“The Odessa Chronicles”, a book of stories for children of all ages, will be released very shortly and is based around some interesting characters who live together at Moonbeam Farm.
There is Dewey. He is a cat. His main goal in life is to sleep and eat, both of which he is very good at. He gets served his meals and is generally treated like royalty, so it is understandable that he believes that he is in charge of everything at the farm.
Jaxon is a Jackalope … a unique creature (Jack Rabbit/Antelope X) with some magical powers. He is a very easy going kind of individual, but can be manipulative and, with his magical abilities, it is understandable that he believes he is discreetly in charge of everything at the farm.
Joshua is a human. He purchased the farm to fulfill his retirement dream, soon to realize that he was in fact going to be sharing it with three rather unusual characters. Of course it is his farm, so it is understandable that he believes he is in charge of everything there.
Odessa is a Barn Owl and, being the only female there, makes her superior intuitive qualities well known. She is very wise, being an owl, and will challenge the others if their use of language or their decision making abilities are flawed. It is therefore quite understandable that she believes she is in charge of everything at the farm, and has the attitude to be quite convincing!
The interactions of these four characters started off as an experimental expansion of an idea by Carolyn Shelton (https://joyroses13.wordpress.com/), and the resulting collaboration offered so much potential that “The Odessa Chronicles” was born!
A New Direction Perhaps? 
Best wishes on the release!
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Thank you Monika. It will be an interesting experience. 🙂
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OH yes, the big question, “Who does really run the show?” Not sure, it may vary on different days. 🙂 I do know that If any of them were left alone on Moonbeam Farm without the others that they would be quite sad! They need each other, and besides that, if Dewey was left alone, he would starve!
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Must get used to calling you Carolyn instead of Joy! Good luck with the book to you both!
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Thank you Di.
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Thank you! No worries, you can call me Joy, it’s fine. You can call me whatever you want. 🙂
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Bless you.
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Thanks Di 🙂
Yes, it is quite alright, “Joy” is my middle name and I have always liked it.
As long as you don’t call me “Caroline” we are fine. 🙂 LOL!
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I’ll stick with Joy then if that’s OK. Because I was abbreviated to Di, a couple of aunts thought for years I was a Dinah!
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Yes that is fine. 🙂
LOL on your Aunts thinking your name was Dinah. Do you prefer being called Di?
Names can have so many variations. My parents were going to name me Yvonne but they disagreed over how to pronounce it. HaHa!
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Much prefer Di to Diana. I was going to be Robert, Mum and Dad were so convinced I was going to be a boy. Then I turn up with the wrong plumbing and got named after the heroine in the book Mum was reading. I’ve always been grateful it wasn’t after the horse! Have always been Di though, apart from my great grandfather who called me his little Dido. Bro calls me ‘Our Kid’.
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Well that is cool to be named after a heroine. 🙂
I have known of other people named after characters in a book. Who knows, perhaps someday there will be lots of kids named after Odessa, Dewey and Jaxon! OH yes, and maybe Joshua will become more popular of a name too. 🙂
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I played darts with a lady called Jax (her name was Jackie and she hated it) and I know four Joshuas, all of them now in their thirties! Maybe The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will name their first boy Joshua as he will be a Lord rather than Prince.
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