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The NORTH! OR BE EATEN Blog Tour

I've come across several encouraging reviews from the Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy bloggers and thought I'd post a few links here. This first is a quick interview with Chawna Schroeder.

Rebecca LuElla Miller, an insightful reader and writer who in her review of On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness helped me grapple with the idea of Theme in my writing, has some interesting things to say about Tink's avoidance of responsibility.

Phyllis Wheeler also gave it a thumbs-up and summarized...

An Album in the Mountains and a Monster in the Hollows

[image error]I'm writing this from a hotel in Seattle. About nine days ago I flew here with my musical compadrés the Captains Courageous (along with Gabe Scott and engineer Todd Robbins), to record The Last Frontier, my newest album.

Our days started at about 10AM and ended at about 1:30AM for eight days straight, and we somehow managed to record fourteen songs. If you're not familiar with the recording process, you may not realize that fourteen songs in eight days is what we like to call break-neck...

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Happy New Year, dear readers.

I'm overdue on a more involved post, not to mention that I haven't uploaded the several excellent drawings you've mailed and emailed. In just under two weeks I'm flying to Washington State to record a new album and I still have a few songs left to write. This, as you might imagine, is occupying most of my brain.

I'm always excited to enter the studio because it's a creative process that involves community. There's just no way to record an album on your own. Well...

Authentic Toothy Cow Teeth for Christmas? Indeed.

Dearest Readers,

My brother has done the impossible. "What?" you ask. "Did he publish his first book?" The answer is yes. It's called The Fiddler's Gun and is available exclusively in the Rabbit Room. It's not a children's book, but is rather for young adults and up, being about an orphan girl who is swept into the Revolutionary War and eventually finds herself on a pirate ship. Here's a review, and here's the cover:

But that's not the impossible thing my brother has done. Difficult, yes...

Events! Avast!

One of my favorite things to do is talk about the Wingfeather Saga with young readers. They ask the best questions. One little boy asked me a few weeks ago if the end of the Wingfeather Saga would include an explosion of some kind. (Answer: No, unless you count me blowing your mind. Ha.)  Another little girl asked me if Janner, Tink, and Leeli represented the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Answer: No. Absolutely no.) The headmaster at a school in St. Louis ran out to the parking lot as I was ...

Encyclopedia Update: G

fossilized glipper

The Encyclopedia of All Things Aerwiar has been updated from  "Gargle and Slurp"  to "Green Hollows".

Next up? You guessed it: H.

Toothy Cow Bones Discovered in Oklahoma, Boy Trembles

Keystone Dam, Oklahoma — Hunter, a boy in Oklahoma on a nature walk with his grandparents, discovered the remains of a toothy cow this week. Long thought to have been extinct (or fictional), the toothicus bovinius primarily inhabited the Skreean forest region once known as Glipwood Forest. The toothy cows terrorized man, woman, child, and pet during the First Epoch, but sometime after the Glozing of Skree in 2/345 the king of Skree sent rangers to tame the terrors of Glipwood Forest. After...

A New Interview About NORTH!

Hello, dearest readers. Here's a link to an interview that just went up on a website called Title Trakk, about North! Or Be Eaten, songwriting, the Rabbit Room, and the KGB.

Also, all three parts of my piece about my visit to Kalmar are up in the Rabbit Room.

Also, I ate six pieces of my Italian buddy's homemade pizza tonight, and I'm about to go into a coma.

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A Visit to Kalmar: Part I

The Castle Kalmar

I just posted part one of a three part blog about my recent visit to Kalmar, Sweden, the town of my great-grandfather's birth. That name seems familiar, somehow. Hmm.

It's up in the Rabbit Room, and you can read it by clicking here.

A Video Book Review by an 11-year-old