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March 6, 2017
**30 DAYS OF TAPPER TWINS!**
It’s just 30 days until the fourth–and ABSOLUTELY BEST (or so I think) Tapper Twins book comes out: THE TAPPER TWINS GO VIRAL!
In honor of the occasion, Claudia Tapper is devoting her Instagram page to 30 days’ worth of new, old, rare, not-so-rare, behind-the-scenes, and in-front-of-the-scenes photos from all four books in the series!
Want a sneak preview? Okay, fine.
Here’s a representative sample of what you can expect over the next month:
The real-life models who inspired Claudia and Reese!
Alternate takes for the mean rich lady and her mean rich dog in THE TAPPER TWINS RUN FOR PRESIDENT!
The real-life art director — the fabulously talented Liz Casal — who created the drawings of Claudia and Reese (and everybody else) for all the books!
Horrifying full-color photos of the cheese fries Xander Billington stuck up his nose!
The totally awesome Chinatown dim sum place that I couldn’t figure out how to fit into THE TAPPER TWINS TEAR UP NEW YORK!
And because no Tapper Twins retrospective would be complete without him, James Mantolini’s dad! 
Want to see more? Head over to Claudia Tapper’s Instagram page for the full 30 days of fun!
And you’ll want to stick around after that…because starting on April 4th, Claudia will be posting all twenty-one parts of James Mantolini’s horror-comedy video masterpiece, THE FURRY MENACE:
(Don’t worry. That’s a rubber knife. I bought it at a Halloween store for three dollars.)
You’re definitely not going to want to miss THE FURRY MENACE videos. They’re a big part of THE TAPPER TWINS GO VIRAL. And due to technological limitations inherent in the “book” medium, they will not be viewable in the book itself. So Claudia’s Instagram page will be pretty much your only source for that.
(Speaking of THE TAPPER TWINS GO VIRAL…if you want to preorder, click here and scroll down to find the big red preorder buttons for Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Indiebound, etc.)
January 8, 2017
Hey, Look! It’s THE TAPPER TWINS GO VIRAL cover!
And what a fine cover it is! In stores April 4th. Feel free to preorder via Indiebound, Barnes&Noble, or Amazon.
November 23, 2016
Tapper Twins Fans: Follow Claudia and Reese on Instagram!
If you’re a fan of the Tapper Twins books, did you know Claudia and Reese both have Instagram accounts? They use them to post pics of various things they get up to in New York City — mostly things that AREN’T in the books, so they’re worth checking out while you bide your time before The Tapper Twins Go Viral comes out.
SPEAKING OF WHICH: there are a ton of references in …Go Viral to videos that Claudia posts on line…and after the book comes out on April 4th, 2017, a bunch of those videos are going to wind up on Claudia’s Instagram page. So you’ll probably want to check those out starting in early April. In the meantime —
Click here for Claudia’s Instagram page!
AND
Click here for Reese’s Instagram page!
When you do, keep an eye out for other Tapper Twins characters in the comment sections. Xander, James Mantolini, Sophie, Carmen, the Fembots, and others all might pop up from time to time.
And if you want to preorder The Tapper Twins Go Viral, you can do that at your local independent bookstore via Indiebound, or at Barnes & Noble, or at Amazon.
September 9, 2016
Come See Me In Person!
THE TAPPER TWINS RUN FOR PRESIDENT is in stores now (yay!), and I’ll be doing a few public appearances in New York City and Orlando over the next few weeks to talk Tapper Twins and whatever else anybody cares to ask about. If you’re into that sort of thing, drop by and say hi! Here are details:
Saturday, September 17th — 1:00pm — Books of Wonder 18 West 18th Street, New York City — I’ll be on a panel with a bunch of other middle grade authors. Fun! Exciting! (Hopefully!)
Saturday, October 1st — 10:00am-4:00pm — Authors in the Park Book Festival, Winter Park/Orlando, FL — I’ll be giving a “keynote speech” (I have no idea what that means) around 10:00, so show up early if you want to see that. But I’ll also be hanging out until late afternoon, or at least until I have to go to the airport. So feel free to come by later, too.
Friday, October 7th — 4:00 pm — Jefferson Market Library, 6th Avenue at 10th Street, NYC — There will be no speech. But there might be pizza! We’ll be discussing THE TAPPER TWINS RUN FOR PRESIDENT and (hopefully! fingers crossed on this part) eating pizza.
August 26, 2016
The Tapper Twins Run for President Trailer!
And now, a 42-second trailer about a presidential election between a thoughtful, policy-minded female and a guy without a shred of experience who’s constantly spouting off the first thing that comes to his mind:
The really great thing? You can laugh at this one without experiencing a gnawing sense of existential dread for the future of American democracy.
To get your copy of The Tapper Twins Run for President (before or after the September 6th release date), click a link below. Thanks!
New Trailer! The Tapper Twins Run for President
And now, a 42-second trailer about a presidential election between a thoughtful, policy-minded female and a guy without a shred of experience who’s constantly spouting off the first thing that comes to his mind:
The really great thing? You can laugh at this one without experiencing a gnawing sense of existential dread for the future of American democracy.
