About the Book

Book: The Dada Base

Author: Allen Brokken

Genre: Comedy

This book is a compliation of the most popular one-liners, head scratchers and total groaners shared on social media by Author Allen Brokken.

Awarded the prestigious Cool Dad Everyone Talks About by his own kids these wholesome jokes are sure to be a hit with your family.

Plus this book contains his complete Telling Jokes and Puns for kids class with free digital access to course videos.

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About the Author

Allen Brokken is a teacher at heart, a husband, and a father most of all. He’s a joyful writer by the abundant grace of God. He began writing the Towers of Light series for his own children to help him illustrate the deep truths of the Bible in an engaging and age-appropriate way. He’s dedicated 15 years of his life to volunteer roles in children’s ministry and youth development. Now that his own children are off to college, he’s sharing his life experiences at home school conferences and through his blog and newsletter at his website. You can get sneak peeks of the ongoing adventures of Lauren, Aiden, and Ethan (plus their pets!) and the #dadjokeoftheday on all the major social media platforms.

More from Allen

When you are an author the industry encourages you to “have a social media presence”.  As a new author that’s pretty intimidating because the focus is generally on long form writing which is very different than a 140 character tweet.  For the first couple of years I tried different things in the hopes of engaging an audience and nothing seemed to gel.

Then my son introduced me to TikTok.  He said, Dad sometimes your jokes are actually funny so why don’t you do them on Tik Tok?  I was skeptical at first, but I have been known to be pretty PUN-ny at dinner parties so I tried it.

Given that my office has a lot of Star Wars memorabilia from when I was a kid I landed on telling Star Wars jokes at first.  I had very little success only getting between 200 and 1000 view.  Then one day I told this joke and my Tik Tok took off.

“So my son was on his way to take his drivers test and I handed him my collectable life size Storm Trooper helmet.”

He looked at me and said, “What’s this for?”

I replied,”So you don’t hit anything.”

If you’re not familiar with Star Wars that joke is funny because Storm Troopers notoriously don’t hit their target.  Now I’ve broken the cardinal rule of joke telling, jokes that require the audience to do homework are not good jokes.  Which is just one of the many rules of joking around that I learned over the past couple of years.

As my joke list increased I found a group of them that did particularly well online and realized the might make a good joke book.  However, I also realized there are a lot of joke books for kids and I wanted to do something different with mine.  So I decided I should include my class on telling jokes for kids as a part of the book.  So in addition to a collection of funny jokes the book provides a workbook for learning how to tell your own jokes and access to my virtual class for kids on telling jokes and puns.

Interview with Allen

What is your real-life work schedule like when writing?

I have a day job in technology that’s like 9-6, and then I run the Towers of Light company that have my books and audiobible devices.  So when I’m writing it’s a very intentional time.  Like I’ll take either a couple hours in the morning for a few weeks straight or whole days, like a full saturday and monday from a long weekend to get somethign done.

What are your favorite books to read?

I like science fiction quite a bit.  As a kid I read L.Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth like 6 times in 6th grade, and classics like Starship Troopers are really enjoyable.  More recently I appreciated the new Grand Admiral Thrawn books.

When did you write your first book and how old were you?

I was 12 when I wrote what I guess you could call a novella, The Shock Troops year of conquest.  My Mom told me that if I were to write a 100 page story by hand she would type it up.  I wrote it and illustrated it and she typed it up and sent it into a competition.  I didn’t win anything but it is a fond memory of my mom.

What does your family think of your writing?

This book in particular makes my family groan.  My youngest son set me up with a TikTok account and I ran with it telling a Dad Joke of the day.  Over two years I collected the best ones to make this joke.  But the best Dad Jokes are still not very good.  So my family just rolls their eyes at this book.

How many books have you written? Which is your favorite?

The Dada Base+ is my 8th book.  My first 6 books are a middle grade fantasy series, and my 7th is a read aloud picture book that’s actually a scene cut from my first book.  As far as my favorite that’s tough.  For now I’ll say the picture book because my son and his fiancé helped me make that one.

Blog Stops

Book Reviews From an Avid Reader, May 16

Vicky Sluiter, May 17 (Author Interview)

Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, May 18

Tell Tale Book Reviews, May 19 (Author Interview)

For Him and My Family, May 19

Locks, Hooks and Books, May 20

Blossoms and Blessings, May 21 (Author Interview)

Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, May 22

Stories By Gina, May 23 (Author Interview)

Texas Book-aholic, May 24

Jodie Wolfe – Stories Where Hope and Quirky Meet, May 25 (Author Interview)

Guild Master, May 26

A Reader’s Brain, May 27 (Author Interview)

Simple Harvest Reads, May 27

Artistic Nobody, May 28

A Modern Day Fairy Tale, May 29 (Author Interview)

Giveaway

To celebrate his tour, Allen is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon Gift Card!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

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