PappyDeez · author of Four Little PIGS, Lockout Club, & Bill Cosgrove. The Warden's Grimoire Press. Where every story teaches.
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May 22
Hello. I'm @pappydeez. I write books, and I keep them on a shelf called The Warden's Grimoire Press.
From the warden's shelf. Where every story teaches.
A children's book lands first. Adult mysteries follow. More soon.
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Four shelves are filling up:
— Picture books (Four Little Pigs, ages 4–10)
— Children's mysteries (Rosemary & Sage)
— YA suspense (Lockout Club)
— Adult procedurals (Bill Cosgrove)
One imprint. Four heights of reader. Every one of them learns something.
#WardensGrimoire #KidLit
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Jun 8
Why "warden"? Because a warden keeps watch over things worth keeping.
The grimoire is the book. The shelf is the imprint. The watch is the standard: nothing leaves this press that doesn't carry something useful out the door.
#WardensGrimoire #BookTwitter
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Jun 1
I drafted *Four Little Pigs* during the slow hour after the kids went to bed.
One chapter a night. Six nights. Then six months of trimming until every sentence earned its chair by the fire.
Most of writing is the trimming. None of the trimming is the fun part.
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May 25
The Warden's Grimoire Press is built like a single shelf.
Picture books for the four-year-olds. Mysteries for the ten-year-olds. Suspense for the teenagers. Thrillers for the grown-ups.
One family of stories, four heights of reader. Same warden. Same shelf.
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May 23
I write because the books I most needed as a kid weren't on the shelf. So I'm putting them there.
The first one is for the four-year-olds. The next ones reach further up. Same warden. Same shelf.
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May 22
The imprint has one rule: every story has to teach something honest.
Not preach. Not lecture. Just leave the reader with one true thing they didn't have at page one.
That's the whole brief. The genres can do whatever they want from there.
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May 20
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May 8
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May 8
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May 7
Illustrated books that quietly teach digital security and financial literacy to kids and grown-ups alike — from The Warden's Grimoire Press by @PappyDeez pappydeezig.com/the-wardens-…
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May 7
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