historical figure to the present day for 24 hours. That’s a strange thing for a kid to dwell on, huh?
That question led to my latest book, World’s Worst Time Machine. In this book, the hero brings Thomas Edison to the present day. But since he’s using the World’s Worst Time Machine, it’s the wrong Thomas Edison. This Thomas Edison is a kid from 1933 who wants to be a gangster and would really prefer to be called “Tommy Twinkles.”
I didn’t get that far in my original daydream (but would have been delighted if I had!). Here are all things I imagined doing with the real Thomas Edison as a kid:
- Play Super Mario Bros. 3 on my Nintendo.
- After Thomas Edison’s mind had been sufficiently blown, break out the Nintendo’s light gun and play Duck Hunt.
- Give Mr. Edison an atomic warhead sour candy. Start him out with the lemon one for maximum effect.
- Demonstrate the final evolution of his phonograph: the Talkboy voice recorder from Home Alone 2.
- Go on a car ride. Let him drive in the empty parking lot of the closed Hills department store.
- Point to an airplane overhead. Explain that most people don’t really know how they fly.
- Go to Cedar Point (America’s Roller Coast). Take him on the Magnum XL-200 and make him hold his hands in the air down the first hill.
- Stay at Cedar Point until they kick everyone out of the park because that is the only way to do Cedar Point, even when you’re enjoying a once-in-a-lifetime visit from a deceased historical figure.
- Back at home, right before bed, break out the Christmas lights to show him just how far his light bulb had come.
As silly as that sounds, writing all that down gets me in the right mindset for my book. I find that my best ideas are the ones I would have thought of at 10 years old.
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