The Giggle Kitties: Author Robert Eluck on Writing his latest book & Future Plans

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Interview with Robert Eluck – Author of "The Giggle Kitties" | Dream Chasers Radio  Join Yaya Diamond on Dream Chasers Radio as she chats with Robert Eluck, the creative mind behind the delightful children’s book The Giggle Kitties. Discover how Robert turned a simple idea into a fun-filled story full of laughter, imagination, and clever puns inspired by classic comedy. Learn about his unique writing process, the inspiration behind his characters, and his plans to expand The Giggle Kitties into a series and even a cartoon adaptation!  Whether you're a parent, educator, or aspiring author, this episode is packed with inspiring insights on creativity, humor, and following your dreams.  📚 Find The Giggle Kitties on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and more! 🎥 Don’t forget to check out the book trailer on YouTube! 🔗 Links and QR codes available in the video. https://podopshost.com/yayadiamond   ⚡ VidChapter AI generated these chapters, try it out https://vidchapter.com/?affiliate=yayadiamond Recommended podcast platform get 10% off: https://podopshost.com/register/?ref=yaya   Tools and Services I use: Appsumo has the best lifetime deals ever!!! I love this site.  appsumo.8odi.net/yayadiamond The easiest way to make your graphics: https://buff.ly/2RTQLn0 Best website for musicians. Try it for free on me: https://buff.ly/2GMYugG Make money with Fiverr.com: https://buff.ly/2KjTVvV   Our Amazon store: https://buff.ly/34RYNlm DISCLAIMER: Links included in this description might be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide I may receive a small commission. My affiliate links usually provide either a free trial or discount so go try them out on me! Thank you for supporting DreamChasersRadio.com  so I can continue to provide you with free content each week! Privacy Policy: https://buff.ly/2XSrflS ™Yaya Diamond Red Hot Reality Ent. LLC

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00:00Hey guys, it's me, Yaya Diamond. What's up? Thank you for watching. This is a great show

00:20right here. We have amazing guests, people who are going after their dreams, their goals,

00:24their visions, their books, books, children's books, adult books, reality books, memoirs,

00:31everything that you can think of right here on Dream Chasers Radio for all of the people who

00:35still and really truly appreciate the time that people put into their work to put it down in a

00:42book to give it to other people so that they can advance themselves and learn about things and

00:48learn and actually study tests. I mean, there's still just so many books. There's just a

00:54plethora, a plethora. I love saying that word. And I have Robert E. Luck. Yes, his last name is Luck.

01:01I'm hoping to get some of that rubbed off on me today as he's here with us today to talk about

01:07his book. Thank you very, very, very much. I've got to go to your book here. It is Google. Was that

01:14giggles and doodles? I can't read that. What was that? The Giggle Kitties. The Giggle Kitties. Oh my gosh.

01:21We're going to have to fix that. The Giggle Kitties. I absolutely love that. Thank you so much for

01:26being here. I appreciate that so very much. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

01:32So tell me, okay, so there's got to be something leading up to this book. What was it?

01:40Well, it was the fact that I was talking to a co-worker about another project I was thinking

01:48about. Try to, you know, earn a little extra money on the side and found out that that idea was already

01:56copyrighted. I said, well, we're not going to let that stop. I said, heck, I could think of something

02:01around the top of my head. And for some reason, Giggle Kitties popped in there. I said, how about the

02:06Giggle Kitties? A bunch of kids that laugh all the time and we'll have them go to museums and the zoo

02:12and just make fun of it. And I think my co-worker there didn't think I was going to follow up on

02:19this. And I had to prove it wrong, learn anything. That's it. That's it. Wow. Wow. That is so cool.

02:27I mean, I think that writing for children is like the best thing because it really does bring

02:33your imagination back after being an adult so long. I don't like adulting anymore.

02:38Yeah. I really don't. I really don't. So tell me about this book. What is in this book? And I want

02:43to laugh. Is this kind of like one of those funny books? Cheap puns. That's my forte is cheap puns.

