Career
Boring has published 12 books and over 25 stories in such magazines as Highlights for Children and Cricket. Boring's first 12 fiction submissions to children's magazines received a total of 143 rejections with only one acceptance. He also spent 18 years as an Institute of Children's Literature instructor, teaching hundreds of his students how to write for children.
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