Frank Beddor's Blog, page 10

Modernizing Madness

With every passing year more and more of our cultural touchstones tumble into the public domain, becoming available to the evolutionary process of “re-telling”. Spin-offs and re-imaginings can illicit delight or despair. They might give us more of what we crave from our favorite characters —or they might dash our previous conceptions of something we thought familiar.

Deeply embedded stories and fantasies are precious to us. They can invoke righteous passions if someone dare alter that which w...

Dear Inquiring Minds...

What if I told you that a titan of IP slumbers largely untapped? That while only a fraction of its potential has been realized, it’s already a worldwide cultural phenomenon? What if I told you that I was talking about Lewis Carroll’s ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND?

Immediately, from the title alone, you probably envision the blonde little girl in her powder blue dress (major props to Disney!). She’s etched into our collective brain. The story of her adventures has sold more than 150 million...

Dear Inquiring Minds...

What if I told you that a titan of IP slumbers largely untapped? That while only a fraction of its potential has been realized, it’s already a worldwide cultural phenomenon? What if I told you that I was talking about Lewis Carroll’s ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND?

Immediately, from the title alone, you probably envision the blonde little girl in her powder blue dress (major props to Disney!). She’s etched into our collective brain. The story of her adventures has sold more than 150 million...

Rabbit hole revisited: Beddor finishes Wonderland trilogy

The first step may have been the hardest—but “finishing” was a tight contender as Frank Beddor found out while battling to satisfy his fans in ArchEnemy the conclusion to his main Looking Glass Wars trilogy. The series has garnered attention from fans of all demographics, just as its inspiration Alice in Wonderland has done for over a century.

Beddor shared the inception of his works, the unexpected demands for more Alyss, and his future plans with Louis B. Parks of the Houston Chronicle. Det...

Beddor is his own wonderland

The Minnesotan responsible for "There's Something About Mary" is now a fantasy-book mogul with dreams of being the next J.K. Rowling.

By TOM HORGEN, Star Tribune

Frank Beddor has known many heights in his career: world-champion skier, stuntman, actor, Hollywood producer and, most recently, New York Times best-selling fantasy author. (In that order, too.) Beddor couldn't have imagined a better story line had he written it himself.

"All I've been doing my whole life is rolling the dice," ...

A Curiouser 'Alice'

Alice In Wonderland looms as a story known the world over. Creative greats and producing titans have long taken Lewis Carroll’s work as the clay from which to mold their own retellings. However, in the sea of diverse renditions—few have taken Alice far from her roots… that is, until Frank Beddor wrote The Looking Glass Wars.

Transmuting a lost and mild little girl into a modern heroine drove Beddor’s quest to create his Looking Glass Wars novel trilogy and spin-off series of Hatter M. graphic...

'Looking Glass Wars' takes Alice to a very different Wonderland

The rabbit hole is getting crowded again.

It’s been 144 years since Lewis Carroll introduced the world to an inquisitive girl named Alice, but her surreal adventures still resonate – Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” arrives in theaters in March and next month on SyFy it's “Alice,” a modern-day reworking of the familiar mythology with a cast led by Kathy Bates and Tim Curry.

And then there’s “The Looking Glass Wars,” the series of bestselling novels by Frank Beddor that takes the classic ...

Looking Glass Wars fantasy author comes to O.C.

Writer Frank Beddor will be at the O.C. Children's Book Festival on Sunday.

By PETER LARSEN

THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

In Frank Beddor's reimagining of "Alice in Wonderland," the Cat is loosely based on the original Chesire Cat, but here is more or less a hitman -- hit-cat? -- who hunts down the heroine of the tale.

The story of how Frank Beddor came to write the Looking Glass Wars trilogy begins like a movie – only appropriate, given that before the books Beddor had mostly worke...

The Mad Hatter prevails! Author Frank Beddor sizes up an icon

Bestselling author Frank Beddor knows the landscape of Wonderland as the creator of the "Looking Glass Wars" series of novels and the "Hatter M" graphic novels. Today, as Disney basks in the glow of a $210-million opening weekend of Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," Beddor considers the pop-culture persistence of the Mad Hatter.

Riddle: When is a Hatter NOT Mad?

Shatterpated! Barmy! Raving! Amok! Berserk!

I love the smell of madness in the morning. The popularity of "Alice in Wonderla...

Q&A with Frank Beddor and Gregory Maguire

Welcome to Ask 5 Answer 5, where I ask 5 questions of a writer I would love to have a conversation with.  In return, they ask me 5 questions and we mash it all up here for your reading pleasure.

My inaugural guest is author Gregory Maguire, perhaps best known for Wicked.

Q: FB

First off. I am always curious as to how writers prepare themselves to write. What do you do to help settle yourself down to writing? For instance, I like to dust with a feather duster.

A: GM

Well I do three...