02:51My mother had six brothers. And boy, they grew up watching Laurel and Hardy and the Three Stooges.

02:59Oh, I love them. All those 40s and 50s comedies. And it just rubbed off. And I grew up watching them,

03:08too. And some British comedy, the Mighty Python series. Oh, my teacher made us watch that.

03:16Yeah. I didn't like that very much. I thought it was silly. It's different. It's a different type

03:21of humor for sure. Definitely. No, I just find a book that was not too, you know, political,

03:31religious, just kids having fun, you know, making, just kids being kids. Wow. Something they can relate

03:38to. Definitely, definitely. So let me ask you, okay, so how did you come up with the names Kia,

03:43Carly, Jackson, James, and Trinity? Well, Kia was my coworker who I talked to about this and

03:54the one that didn't think I was going to go through with it all. So I had to give her top billing.

03:59And Carly is my grandniece. Had to get her in the book. And then I have a girlfriend that has three

04:07kids. And that came up with Jackson, James, and Trinity. So I rounded it out. Nice. Nice. And you

04:16got to get your girlfriend. If you don't do that, you're going to be sleeping on the couch.

04:20Oh, don't I know it.

04:22So what is the main message and the theme that you want to get across with the book?

04:27Just define humor in anything. Not so much that they, they do kind of poke fun at the animals, but

04:36you know, it's, nobody is getting hurt. Nobody, we're not poking fun at the other kids. We're not

04:43trying to bully. We're just trying to have fun, you know? I got you. I got you. So like, who represents

04:52you in the book? Like I've, I've seen so many different authors and had so many different

04:56authors in the show. And they always tell me some, someone, some character was, was them in the book.

05:03So is that true for you? Well, if anyone, the farmer, the farmer John, he shows the kids around to

05:14all the various animals. And, you know, I kind of like that with my nieces and nephews,

05:19the older gentlemen and got to show them around and do things. And so, yeah, I can kind of relate

05:26to them. Awesome. Awesome. I like that. I like that. Are you going to write another kid's book?

05:31Have you ever written any other books? Nope. This is my first, first crack at it.

05:37Oh, that's so cool. So how does it feel to be a published author?

05:43Uh, kind of overwhelming, to be honest with you. Just, you know, the whole process of

05:47getting the idea accepted and seeing it in, going into print and, uh, knowing that, uh,

05:55I can go from here with, you know, I have other ideas, other books in the series, if we go that

06:01route, but, uh, just, uh, gonna have fun with it and see where it goes.

06:07That is so cool. I love that. I love it. Okay. So you said a book in the series. This is a series?

06:13Not yet. I mean, I have. Okay. But you're going to make it into the series?

06:17Well, we'll see. They, uh, I talked to some folks with, uh, dream books,

06:25media professionals, and we're looking at a book to film adaptation. So I'll need a screenplay for

06:31that. And that would kind of take up, I guess, the other books in this series

06:37to, to, to make it a, a feature-length film. Right, right.

06:42So what's the, what's the, so you, you said, okay, so it's a feature-length film. Like how long

06:47will it be? Will it be like a series of films or, or like, uh, like a cartoon series? Or will it

06:53just be like a big cartoon? I'd like to see it as a cartoon series. I think it's got potential.

06:59Yeah. Um, I kind of like the idea of when, uh, Bill Cosby had his show on the Cosby kids,

07:07how he said, yo, if you're not careful, you might learn something.

07:11Yeah. And, uh, I kind of thinking the same thing, just, uh, have these kids go on various trips and

07:16just living life and, uh, laughing about things, but, you know, maybe learn something in the end too.

07:21Definitely. Definitely. So what's the age group that you're going after with this?

