On: Friday 27th October 2023
Title: Magic Sounds
Author: Alexandra Tesoriero
ISBN: 978-0-9876451-3-5
was listed with authors-books.
Updated: Friday 5th June 2026
Listed: Magic Sounds
Tag: Alexandra Tesoriero
Listed: The Wise Little Owl
On: Wednesday 18th April 2018
Title: The Wise Little Owl
Author: Alexandra Tesoriero
ISBN: 978-0-9876451-1-1
was listed with authors-books.
Updated: Friday 5th June 2026
Listed: The Cheeky Possum
On: Thursday 29th March 2018
Title: The Cheeky Possum
Author: Alexandra Tesoriero
ISBN: 978-0-9876451-0-4
was listed with authors-books.
Updated: Friday 5th June 2026
Google Books Blind Alley
Photo by Diego Romeo on Unsplash
Help Google Books
This is episode 3 of our Google education effort. Have you read episode 1, Global Ghosts Afterlife? Therein we explore some difficulties you may encounter if you change your domain name. In episode 2 Google Ghosts Trap we look at another manifestation of ectoplasm in which authors-book has become enmeshed.
Now authors-books would like to help Google Books find more books and not lead to a Google Books Blind Alley. We have tried to communicate, but an elephant can be haughty and not hear the ant.
Google Books Blind Alley One
Moo ….. Molly Moo ….. Molly Moo from Mollymook!
Here’s the irony.
Just do any internet search for Molly Moo from Mollymook and the page 1, probably number 1, result will be authors-books.
But, search for Molly Moo from Mollymook with either classic Google Books, or the new Google Books and the results will be of no help at all for you to purchase the book.
The problem is clear to see. Google Books is looking in the wrong place for many books. So classic Google Books is implying that Amazon, Booktopia, Dymocks and Fishpond might be good places to look and the new Google Books is offering Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and Amazon. But authors-books can tell you, you’re wasting your time, because at authors-books we personally know the author and know that we are now the sole stockist.
We’d be happy to so inform Google Books if only there was a way to do so. A way for the Ant to talk to the Elephant. Surely, it wouldn’t be difficult if the Elephant, with his big beautiful ears and sensitive trunk, just decided to reach out and listen?
Google Books Blind Alley Two
While Google Books was no help to someone wanting to purchase Molly Moo from Mollymook, or indeed any of the other titles by Sue Hays, at least it mentioned Monty the Mutt from Milton and Peppy the Paint from Pigeon House as other titles by the author.
However, This is Michael by Dian Hammond is unknown to Google Books. Although, it is listed in The National Library of Australia catalogue.
Now in the case of This is Michael, as well as purchasing it from authors-books, you can also buy it in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia at Collins Booksellers. Once again unknown to Google Books. If only Google Books could easily be told.
This is Michael is an entrant in the Able Golden Book Awards 2025. The author, Dian Hammond has been notified that This is Michael is a Finalist in the Awards.
Google Books Blind Alley Three
The concept for authors-books came about on discovering the difficulty of distributing a book other than through well established publisher to distributor to wholesaler to bookshop relationships. Also, on hearing some of the difficulties of self-publishing and worse, vanity publishing.
This reality was kindly explained to us by John at The Book Room Collective in Byron Bay. On vacation enjoying the Queensland sunshine, it was time to dream. What crystallised you can read here about us authors-books.
Not easily deterred and on a mission our publishing imprint Data Stream Pty Limited has now published two more children’s books by Alexandra Tesoriero: The Wise Little Owl and Magic sounds.
Yet, while all three books can be found through Google Books, yet again it is a Google Books Blind Alley. There is NO useful suggestion on where these books can be purchased. We did try to give feedback to Google Books, pointing out that Google’s own search engine has no difficulty finding these titles, usually number 1 on page 1, for purchase at authors-books. But sadly, at Google the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. While this is laudable for carrying out works of charity (Matthew 6:3), surely it is tiresome when the Google Books claim is to be able to “Search the world’s most comprehensive index of full-text books.”
Please Let Us Educate the Elephant
The elephant, with a long memory, so beautiful, wise and knowledgeable, please let us educate you. Please don’t be a Google Books Blind Alley, we’d like to help. It wouldn’t be difficult would it? Just a simple form.
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Google Books Blind Alley No More
Google Books, you can be in the vanguard! Do not be the Google Books Blind Alley. Be the Elephant that lets the Ants help you. Be all hearing, all seeing of:
- New models of book distribution
- Country based and regional booksellers
- Community publishing groups and enterprises
authors-books is a new paradigm online book seller
A new model of book distribution where you will find many authors and titles not available elsewhere.
Although not always consciously recognized, book publishing and distribution is a lottery for new authors. Works of great distinction can be unrecognized for years, decades or lifetimes.
Dip into Authors’ Books and who knows what treasure you will find from an author determined to speak?
When you buy a book here many of our authors will send you a signed copy with the personal inscription you ask for!
Are you an author who would like to have your book(s) for sale here? Please read about The Authors’ Community which tells you how you can apply.
