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Francois Keyser
Author Francois Keyser shares his author experience and journey with listeners and offers advice and guidance with regard to publishing and writing.Francois also reads extracts from his books and interviews authors about their books and writing experience.He also reviews books on his podcast. If you would like to join Francois on his podcast to be interviewed or share information about publishing, contact him with your request at fkeyser1@gmail.com
The tale of Peter Rabbit originally written by Beatrix Potter is now in the public domain.
This is one of those classic children's stories that will always be enjoyed by children and parents who read to their children. It is also great for a bedtime story and can either be listened to with this podcast episode or read if you have the story.
The Book Dude has read and recorded the story with Genevieve the Reading Genie here for you to enjoy.
Please feel free to share this story with anyone you know that might be interested.
Thank you for listening and for your support.
"Listen to your heart when it tells you what it would rather be doing at any given moment in time. That's the door to your dreams."
In this first episode of Francois' author journey, Francois shares the details of his career before he finally took the step of returning to his childhood dream of being an author.
In the experience tht Francois shares there are some valuable takeaways for any listener regrdless of whether they want to be an author or follow a different dream that they have.
Always be true to yourself. The dream of what you want to do in life is not just about that but it's about work life balance and being there for others too in the smallest ways and thinking ahead to the future.
If you have any feedback or suggestions, please contact Francois on fkeyser1@gmail.com.
Thank you
"Listen to your heart when it tells you what it would rather be doing at any given moment in time. That's the door to your dreams."
The first chapter of WordRealm originally written as a fantasy novel and now converted to a podcast.
In this episode we are introduced to Broll and Shath who created a jewel when they cast a spell to ensure they could be brought back to life after the gods cursed them for abusing their magic powers in battling one another.
The jewel they have begun to create will be completed centuries into the future and will become an object coveted by the forces of good and evil.
"Listen to your heart when it tells you what it would rather be doing at any given moment in time. That's the door to your dreams."
This podcast episode retells the beginning of Francois' journey as an author.
In his young days he knew he wanted to write but did not yet believe he would be an author. The world held many possibilities and at that young age there was much to explore.
But as he says, 'Follow your passion. What is it that you love to do? What makes you happy and what would you rather be doing when you're doing something you don't want to do? Listen to those feelings because that's your soul, that's God talking to you.'
In the next episode Francois will share the disastrous start to his publishing experience.
"Listen to your heart when it tells you what it would rather be doing at any given moment in time. That's the door to your dreams."
The Book Dude and Genevieve the Reading Genie read 'The Junglies Haunt a Castle'
This is a story from the 'Junglies' series of children's books by Francois Keyser.
This story teaches children that they should wait for an adult or seek advice from an adult before doing something that may be dangerous.
The Junglies stories can also be used to introduce young readers to the subject of endangered species as every animal represented by a character has at least one subspecies that is endangered including rabbits.
The stories can also be used to introduce children to unity in diversity as the animals in the story are best friends despite being different.
When Mother Hen gets hungry she has to make a plan to keep her egg warm while she goes to look for food.
She leaves the egg in the sun but as luck would have it, it gets disturbed and goes rolling all over the farmyard. Will mother hen get her egg back before it breaks?
The Book Dude and Genevieve the Reading Genie read this book together for children and parents to enjoy together.
Francois and his daughter do a read-aloud of Paddington Bear.
The book was written by Micahel Bond and illustrated by R. W. Alley.
It makes for great listening and sharing with children.
Please share this with anyone who has children who love stories. Let's discover better ways to use technology to entertain our children, like going back to the days of storytelling and reading among other things.
Francois reads the children's story titled, 'The Magic Porridge Pot'.
A simple lesson for children to listen to instructions. After this story learning can be reinforced by playing listening games such as 'Telephone' or simply reading details or instructions and asking children to repeat them or follow them in order after they have listened to the instructions.
The porridge in the story sounds like the best porridge ever! :)