About The Author

C. M. Courteau lives in Manhattan Beach, California with his wife Diana, daughter Duval, son Jimmy, and the family’s pets. At the age of fifteen the actor/art collector Vincent Price selected C. M.’s pen & ink drawing as the best of show out of 12,000 multimedia entries. At the age of seventeen he was awarded an art scholarship to Chouinard Institute of the Arts. His peers and classmates, including Emerson Wolfer and Mike Kunimitsu, considered him one of the best pen & ink artists of their time.

After graduation, C.M. took his talent for art for granted and joined the rat race of the corporate world, working for several high profile fortune 500 corporations. He went on to marry Diana, a lawyer from USC Law School and then graduated from law school himself.

C.M. and Diana adopted two children, a Puerto Rican boy and an African-American girl, at birth. Only with the encouragement of his children did he return to his passion for drawing and story telling. The Bat That Lost Its Ping was originally conceived as a bedtime story to help his children understand that being a family is about coming together to help and support one another.

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Excerpt from Chapter 7