I doodled this today on the porch. Don’t ask me what she’s doing. Or why the wind is blowing so hard. Or why she’s barefoot. For some reason in every picture I’ve ever drawn of Leeli she’s barefoot. She’s not in the stories, so don’t read too much into it. I also don’t know why [...]
Well, if you’ll put on your nerd hats, boys and girls, you’ll remember the Entmoot in The Two Towers. “Moot” is an olde English word for “meeting”. And as you probably know, rabbits live in either hutches or warrens. You may have noticed my affection for rabbity things: Watership Down is one of my all-time [...]
Hello, Dear Readers. It’s 1:44 a.m. and I’m here, declaring my unrivaled appreciation for your support by posting the following pictures WAY past my bedtime. The first is from a creative young man named Peter Fitzsimmons. He sent me this horrifying amalgam of Aerwiarian beasts in February, declaring the creature a “Fangnubbon”–a name which made [...]
So today I had two interviews, did quite a bit of writing, answered a handful of important emails, read two chapters of Wangerin’s The Book of the Dun Cow with my family, and harvested the first tomato of the year. That called for some brain-time in Aerwiar with my sketch pad. I started this sketch [...]
So when I have too much to do (which is too much of the time), I’ve lately started hiding in a sketchbook. It’s good for the brain to get away from the busy work and spend thirty minutes or so using a completely different part of the gray matter. This afternoon before company arrived I [...]
Hello, Dear Readers! I’m writing from Sweden with happy news: North! Or Be Eaten won the 2010 Christy Award for Young Adult Fiction. On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness was nominated last year and didn’t win, but North!, in the words of Glimplesby Thwack, “emerged triumphant among worthy and formidable opponents, may [...]
Last week I had a concert with Ben Shive and Randall Goodgame in Eagle Point, Oregon. We drove through the rainy, green mountains without spotting a single monster. Truth be told, it worried me. Were the carnivores more cunning in this part of the country? Had they found a way to disguise themselves? Were they [...]
Someone recently posted this picture on Facebook. Yes, it’s an author’s dream.
The intelligent, well-behaved students of Central Christian School in St. Louis have been told of the dangers lurking in Glipwood Forest. As you can see in this photo, they were grateful. It’s been a long day, so I don’t have it in me to write a full-on post, but I wanted to drop in and [...]
The schoolchildren of Omaha, Nebraska have been warned. I can now sleep well, knowing the many evil plans of the many sinister cows of Nebraska will fail. The children of elementary schools Ackerman, Manchester, and Reagan listened as I described the many dangers of Aerwiar, showed them the maps, read chapters from On the Edge [...]
