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Dance Like a DecoBelle
Inspired by Alma Archer's popular series from the 1930s, How to Be Smart and Charming, this is the first book in the "DecoBelle Series."As a founding member of the DecoBelles historic dance troupe, Kristen am writing this series to entertain and enlighten current, former and future DecoBelles, Deco Dames, and anyone who loves Art Deco Era women's culture.
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by Kristen Caven (Little Pig Productions, 2013; Uplift Press 2015)What if Cinderella didn’t have dainty little feet?
What if Cinderella’s fairy godmother was kind of a drag?
What if Cinderella actually found her voice?
Meet Ashley St. Helens, whose “fairytale life” is a rollercoaster of teenage emotion, but love helps her escape her dysfunctional 21st century family.
This novella is available in three versions including an enhanced ebook with embedded music and videos.
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based on the musical by Kristen Caven and Michael O'Dell
Perfectly Revolting: My Glamorous Cartooning Career
by Kristen Baumgardner Caven(Little Pig Productions, 2010)
A cartoon-filled memoir about creativity and academia, women's brains, boys and lack thereof, and the joys and heartaches of cartooning. Features Inside the Mills Revolution, the only cartoon history of the 1990 student strike at Mills College, which was the only successful reversal of a womens college decision to go co-ed.
The Reason She Left & Other Stories
by Kristen Baumgardner Caven(Little Pig Productions, 2011)Click Here to Learn More! At last, the "Graphic Novelties" readers were teased with in Perfectly Revolting are all collected in one volume! Includes the princess dream story, the Atomic Comic, martial arts advice, and of course the rare philosophical comic, The Reason She Left!$13.99 • ebook
(featuring Emily Egg) (Little Pig Productions, 2012)
Really bad advice. But funny.
Buy one copy for $5 here.
Get 10 for $20 here.
99¢ Kindle edition here.
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(organizations can get their logo printed on book.)
A Match Made in Utero:
The Real World Adventures of Sammy Sperm AND Emily Egg's Guide To Fashion(Touché Productions, 1995)Read more info and order here!
with Dr. Louise Hart (Hazelden, 2013)How parents can create stronger children and change the world with positive parenting practices. “FOCUSES ON RAISING MENTALLY HEALTHY CHILDREN.”
—Publisher's Weekly
"Provides parents with knowledge."
—Dr. Rick Hanson
"Focuses on solutions."
—Dr. Laura Markham
by Dr. Louise Hart (with Kristen Caven)(Uplift Press, 2012)A guide to personal transformation for those who need to recover their self-esteem. $12.95
by Dr. Louise Hart(who graciously gave me a writing credit for the new edition. Also illustrated by me...and practiced on me!)(Celestial Arts, 1995)Click to learn more about a book that will help you transform yourself into the person you want to be as you raise your kids.$14.95
a mini-comic about a big idea; a visual poem that puts human development in the continuum of cosmic consciousness. INCLUDED in The Reason She Left.Only $1.00Click here for free download & MORE.
E-Book: Inside the Mills Revolution
by Kristen Baumgardner Caven This cartoon journal won a first place prize in the 1990 Bay Guardian cartoon contest, catapulting its author into a glamorous international careerFREE on Scribd!