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Chris Barton's Blog: Bartography, page 33
July 11, 2017
The long and Nerdy road
Jennifer and I have a guest post up today at Nerdy Book Club, Two (or More) of Us: How Writing Communities Shaped the Authors We’ve Become. It begins with Jennifer saying: Long before Chris and I got married, I used to double-date the Beatles. As a bonus to those readers who are nerdy about one […]
July 6, 2017
How to begin a new year with a good night’s sleep
It’s my birthday today, and my most recent journey around the sun ended with a piece of welcome news: That I have missed out on a good-paying speaking gig at a children’s literature event. Wait, why is that welcome news? It’s definitely not because I am burdened with a surfeit of money, or because I […]
June 21, 2017
Bartography Express: “I hope I wasn’t the mean cousin Eddie!”
The Q&A this month in my Bartography Express newsletter (which you can sign up for here) is with my friend Debbi Michiko Florence, whose Jasmine Toguchi chapter book series debuts next month. This month, I’m giving away to one subscriber a set of the first two books in the series, Jasmine Toguchi: Mochi Queen and […]
June 16, 2017
Good news from Kirkus — and from Kirkus!
Yesterday I went looking for the just-published Kirkus review of my next book, Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion, and to my surprise I also found a review of Book or Bell?, my other upcoming 2017 title. To my delight, too, as both reviews have favorable things to say. Whew! From […]
May 17, 2017
I’m visiting schools in the Mid-Atlantic states in 2018!
Details are still coming together, but I’m going to be making my first-ever author visits to schools in the Mid-Atlantic states in spring 2018. If you’re in Delaware, Maryland, eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, northeastern Virginia, and thereabouts and would be interested in booking me, I’d love to hear from you. My Author Visits page […]
April 30, 2017
Proud-husband alert: Revenge of the Happy Campers is out now!
Revenge of the Happy Campers, the third book in Jennifer’s Brewster Triplets series, was published this past Tuesday. In this follow-up to Revenge of the Flower Girls and Revenge of the Angels, her 11-year-old protagonists venture away from their home in Johnson City, Texas. The sisters go on a camping trip with their beloved Aunt […]
April 19, 2017
Bibliography for Dazzle Ships
The back matter for Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion includes a two-page timeline with archival photographs, my author’s note, Victo Ngai’s illustrator’s note, and suggestions for further reading. With all this material that Millbrook Press did include in those final pages, there wasn’t room for a bibliography of the sources […]
April 13, 2017
Revealing the dazzling cover of my next book!
This tiny little image of Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion is all I’ll show you here today, but if you’ll hop on over to A Fuse #8 Production, you’ll see librarian Betsy Bird’s post providing a first, up-close look at debut illustrator Victo Ngai’s stunning artwork for our book due […]
March 28, 2017
“What happened to John Roy’s brother?”
I get that question a lot after talking with students about — and reading to them — The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch. And I guess I should have anticipated that question, considering that William figures prominently in the book’s first few pages, not only in my text but also in Don Tate’s art: […]
March 22, 2017
In which I am interviewed by students from Bradfield Elementary
Following my most recent batch of school visits, I received a bundle of cards from Bradfield Elementary in Dallas. Including these: In addition to a lot of nifty artwork, they had a few questions that I hadn’t addressed in previous installments of In which I am interviewed…, so I thought I’d answer those. Thank you, […]
