Kevin Sylvester's Blog, page 10
July 31, 2014
Cat Museums
A day trip and a pawnorama.
July 10, 2014
Getting started
I love getting fan mail (who doesn't) and I'm always amazed by the great questions kids ask.'
I got one today asking how I start a story. Here's what I wrote.....
"The only advice I can give on starting is... don't worry about it. Start the story where you feel you know the story, then go from there. You might find out that's the perfect beginning anyway.
Or, the other advice I sometimes give, is start every story with the same line. Mine is "the gunshot ricocheted off the ceiling and shattered the window".
It's never actually been there when the story get's finished, but it always starts me off with action. Then, once I start writing the story behind the action the story starts to unfold."
And, for the heck of it, since the 5th Neil Flambé is out soon, here's a preview of one of the pics from the book.
July 8, 2014
June 26, 2014
Corporate Cattitude
"You're supposed to kiss it, Johnson."
June 24, 2014
School Visits and great student art!
Another year of school visits in OVER!
(My last was friday as part of the Latitudes Storytelling Festival in Kitchener. Highly recommend going next year if you can.)
One of my fave parts of visiting schools is getting amazing student artwork. Check this out from Caradoc North! They like that Neil Flambé!
I do a cartooning class as part of my presentation that talks about how to use simple shapes to make complex drawings. I like this one from Stephanie, and her demands that I include it in my next book... and send her a free copy.
And this one from Kylee is pretty cool too. (Nice to see she liked my ice-cream-cone dragon tutorial)
Looking forward to more visits in 2014-15!
(My last was friday as part of the Latitudes Storytelling Festival in Kitchener. Highly recommend going next year if you can.)
One of my fave parts of visiting schools is getting amazing student artwork. Check this out from Caradoc North! They like that Neil Flambé!
I do a cartooning class as part of my presentation that talks about how to use simple shapes to make complex drawings. I like this one from Stephanie, and her demands that I include it in my next book... and send her a free copy.
And this one from Kylee is pretty cool too. (Nice to see she liked my ice-cream-cone dragon tutorial)
Looking forward to more visits in 2014-15!
June 17, 2014
It's a cat eat dog world
"So I'm afraid one of you will have to be let go."
June 5, 2014
May 27, 2014
Cat shopping
Haven't put up one of my cat cartoons in a while, so here's one.
May 18, 2014
Wow!
I was at the Durham Silver Birch celebration this week. One of the amazing readers came up and showed me his Neil Flambé and the Tokyo Treasure book report, which was A LUNCH BAG!
So perfect.
Seeing someone do something so clever with my books is very moving and something to be celebrated.
So perfect.
Seeing someone do something so clever with my books is very moving and something to be celebrated.
May 6, 2014
Neil Flambé covers!
Simon and Schuster is releasing the first four books in the Neil Flambé series as paperbacks.
The amazing Laurent Linn worked on them like crazy and got me to redesign the pics of Neil to match the more adventurous, Julia Child meets James Bond feel of the new book covers.
I love them and my inner 12-year-old boy loves them too.
If you click on the SandS link above you'll also notice that it's possible to pre-order the fifth Neil Flambé book as well! Hint... Shakespeare.
And there will be more exciting news to come... stay tuned and (hint, hint) look to the stars for inspiration.