Country based and regional booksellers
As noted above in Google Books Blind Alley Two, people can buy This Is Michael in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia at Collins Booksellers. Wouldn’t it be helpful if that possibility was presented by Google Books? Why not? Why not indeed. We have here suggested the solution for greatly enriching Google Books with missing information encompassing country based and regional booksellers to make Google Books so much better.
Community publishing groups and enterprises
We were recently inspired by another example of Changing Australia on hearing about Kids’ Own Publishing. How wonderful if all the books at this and other community endeavours were findable through Google Books. And once more the left hand hasn’t let the right hand know what it’s doing.
So we just picked the first book, A Quack in Time, in the Kids’ Own Publishing Book Shop. You can do the Google search for the title. Yes there it is at search result number 1, the book launch. And at number 3 on Instagram. Kids’ Own Publishing is professional, they’ve done the hard yards and certainly would have told Google Books had they had access to the Google Books Index Advice. Simple as ABC Alphabet. Go get’m Google.
authors-books Google Education Series
Past episodes
Have you read episode 1, Global Ghosts Afterlife? Therein we explore some difficulties you may encounter if you change your domain name. In episode 2 Google Ghosts Trap we look at another manifestation of ectoplasm in which authors-book has become enmeshed.
Future episodes?
Maybe. Currently considering our struggles with the Google Merchant Center.
The Cheeky Possum Grammar Notes
This Publisher’s Grammar Notes and References for Punctuation and Capitalization
In text editing for grammar we aim to be both consistent and only to change the author’s text where it seems necessary to avoid a glaring error. In consequence, we keep as close as possible to the author’s work. The Cheeky Possum text rhymes, so we have looked for grammar practices acceptable in poetry, which offer greater latitude than prose.
We hope these notes are useful to encourage the exploration of writing style and rules. Text editing … ugh!
Run-on Sentences, Comma Faults, …
Arguments can be mounted that the opening sentence of The Cheeky Possum should be multiple sentences, but we find it a great introduction to Peter and only when he’s given us his substance, do we stop and digest it. Before coming to this conclusion, a number of articles published on the web were considered:
- The Run-on sentences paragraph of the article in The Huffington Post titled “These Famous Authors Made It Okay To Commit Grammar No-No’s”.
- In Stan Carey’s Sentence first blog, see “in fiction, poetry, and other imaginative literary forms you may occasionally encounter comma faults used deliberately to create special effects …”.
- The opening paragraph of Two Hussars by Leo Tolstoy: “Early in the nineteenth century, when there were as yet no railways or macadamized roads, no gaslight, no stearine candles, …” found in Wikisource.
Capitalization in Poetry and ‘ise’ or ‘ize’
On capitalization of the first word of a line in poetry, as exhibited in The Cheeky Possum, we cite Alberto Rios writing on the subject. Further, on our spelling of the word ‘capitalization’ in British and Australian English, we cite The Conversation article on the use of ‘ise’ and ‘ize’.
Should there be a Comma before a Quote?
Should there always be a comma before quotes? Not necessarily according to the Sesquiotica blog. Apart from stand-alone, speech quoted sentences in The Cheeky Possum, all other speech can be viewed as anecdotal, broad-view description.
Capital Letter for a Quote in a Sentence?
The Grammar Monster says, “There is a lot of leniency on the use of capital letters for quotations embedded in sentences. So we’ve allowed: He said ”hey now, this is proof, there’s hippos landing on my head!”. The rendering on the page gives the utterance a dreamy quality as of someone suddenly awoken.
Said but not Spoken, No Quotation Marks?
There is an example of something described as, said, that is without quotation marks, that we have allowed. Its usage is immediate and climatic, and is the thought that Bridgette has, namely: look up there; it’s a possum on a wire. This we take not to be an utterance, but her reaction to the situation. To support this contention, we note that quoted dialogue follows this reaction.
My stories are dedicated to my daughters Aria and Avery
It’s exciting that The Cheeky Possum is about to be printed and will be available by my dad’s eightieth birthday bash.
She’s a very tidy teenager
We’re nearing the end of The Cheeky Possum and it’s time to reflect on what we’ve seen and heard. Of course, within the story, the characters too are reflecting and drawing their own conclusions. Here we’re touching on an aspect of the magic of reading to your children. We are nurturing their intellectual development in many ways.
So we have the story, the reader and the listeners. With a picture book the listeners may also be looking and thinking about the illustrations. One looker and thinker, Aria says, of the illustration of Bridgette tucked up inside her bed, “She’s a very tidy teenager!”.
Avery and Aria spot the kangaroo
It’s storytime and the lights are low. We’re reading a pre-publication mockup of The Cheeky Possum, a real favourite with Avery. We’re in cheeky possum world, so most of the illustrations are moonlit. This is Peter, the cheeky possum’s favourite playground. A world of shadow and revelation, where the girls notice for the first time there is, in the picture, a kangaroo hopping. Thank you to Derek Dadswell for the wonderful mood and graphic presentation of these illustrations.