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marc severson

August 28, 2019

“Don’t Throw Me in the Cholla Patch” featured on Publishers Weekly Cover

An Arizona-based book from The Small-Tooth-Dog Publishing Group is one of only a handful of titles from Independent Publishers to appear on the September 2, 2019, cover of “Publishers Weekly” magazine. “Don’t Throw Me in the Cholla Patch,” written by Tucson’s Marc Severson and illustrated by Franceso Orazzini, was chosen as one of just 17 books from a curated field of 40 books.

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May 8, 2019

Interview with Author Marc Severson

“That’s a great question. When I was an archeologist, I used to be out in the Sonoran desert and I’d find these piles of brush and such. They were surrounded by cholla. I always wondered about them. The fellow that I was doing the survey with said they were woodrat nests. I just thought, “Wow, what a fascinating creature.” They can bring cholla to its nest to protect it from all the other animals.”

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