Sambuchino, Chuck

A comprehensive reference guide for children's writers that features interviews with published authors, illustrators, and industry insiders and essays which offer tips on how to break into the market and get a children's book or story published, as well as more than 500 listings of book publishers, magazines, agents, and other resources.

Explores the reasons to be afraid of clowns, and offers a humorous, four-step plan to protect oneself from clowns. Discusses types of clowns, clown anatomy and lingo, defense against clown attacks, and clown-proofing one's home. Includes color photographs throughout.

The author describes a system of strategies, with step-by-step instructions, for defending property, possessions, and loved ones against an attack by garden gnomes.