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‘The Smashing Machine’ Duo Benny Safdie & Dwayne Johnson To Reteam On Hot Package ‘Lizard Music’ – The Dish 

More at deadline.com. Mr. Johnson is apparently slimming down for the role of the Chicken Man.

Can you picture it?Hope he knows how to play the accordion!

New book!

Coming soon, from Tachyon Publications.

Jill Pinkwater, 1941-2022

Jill Pinkwater
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— Daniel Pinkwater (@DanielPinkwater) October 4, 2022

“I just want to say…not just that I love her, that’s obvious, but that she is the single greatest person I have met, ever. And quite a few things that people tend to like and/or respect about me are actually Jill. I don’t feel grief, I feel gratitude.”

Interview with DP and Aaron Renier

Publishers Weekly has a great new interview with Daniel and illustrator Aaron Renier. The two have collaborated on four books thus far: 2020’s Vampires of Blinsh and Adventures of a Dwergish Girl, and 2022’s Kat Hats and Crazy in Poughkeepsie (both coming soon!).

Happy birthday, Daniel!

Wishing you a fantastic year ahead!

Ready for a new book??

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From the publisher: “Mick is a good kid, but maybe he can use just a little guidance. But it’s unclear who will be guiding whom, because Mick’s brother came home from Tibet with the self-proclaimed Guru Lumpo Smythe-Finkel and his dog Lhasa―and then promptly settled both of them in Mick’s bedroom.

(The thing about this kind of guru is that he doesn’t seem to know exactly what he’s trying to do. He sure does seem to be hungry, though.)

Anyway, Mick agrees to something like a quest, roaming the suburbs with the oddest group of misfits: Lumpo and Lhasa; graffiti-fanatic Verne; and Verne’s unusual friend Molly. Molly is a Dwergish girl―don’t worry if you don’t know what that is yet―and she seems to be going off the rails a bit. But she knows that she is definitely not Verne’s girlfriend.

Along the way, the gang will get invited to a rollicking ghost party, consult a very strange little king, and actually discover the truth about Heaven. Or a version of the truth anyway, because in a Daniel Pinkwater tale, the truth is never the slightest bit like what you’re expecting.”

Forthcoming from Tachyon Books in April 2022!

Technical difficulties

We are having some site trouble but should be back online soon! Thanks for your patience.

New audio!

Enjoy a new sample chapter from a forthcoming book.

Happy birthday, Daniel!

Vampires of Blinsh

Don’t forget to check out this new picture book, now available at fine book retailers!