To get your copy of The Tapper Twins Run for President (before or after the September 6th release date), click a link below. Thanks!
April 18, 2016
Thanks, Librarians! (In Florida! And Maine!)
Woke up this morning to the very welcome news that THE TAPPER TWINS GO TO WAR (WITH EACH OTHER) made Florida’s 2016-17 Sunshine State Young Readers Award list!
Then my (much more successful) friend Tommy Greenwald pointed out to me that THE TAPPER TWINS also made the Maine Student Book Award list! Which is equally exciting!
If you’re an eligible schoolkid in Florida or Maine, please vote! For any book on the list! Doesn’t have to be the Tapper Twins. (Although it’d be awesome if it was. Especially because the more votes the Tapper Twins get in this kind of thing, the more likely it is that there will be more Tapper Twins books beyond the first four.)
Below is the original tweet from the Florida Association for Media in Education, along with a link to a Youtube video featuring all the books on the list. And click here for the full Maine list!
Congratulations @GeoffRodkey! Tapper Twins Go to War (With Each Other) is on the 16-17 SSYRA 6-8 list! @lbschool https://t.co/WhhPo40T4x
— Florida SSYRA (@FloridaSSYRA) April 18, 2016
Many, many thanks to all the awesome librarians in Maine and Florida who thought enough of the Tapper Twins to include it in the company of such a great group of books.
January 19, 2016
TAPPER TWINS RUN FOR PRESIDENT!
2016′s an election year…and the Tapper Twins are RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT!
Both of them!
Against each other!
On September 6th, Claudia and Reese face off with the leadership of Culvert Prep’s sixth grade on the line.
And as they tend to do in Tapper Twins books, things get a little crazy.
How crazy?
I don’t want to spoil anything… But here’s a campaign poster from class troublemaker James Mantolini:
Want to learn more? Check out a preview of the opening chapters at the back of any hardcover or ebook copy of THE TAPPER TWINS TEAR UP NEW YORK!
And if you’d like to see more sneak previews of art and photos from the book, post a comment by scrolling down and/or clicking the “LEAVE A COMMENT” button at the end of this post!
Want to make sure you get your copy the day it appears in stores? Reserve a copy at your local bookstore or click over to one of these fine online purveyors of quality children’s literature and preorder: Powell’s! McNally-Jackson! Indiebound! Barnes and Noble! Books-a-Million! Ibooks! Amazon!
And seriously, leave a comment below. If I get enough comments, my publisher might let me post more stuff.
January 3, 2016
Books! And Pizza! In Greenwich Village!
Going to be in New York City on Friday, January 15th at 4:00pm? Come by the Jefferson Market Library at 6th Avenue and 10th Street for Books and Pizza, courtesy of the New York Public Library and the Jeff Market branch’s awesome youth librarian Rebecca Schosha! 
There will be pizza!
There will also be books!
Specifically, The Tapper Twins Go To War (With Each Other), which we’ll be discussing.
I’m not 100% sure, but I think you might have to be willing to discuss the book in order to get the pizza.
Also, I’ll be there! And I will happily answer any of your Tapper Twins-related questions! As long as my mouth isn’t full of pizza. And maybe even if it is.
Hope to see you there!
November 15, 2015
ATTENTION HOLIDAY SHOPPERS: Autographed Book Plates! For Free!
Considering a copy of one of The Tapper Twins or Chronicles of Egg books as a holiday gift?
You should! Seriously. These books are AMAZING, and I’m not just saying that because I get royalties from them.
And if you are…why not make that gift EXTRA-SUPER-SPECIAL by having it signed and personalized to your friend/loved one/person-you-got-stuck-with-in-the-Secret-Santa-drawing?
Because for a limited time only, I will autograph and personalize as many books as you want FOR FREE!
Well, not exactly. It’d be kind of a hassle for me to sign the actual books unless you’re within a five-block radius of my apartment (if you are, email me and maybe we can work something out).
But what I WILL do for free is send you a personalized, autographed Tapper Twins or Chronicles of Egg book plate that you can affix to the inside of your copy!
It’ll be almost exactly like my having signed the book itself, and it’ll look something like one of these:
Nice, right? Do you like the “Get hooked” catch phrase on the Egg plate? And the little drawing of a hook? There’s no extra charge for that kind of thing.
For those of you unclear on the concept of a “book plate,” it’s basically a fancy sticker. You can peel off the back and stick it pretty much anywhere you want. Most people choose the interior title page, but it’ll stick to anything, so if you’d rather put it on a notebook, refrigerator, the back of an unsuspecting victim, etc…have at it. I’m not going to judge you.
And again: THIS IS FREE, and I’ll send as many book plates as you have books to stick them in. Just send a mailing address and the first name of the recipient to geoff(at)geoffrodkey.com (using an @ instead of the (a) – I have to type it this way or Internet-trolling spambots will harvest the address from this post and send me spam email for years) and I’ll hook you up.
Email me by 4pm on December 18th, and I guarantee delivery in time for Christmas!
Any later than that, and I will guarantee delivery by Martin Luther King Day. (For which the Tapper Twins and Chronicles of Egg books would also make fine, if somewhat inexplicable, gifts.)
