An Epigrammatist’s Epic Edification

About the Book

It all started one late night in February of 2013 while I was playing City Story Metro, one of my favorite online simulation games on my iPad. This game requires you to communicate with others in order to build your city. One person in the community always answered in a tongue twister, and I thought that was very clever. I decided that I wanted to try my hand at it. The initial process had me laughing so hard that I gave myself a headache. I thought, “I am really on to something here”. Once I started posting my tongue twisters as responses, the community went nuts! People were saving my days-of-the-week tongue twisters in their inboxes for weeks! After a period of time, someone suggested I not post anymore and have them published. “What a great idea!” I thought. I immediately stopped all postings of them. A few months later, I got the idea of incorporating my tongue twisters into greeting cards. I proceeded to make my first one, and the recipient just loved it! Spurred on by their enthusiastic response, I then proceeded to send out more to friends and family. They loved theirs as well. One text from my sister-in-law said, “Best. Birthday. Card. Ever! Thank you so much!” That was confirmation for me to attempt a business with this. Since then, I have sold some and have made many more. Now I am branching out into other greeting card occasions such as Mother’s/Father’s Day cards, Valentine’s Day cards, and thank-you cards, just to name a few.

About the Author

My Story - A Tongue Twister's Tantalizing Tale Touted It all started one late night in February of 2013 while I was playing City Story Metro, one of my favorite Online simulation games on my iPad. This game requires you to communicate with others in order to build your city. One person in the community always answered in a tongue twister and I thought that was very clever. I decided that I wanted to try my hand at it. The initial process had me laughing so hard that I gave myself a headache. I thought, "I am really on to something here". Once I started posting my tongue twisters as responses, the community went nuts! People were saving my Days-of-the-Week tongue twisters in their inboxes for weeks! After a period of time, someone suggested I not post anymore and have them published. "What a great idea!", I thought. I immediately stopped all postings of them. A few months later I got the idea of incorporating my tongue twisters into greeting cards. I proceeded to make my first one and the recipient just loved it! Spurred on by their enthusiastic response, I then proceeded to send out more to friends and family. They loved theirs as well. One text from my sister-in-law said, "Best. Birthday. Card. Ever! Thank you so much!" That was confirmation for me to attempt a business with this. Since then, I have sold some and have made many more. Now, I am branching out into other greeting card occasions such as Mother's/Father's Day cards, Valentine's Day & Thank You cards just to name a few. My reason for doing this is very simple. We have all bought greeting cards of some sort and they largely say the same thing. However, a lot of them pertain to half the planet, have very little to no re-readability and are thrown out soon thereafter! AND YOU KNOW WE HAVE ALL DONE THIS! ADMIT IT! My cards are made to "stick around" quite a bit longer. The process is simply. Supply a few bits of information including the person's name, birthday in current year, (age if you want), current job/profession or hobby/pastime (whichever one is more fun to remember) and leave the rest to me. Who says you can't learn something new and have a great time simultaneously!? Side effects may include, but are not limited to, learning a new word with a light chuckle all the way up to a heavy chortle by all that participate! And, if so many people around me have already enjoyed my work, why not put it in a book and make the world laugh too? You'll find samples of my past work on TheCreativeExtreme.com but my goal is to create cards tailored specifically for you or your recipient. For more information, samples and to get a quote for your own personal fictional greeting card, contact me at anfitrisaty@yahoo.com with GREETING CARD as the subject. Thank you for reading my book and I hope to hear from you soon. Until then, stay tuned, be well and laugh hard! -Anthony The Epigrammatist