(Thanks to Heather Rodrigue for the image. Good advice.) Oy, Dear Readers! I would apologize for the long silence, if that long silence didn’t mean I had been working on the new book. I’ve written up to chapter 23, which is when everybody finds out that Gnag is actually not a bad man, just a [...]
Not only is it after Halloween, but Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s have come and gone–but I’m happy to tell you costume contest winners that at long last the sketches are finished, packaged, and ready for delivery in tomorrow’s mail. My apologies for taking so long to finish up the project. I’ll think twice next [...]
Okay, the last time I put on a contest I regretted it. Why? Because it was so terribly hard to choose a single winner. Below are the submissions, in no particular order, so you can see what a tough decision this was. First we have Matt and Amanda Marlin, with their dog Loki, dressed as [...]
This drawing is from the beginning of book one, submitted by Gabrielle Girard (13). She said, “My picture is of breakfast in the snug Igiby cottage, the sunny morning Podo stomps in with a sack of wriggling thwaps. Leeli is pleading with Podo not to dump them into the dark sea, and two little thwaps [...]
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted here, and my only excuse is a good one: I’ve been working hard on music for most of the year. Music and bees. And pumpkins and butternut squash. You see, I finished up the actual recording of Light for the Lost Boy sometime in the late spring, [...]
Dear Reader, I’m writing from the dregs of summer. The weather at the Warren has been in the mid- to upper-nineties for weeks, and there’s been very little rain. I’ve managed to keep the pumpkin patch watered, but there’s too much corn to spray. I went to check on my poor thirsty stalks this morning [...]
I’m sitting here in amazement that after more than a year of recording, editing, and mastering, the North! Or Be Eaten audiobook is here. I know I told you guys that it would be here a long time ago, back in 2011 when Englishman Peter Sandon was sending us files from his London studio. But [...]
Patient Readers, At long last, I finished the drawing for Will Silander, whose Lego stop-motion film won last year’s review contest for The Monster in the Hollows. (Click here if you want to relive its awesomeness.) Last week I found the time to tackle drawing that intimidating tree and delivered the finished product to Will [...]
I was able to carve out a few hours Monday afternoon to work on the drawing. I had no idea how to convey the stonework of the library’s face, and to be honest, I was dreading having to draw every brick. As I said in the last post, I had too little patience when I [...]
You guys may remember a contest we held last year, in which two reviews of The Monster in the Hollows were chosen (one for blogs, one for Amazon reviews). The two winners were to receive an original Wingfeather Saga drawing, and if I could swing it I’d try to draw whatever they wanted. The two [...]
