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The upcoming Wingfeather Saga pilot premiere was highlighted in a news article today!

Nine years ago, Nashville musician and author Andrew Peterson published the first fiction novel of his acclaimed series The Wingfeather Saga. Now, the series is making its way to the silver screen, with an animated short premiering at Nashville's Belcourt Theatre November 2."Of course, like any sensible author, I daydreamed about how cool it would be to see these characters and settings with my own eyes," Peterson said. "But, more than ten years later, to be a part of something like this--well, I guess you could say it's a daydream come true. The ten-year-old boy in me is flipping out."

Congratulations to Andrew, Chris, and the animation team! Read the whole article here. :-)

Animated series premiere dates!

Last week at Hutchmoot Chris and Andrew played a little sneak peek of the upcoming Wingfeather animated short. IT IS COMING! This week they are back in the studio again, working hard to complete animation before we unveil it to backers and to all you wonderful Featherheads. :-)https://www.instagram.com/p/BaIGVOLHo3R/[embed]https://www.instagram.com/p/BaIHov-nqYf/[/embed]So are you guys ready for this?The world premiere of the Wingfeather Saga animated series is happening the weekend of November 3. That Friday, the pilot short will be available for Kickstarter backers to access.

And on December 26, 2017, the Wingfeather Saga animated short will be available to the world.

In the words of the great Thumb of the Honkmeadow, "The games are starting soon enough." :-)

The Andrew news

Things Andrew has been up to lately:

(That last one is a lie. It has been a CRAZY summer. I am exhausted just posting all those links. Also, I am forgetting half of it and Andrew probably has also.)Speaking of those Rabbit Room Live festivities—you are invited! It's happening in Franklin, TN on October 5, and you can get tickets here or you can attend via live stream. Just follow the Rabbit Room Facebook page for details and notifications. :-)

A war story

Here is a review I read months ago, but with one thing and another am only now getting around to sharing with you. It's by Sara Masarik at Plumfield and Paideia. I discovered Sara through her enthusiastic support of last year's Kickstarter, and since then she and her book community have been great allies for Andrew and the other Rabbit Room authors. Here is a little snippet of her review. She says,

This is a war story. A compelling, intriguing, sometimes quirky but deeply moral war story. ... What I found particularly rewarding about this text is that is does not hold back on the need for people to behave in heroic ways even when it may cost them everything. There aren’t many cheap saves or easy outs. This is a dark and dangerous culture war and it requires character, love, faith and hope if one is to survive.

Thank you, Sara. Readers, you can find the rest of her review (and her very pretty book-quote-memes) here.

The Crossing of the Mighty Blapp

Here is a colorful and heartfelt depiction of a certain scene from North! Or Be Eaten. A young reader named Kaleb drew this a few years back when he was six (he's nearly twice that now). This was one of his favorite scenes from their family's Wingfeather readalouds.The wicked grin on the Fang in contrast to the others' sorrow is well-executed, and I appreciate Leeli's tears adding to the salt of the sea.Thank you, Kaleb.

A Colorado Bomnubble by Mr. Jay Myers

Dear Featherheads, today's post is a little bit late, but I have a good excuse and two interesting things to show you.Do you remember Mr. Jay Myers, the artist drawing our Florid Sword comic book? He and his family are moving cross-country this week, and they just happened to be driving right past the town where Professor Sidler and I live—so we got to have a playdate, and he drew me a picture. :-) We really enjoyed hanging out with the Myers family. Jay and Raynna and their six kids are super cool. We all had a lot to talk about, and we got to spend a couple of hours with them and look at mountains and find pine cones and see some wildlife (including a tiny but alarming spider that their youngest dispatched to save me from it. Brave and clever!).So I promised you two interesting things, and here is the first one. Jay and Andrew know each other through their art. The Myers family appreciated Andrew's music, so once when Raynna and the kids went to a concert Jay sent along a drawing to thank him. Andrew then tracked Jay down to thank him, and now he is going to be drawing The Florid Sword and Shadowblade. You want to see that picture, the one that started it all?https://instagram.com/p/BYWCxUJAwqL/The Klausen story is interesting and I for one am eager to read it. Check out Jay's website or Instagram and you might catch a few glimpses.And speaking of catching glimpses, here is the other interesting thing: the picture Jay drew for me today while we were hanging out looking at mountains. Jay knows everything there is to know about Bigfoot,¹ and he says that every state has their own name for this mysterious creature. In Colorado, he says, Bigfoot is called a Rock Ape. So that's what he drew me.  At least, that's what he says he drew me. But it looks an awful lot like the pictures in a certain  scarytale I used to read as a little girl in Ban Rona!

1. Bigfoot! Woe!

The stories are true.