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Children's
Literature
Outdoor Media
— In Print

PEN
& INKWritten & Worth Carrying

"The best books don't explain the outdoor life. They make you go outside to find out for yourself."

2Publications
30+Years · FTC
10Chapters · TPC
2Advisors
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What Pen & Ink Is Authors in the Tymmber orbit who made something worth carrying
Pen & Ink · Why This Section Exists

The Library Didn't
Build These Books.
But They Belong Here.

The Franklin Library is built around a simple idea: good writing opens doors that lectures close. But not all of it comes from inside the series. Some of it comes from the people in the Tymmber orbit — advisors, partners, and collaborators who have also put pen to paper and produced something worth reading.

Pen & Ink is the section of the Library that houses their work. A children's book that embodies everything Tymmber believes about formation and the outdoors. A fishing magazine that's been building credibility on the West Coast since 1995. These aren't endorsements. They're recognitions — of work that belongs alongside the series because it comes from the same conviction: the outdoors changes you, and that change is worth writing about.

The shelf will grow. If you're an author in the Tymmber orbit whose work fits here, the door is open.

01
Children's Literature · Outdoor Formation
Greg Gudorf · Advisory Seat Two
The Poway Creek Summer Buy on Amazon Full Author Page →
Children's Literature · Outdoor Formation · 2026

The Poway
Creek Summer

A Story of Two Brothers, One Dog, and the Best Summer Ever

Written by Greg Gudorf  ·  Art by FLOW  ·  Tymmber Advisory Seat Two

Set in the creekside hills above Lake Poway, this is a ten-chapter children's book built around a simple premise: going outside changes you. Two brothers. One summer. Ten moments that require a choice. The lessons don't come from a classroom — they come from a wasp nest, a broken fence, a red marble, and the honest reckoning that only the outdoors can produce. This is the book Tymmber would write for the next generation if it wrote children's books. Greg Gudorf went ahead and wrote it.

Ch. 1The Biggest Thing
Ch. 2Words That Stick
Ch. 3The Longest Day
Ch. 4The Broken Fence
Ch. 5The Wasp Nest
Ch. 6The Promise
Ch. 7The Red Marble
Ch. 8The Shortcut
Ch. 9The Other Family
Ch. 10Enough
Buy on Amazon → Full Author Page & Living Book Universe →
Living Book Universe · All Formats
Print & KindleAvailable now on Amazon
● Live
AudiobookNarrated edition
In Dev
5-Min Bedtime EditionFor parents & kids
In Dev
Workbook & Study GuideFamily & classroom use
Coming
Library Summer Reading SeriesPublic library edition
Coming
Original AlbumMusic companion
Coming
Children's Animation SeriesThe creek, animated
Coming
Greg Gudorf

Entrepreneur · Grandfather · Man of Faith · 40 years in consumer technology · Tymmber Advisory Seat Two · San Diego, CA

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The Standard · What Gets a Shelf Here

The Shelf Has
One Criterion.Does it send you outside?

The Franklin Library applies the Nullius in Verba standard to everything it houses. In Pen & Ink, that standard has one practical expression: does the work make the reader more sovereign, more curious, or more likely to leave the building and go test something in the real world?

That's not a low bar. Most published work is written to be received, not to provoke. The books and publications in this section were written to do something harder — to send the reader somewhere. The creek. The river. The field. The honest reckoning that only direct experience can produce.

If you're an author in the Tymmber orbit whose work meets that standard, reach out. The shelf has room.

Criterion I
Direct Experience Over Received Opinion

The work must be grounded in firsthand observation — not research about the outdoors, but experience of it. Written from the field, not about it.

Criterion II
Formation, Not Information

The goal of the work is to change the reader — their habits, their judgments, their willingness to go test something — not just to inform them.

Criterion III
Author in the Orbit

The author is known to Tymmber — advisor, partner, collaborator, or aligned independent. The shelf is curated, not crowdsourced.

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Outdoor Media · Fishing · Est. 1995
Shawn Arnold · Arnold Publications
Fish Taco Chronicles · RAAK at Elephant Butte FTC Home → About FTC →
Fishing · Outdoor Media · Catch · Clean · Cook · Est. 1995

Fish Taco
Chronicles

America's Fishing Newspaper — Thirty Years in Print

Founded by Shawn Arnold & Leonard Davenport  ·  Huntington Beach, CA  ·  A Tymmber Outdoor Publication

What started in 1995 as a way to go fishing and tell their wives they were working became one of the most recognized fishing publications on the West Coast. Sport fishing in Sitka. Fly fishing the Green River. The best fish taco in California. When Del Taco launched its fish taco promotion, they came to Fish Taco Chronicles first. That kind of cultural credibility is built one issue at a time — and it belongs in the Tymmber ecosystem, paired with the hardware that was made for exactly this world.

↗Shore Fishing
↗Sport Fishing
↗Fly Fishing
↗Surf Fishing
↗Kayak Fishing
↗Deep Sea
↗Fish Tacos
↗Travel & Stays
↗Catch · Cook
FTC Home · All Issues → About FTC → Shawn Arnold →
Publication Verticals · All Formats
Quarterly PrintThe original format · Est. 1995
● Live
Digital EditionFull archive · online
In Dev
Shore Cooking SeriesRAAK field kitchen integration
In Dev
Best Fish Taco in the WestSignature annual franchise
Coming
Fish Report NewsletterWeekly · subscriber list
Coming
The Keeper IssueAnnual premium print edition
Coming
Kitchen Table IntegrationRecipes · field reports
Coming
Shawn Arnold

Publisher · Arnold Publications · Founder, Fish Taco Chronicles · 30 years in outdoor media · Huntington Beach, CA

FTC Home · All Issues →

Words that send
you outside.

Two publications. Two advisors. Two decades of earned credibility between them. The shelf is small and intentional. Every title here was chosen because it does what the best outdoor writing has always done — it makes staying inside feel like the wrong choice.

Start Here The Poway
Creek Summer →