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MST Company types the words that go into the rectangular-shaped, paper-based widgets that generally sit on shelves collecting dust. One day soon you will be able to buy them --truck loads of them! -- and then, and only then, after weeks of mirthful entertainment, will your life be complete.

In 2007, excerpts from our first two novels were featured in Crow Toes Quarterly Literary Magazine. 2008 has more in store from Crow Toes, starting with the Winter issue available this January, followed by another excerpt in the Spring issue.

Crow Toes Quarterly is the only magazine of playfully dark literature written for children ages 8-13 available today. It publishes intelligent children's literature -- the type of stories that inspire its readers to continue reading and write themselves -- and is published in a highly sophisticated, full-color glossy format. You can find it at your local galleria, and if not, at select Chapters bookstores or one of fifty other nifty magazine and book shops across Canada. Visit the website: www.crowtoes.com for subscription information and plenty of interactive fun.

Super Rupert (February 2009)

The Part with the Shadow Puppets and Some Talk of Fluffy Pancakes

Rupert is back to his old antics again, making a return to Crow Toes Quarterly as a Superhero with an amazing team of super bears. In only three thousand words, Rupert gets dressed, sort of outsmarts a Bridge Troll with bad teeth, battles the sugar rum fairies, and meets his old arch nemesis, the Snox. Of course, there's also much talk of those fluffy pancakes. Too good to miss and still available from Crow Toes Quarterly.

An Excerpt from The Wickedly Wealthy Charley Forbes Franchise (April 2008)

Lemons Don’t Grow on Trees

The Wickedly Wealthy Charley Forbes Franchise is the story of four kids that start a business because their parents have been made obsolete by technology. Charley Forbes is the son of an English typewriter repairman. When his family loses their house, they are forced to the streets, and Charley must attend a new school: a free, corporately-sponsored one called the Piccadilly Cola Academy®. It’s a wastefully magical institution with cola fountains and candy avenues. Quite frankly, it’s super-frallycactus-caffeinated-cool-charged-picadilly-icious! The school life of Charley and his friends is contrasted by the realities of their homelessness. This novel opening chapter proves once and for all that lemons (like dollars) don’t grow on trees.

Guest Narrator: Forward for the Winter Issue (January 2008)

Despite too many responsibilities at M.S.T. Company already, the President and Head Typist still found the time in his day and the space in his heart to do the Narrator of Crow Toes Quarterly a huge, enormous, stupendously giant favour: write the forward for the Winter Issue while he and his staff went on a road trip across the country.

A Fresh Slice from March of the Fat Babies (July 2007)

March of the Fat Babies is a contemporary fable that takes place in the imaginary world of Gleeza, a grassy knoll covered with Yaks and surrounded by ocean. It is a world made up by a hungry, little girl named Verity. When the town Shmoozle learns how to exploit Yak milk by hooking the Gleezian babies on cheesecake, the children get fat. The only problem for the Shmoozle is that Trout Amoeba is different. He is lactose intolerant! M.O.T.F.B. features the unlikely duo of Spurge, the Dandelion with Arachnophobia, and his best friend, Allen the Spider. It is also decadently illustrated by Kristian Adam.

Hearsay from Rupert Greenwood (January 2007)

Rupert Greenwood celebrates Christmas every day of the year, and he thinks you should, too. This whimsical tale, ornamented by Kristian Adam and narrated by a tiny, black mouse, follows Rupert and his dog, Komit, through ten chapters of a peculiar February the Third Christmas, in which Rupert encounters a Snox that’s not as stuffy as he appears and a large cast of other troublesome characters.