Color Me Weird [Paperback]

Robert Tacoma (Author), ~Debi (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2007

Here's something different...
Color Me Weird is a twenty-chapter mystery with a drawing suitable for coloring at the end of each chapter making it possibly the world s first coloring novella.

Color Me Weird is the story of a young man's escape from winter to pursue his dream of becoming a tropical detective.

Walter Buffet expected Key West to be laid-back and festive with warm breezes and colorful locals. He also expected, or at least hoped for, murder. And there is indeed a murder case waiting for him. He just didn't expect to be the prime suspect.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Mango Press; 1st edition (September 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976063042
• ISBN-13: 978-0976063049
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #856,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #10 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Entertainment > Humor > Lawyers & Criminals
  • #45 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Graphic Novels > Mystery

More About the Author

Raised by skydivers, Robert Tacoma spent his formative years in central Florida public schools during the week and at various jump centers across the state on weekends. He also learned to fish the waters in and around the Sunshine State, so you could say he grew to appreciate Florida from the air and water as well as the land.
Though he has never been to Texas, Robert can usually find it on a map. He currently lives in north central Florida and all his pets have run away.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A coloring book and more!, September 16, 2011

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William A. Baity "Still Bill" (Florida swamp) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Color Me Weird (Kindle Edition)

I like these light adventures - no message, no gore. Robert Tacoma knows his South Florida fiction, so you will find references to Hiassen's ex Gov. Skink or maybe a description of Doc Ford's hangout. These novels are not as dark as Randy Wayne White's work, nor as wild and crazy as that of Tim Dorsey, but they are in that league. Personally, I prefer the Key ones to those set in South Texas. Here is my attempt to list them chronologically, which is probably the best order to read the Key ones.

Robert Tacoma (various protagonists)
Key Weird. 2005. 4.0
Key Weirder 2005 4.3
Color Me Weird 2007 4.3 no, it really is a coloring book, with a story
Key Witch 2008 4.3
Key Lucky 2008 4.0
Possum Surprise 2009 3.3 S Texas small town, duller. Early MS dusted off?
Key Manatee 2010 4.0
Sheriff Skunk 2010 5.0 S Texas small town
Key Dali 2011 4.0 1st person Dali, Key West street artist, w usual cast

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars fun times, November 17, 2010

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katherine colley - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Color Me Weird (Paperback)

Okay i bought this book really without knowing that it was an actual coloring book. i bought it only becaouse Tacoma is a really fun read. I didn't read the description (my mistake) and even though i didn't color it, it was still a really good time.

5 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars crayons and wine, October 7, 2007

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mark pearson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Color Me Weird (Paperback)

loved loved loved "color me weird"!
2 problems though.
one, it's too short, obviously.
two, now this is alittle embarrassing, i was preparing to color me some weird, got me some alchoholic grape juice, plopped myself in front of the tv with the cartoon network on (gotta have the correct ambience ya know) and whipped out some crayons to go to work! as soon as i touched the red crayon something long dormant in the back of my brain snapped and i completely reverted back to my kindergarten self! i started coloring in everything in the general vicinity EXCEPT the book. when i got bored with that i ate as many crayons as i could before getting a tummy ache. my cat, well, lets just say he's not too happy with me at the moment.... by the end of what we are now calling the "crayon debacle" i had shoved a midnight blue so far up my nose we had to have it surgically removed.

can't wait for the next one!!!!!