Writing and Launching Children's Books, with Erik Jon Slangerup, Author, Storyteller, and App Creator
Your World of Creativity
Mark Stinson
5.0 • 45 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
"Stories are my art, and I'm enthusiastic about sharing them," says Erik Slangerup.
Erik is a children's book author, app maker, and storyteller.
"Plucked" is his debut middle grade novel, due for release Summer 2022 by Aladdin Books (Simon & Schuster). "Smacked" is the planned sequel to follow in 2023. Eric's previously published picture books include "Dirt Boy," "Monsterlicious," and "Santa and Me."
Erik is also co-creator of StorySnacker, the award-winning read-aloud app for parents on the go, available on the App Store. In 2019, it was ranked "Top 5 in the World for Family & Kids" by the Webby Awards. It features a library of snack-size stories, and has collected 8 international awards.
Keep track of Erik and his stories on Twitter at @erikslangerup
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Mark Stenson, and you found us on unlocking your world of creativity. |
| 0:10.0 | My guest today is the ever enthusiastic and creative writer, |
| 0:14.2 | storyteller, novelist, and app maker, Eric John Slinger up. |
| 0:21.4 | Unlocking your world of creativity with Mark Stinson. |
| 0:28.0 | Eric, glad to have you. |
| 0:30.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:31.0 | Happy to be here. |
| 0:32.0 | It's good to talk to you again. |
| 0:33.2 | Erica's just signed on with Aladdin Books, |
| 0:35.4 | which is an imprint of Simon and Schuster, |
| 0:37.6 | to really write your debut middle grade novel. |
| 0:40.8 | It's called Plucked. |
| 0:42.0 | That'll come out in 2022, and then there'll be a follow-up called |
| 0:45.4 | Smacked in 2023. So you got a nice one-two punch, literally plucked and smacked, right as we go there. So appealing to the teens for sure. |
| 0:54.7 | Those titles do sound kind of punchy. |
| 0:56.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.5 | You know, I catch myself, I'm still kind of giddy about it. |
| 1:00.7 | When you say it, it sounds official sounds official and I just I'm still a |
| 1:04.3 | little in the pinch myself stage so bear with me yeah got to embrace it right |
| 1:09.1 | well listen Eric on our show we like to start with the lightning round rather than end with it. |
| 1:15.4 | So we're going to go rapid fire with about four questions just to warm you up and put you on the hot seat a little bit. |
| 1:21.3 | It'll be fun. |
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