• This is Chapter 2 of Generation Moon – case you missed it, you can see chapter 1 here:

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    Glenn looks back to the day strangers came to meet him and suggest he might like to come with them to take a look at the International Space School, Ty Bryn, in the mountainous Welsh countryside.

    Who will be the first kid in Space and on the MOON? Find out as I read this exciting middle-grade trilogy.

    Shoo says, “There are children in school today who will grow up to live and work on the MOON! This story is for them.”

    Watch the full story on my YouTube channel! But if you love ad-free storytelling with text and illustrations to follow along, join me my Shoo Rayner Story Club for exclusive access to my stories, bonus content, and fun activities!

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  • My Youtube follower @MostlyLoveOfMusic said they were having trouble trying to get AI to make an image of a bicycle made of cheese.

    “…it will give some hybrid bicycle/cheese shape, but I couldn’t get it to draw something with the shape of a bicycle but the texture/material of cheese. You had any better luck with this sort of thing?”

    I thought it might be the way they wrote the prompt. Their question suggested to me a very simple prompt, which I thought gave me a couple of images that I felt fit the brief and and art director would be happy to use – especially if they aren’t paying an illustrator.

    What do you think of these two images from DAll•E/Chat GPT?

    And this colour version?


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    Who will be the first kid in Space and on the MOON? Find out as I read this exciting middle-grade trilogy.

    Chapter One – Glenn looks back on his short life as his oxygen runs out.

    He’s on the Moon, but not for long. Come back for Chapter Two and find out how Glenn’s astronaut journey began.

    Shoo says, “There are children in school today who will grow up to live and work on the MOON! This story is for them.”

    Watch the full story on my YouTube channel! But if you love ad-free storytelling with text and illustrations to follow along, join me my Shoo Rayner Story Club for exclusive access to my stories, bonus content, and fun activities!

    Join my newsletter to know when Chapter Two becomes available.