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Peanuts Tales Sought
Your stories to be shared in tribute book to Charles Schultz, creator of Peanuts
Charles “Sparky” Schulz gave the world fifty years of happiness and the book, Security Blankets, is one small way of saying thank you Sparky -- for making this a better world for us all.
Don Fraser, a former Peanuts master licensee for more than 35 years, and co-founder of Aviva Enterprises and founder of Inetics, Inc., and Derrick Bang, author of 50 Years of Happiness: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz and Charles M. Schulz: Li’l Beginnings, have embarked on a new project that requires weeklyphil reader’s input.
Security Blankets: How Peanuts Touched Our Lives will be a collection of heartwarming, poignant, uplifting and celebratory tales of how Schulz and his characters – Charlie Brown, Snoopy and all the rest – have made an impact on us all. Andrews & McMeel, a long-time participant in the Peanuts franchise, will publish the book.
The authors are seeking short anecdotes – between 500 and 600 words – that reveal how Peanuts has made a difference in one’s life.
The narrative must be written in the first person (“I’ve loved Snoopy since…”), and it must concern a truly pivotal event in the writer’s relationship with the Peanuts gang. Fraser and Bang aren’t after a list of someone’s enormous collection, or a short saga about how you adopted a beagle and named it Snoopy. They want events and encounters that transformed you and/or your loved ones: a story that shares how Charlie Brown and his friends became an integral part of your life. For their part, contributors will receive credit and a copy of the finished book.
The authors have heard from folks who still own the plush Snoopy they received during a traumatic hospital stay; or exchanged the same Peanuts greeting card, back and forth, for years and years; or, while serving in the Armed Forces overseas, received a Peanuts card or item at an important moment.
Fraser and Bang also hope to accompany each story with a relevant photograph that shows (for example) a beloved plush Snoopy owned since childhood, or the hand-crafted outdoor Peanuts Christmas decoration that has become a neighborhood fixture. Such photos should be of good quality, and suitable for reproduction, but they should not be sent along unless requested after initial contact. peanutsstories.com