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.

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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Interview

Do you use humor at all in your writing?

This was a fun question to get because this is a joke book. So yes I do use humor in my writing, but not just in my joke book. One of my favorite pieces of feedback from an editor was, “Did you mean to put this pun here?” My answer, “Why yes, yes I did.”

What do you wish you knew before you started writing?

I wish I had known the value of a writing community before I started writing. I didn’t find out about the Realm Makers consortium until a couple of years into writing and the community did a ton to help me. I wish I’d found them sooner.

Tell us about your daily life.

I have primary employment in sale in Big Tech. So I start my days between 5 and 6 am to get exercise and devotions in before I do anything else. Then if it’s a writing day I’ll write but otherwise I work on the overall Towers of Light business until 9am when I start my day job. Then usually on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday night I’ll work again on Towers of Light stuff after 6pm. Saturdays are usually 10-4 on writing/towers of Light stuff with Sunday off.

What are you currently working on?

I’m working on three books. Thalia in Exile is a book of Daniel retelling that I’m writing with a 12 year old girl from Canada. Daddy Duck saves Cluck is a picture book based on the parable of the lost sheep, and Logan vs. the Pouty Paw Paws is the next adventure in that series.

Tell us something unique about yourself.

My first nationally recognized published work was a letter to the editor of Star Wars comics published in issue #84. In 4th grade, my teacher encouraged us to write a strongly worded letter to the editor and I had a lot to say about a particular issue of Star Wars comics. After getting my letter published, I was asked to join the International Orderr of the Jedi Knights!

When you aren’t writing, what do you enjoy doing?

My current main past time is a mobile game called Star Realms. I’ve won a number of tournaments, but my big claim to fame there was I was the 2024 Arena leaderboard champion.