The Tree That Sat Down

“Never Get A Wizard Mad At You”
Book One in the Upstairs Armadillo Series

My new book begins when the upstairs armadillo is discovered in Emma’s sock drawer.

The upstairs armadillo is not a character I invented.

My mother was the first one to see Charles Alexander and the upstairs armadillo. When I was little, she would tell me stories about Charles Alexander and the upstairs armadillo. They lived in her house when she was growing up and together they created a great deal of mischief.

That was many years ago. Fast forward to the fall of 2020. During a wind storm one of the trees behind my house got tired and sat down. Unfortunately, when the tree sat down, it lost it’s balance and fell onto my house.

I came home in the evening to find it’s branches poking into my office and the rain pouring in. What a mess!

The tree that sat down on my house.
Tree being craned off of the house.
Repairs underway

Everything had to be taken out. Most of the furniture was beyond saving, but somehow the stacks of papers and boxes of files that were stored in that room escaped unharmed.

When I was sorting through them, I found a large envelop that I had forgotten I had. It must have been twenty years or more since I had last looked at it It contained a story my mother had written about the upstairs armadillo and Charles Alexander.

I read the story. It wasn’t very long. It was really just the beginning of a story. That night I fell asleep thinking about the upstairs armadillo and Charles Alexander. In the morning I began writing.

The result was “Never Get A Wizard Mad At You” Book One in the Upstairs Armadillo Series.

It is available through my web site: theclickercenter.com
And through Amazon. Get it as an ebook through Kindle Unlimited.