07:27Well, I don't think most preschoolers or first or second graders would know what puns are or would

07:34catch, you know, a joke like that. So I'm thinking like third and fourth graders and up would, would

07:41catch some of the jokes. That's cool though. I like that. How, how do your, how do your children

07:49like the book or your, do you have grandchildren? Uh, I don't, I don't have any children myself,

07:55but my, my sister has four kids. That's enough. Yeah. Yeah. That's enough. Your uncle,

08:03we're stopping by today. We're bringing all four kids. Yeah. That's yeah. That's enough.

08:08My girlfriend's got five kids actually. Oh goodness. And so, but three of them were in,

08:13you know, listed in the book there. Um, so what was the question again? No, I'm just saying how

08:23did they like it? Did they like it? Yeah. Oh yeah. They're ecstatic over it. They like seeing their

08:29name in print and it's, it was, you know, about them kind of, right. Not there, somebody else or some

08:38other school, school pal. It's, that's them in the flesh. So exactly. That's something they'll have

08:44forever. Uh huh. You, you're right. You're right. And it'll go on even beyond them. You know, I was

08:51thinking, you know, writing the writing part and then writing a new one. How do you go about writing?

08:58I mean, what is your writing process? It's, I sit down at the table, I put the pen to paper and I just go,

09:05I just, I will not stop until I get done with it. Really? So how long did it take you to do this book?

09:12Oh, about an hour. It just, it just came to me. Just once I started, I couldn't stop.

09:20I remember back in high school, I wrote a couple of little short stories and some plays for our

09:26high school yearbook, which didn't get accepted by the way, but you know, I tried, but I just,

09:31just once I started, I couldn't stop. I just, I wasn't about to put the paint, the pen down and

09:39come back a couple of weeks later and get into again. It's like, it just from start to finish,

09:45you know, an hour or so. That is so cool. That is so cool. What kind of advice do you give to writers

09:51who want to be like you, like an hour and it's done? Like I'm done. It's a kid's book. I'm done.

09:57Well, that's just how I am. I just know that the creative process, I had the ideas in there,

10:04but once I started writing, they just came to me and I just kept writing and putting it down on paper

10:08and of course, you know, read my chicken scratch because I was going pretty quick.

10:14You know, that might not work for the next person, but just, you know, have that goal in mind,

10:20what you want to accomplish and don't stop until you finish it. Definitely. Definitely. Wow.

10:26Wow. Wow. Well, thank you so much for being on the show. Is there anything else you would like

10:31to say besides where your book might be, you know, purchased or looked at?

10:37Um, that's through the regular outlets, you know, Barnes and Nobles and Amazon. And

10:46I think I just got my video trailer here a couple of days ago on YouTube.

10:51Nice. I'm getting some views on that. So, you know, that's exciting. And,

10:57you know, I got some people rooting for me there at work and, uh,

11:01we'll just, uh, just have to see how it goes.

11:02Definitely. Definitely. Well, I want to thank you so much for being on the show

11:07and with your presence, Mr. Luck.

11:09I hope you have lots of luck with this book.

11:15I got to use that in the book, don't I? I got to get that.

11:16Yes, you do. You definitely do. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Mr. Luck.

11:20You have to, I mean, no one can like take that from you because you are Mr. Luck.

11:26Yes, ma'am.

11:27Oh, wow. Wow. Well, thank you so much for being here. I appreciate you.

11:31We're going to have that QR code right there on the screen. So you guys can go ahead and see that

11:35and see right there. You can scan it with your phones. If you're, if you're watching on your,

11:39on your TV and you have your phone out, if not, we're going to be putting the link to the actual,

11:45uh, the actual link in Amazon for you guys to go ahead and go there and check it out for yourselves.

11:51I want to thank you guys so much for tuning in. Mr. Luck, thank you again so much for being here.

11:55I truly, truly, truly appreciate you. And thank you so much for what you do. We're looking forward to

12:00the next one. Okay. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Thank you. And thank you guys so much.

12:05Don't forget to dare to be different until next time guys. Bye.

12:08Bye.

12:09Bye.

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