The Misadventures of Hobart Hucklebuck: Magic and Mayhem Blog Tour: Characters Guest Postby Stan Swanson

The Misadventures of Hobart Hucklebuck has to be one of the most enjoyable books I have ever written. It has great characters, a solid story line and was a joy to work on. (Writing is the fun part. Editing is where the real work comes in.) Not only is it a fantasy (one of my favorite genres), but it is also a fast-paced adventure and even has a mystery to solve. But I think that it’s the humor that is involved in the story that I love more than anything. And adults seem to love it as much as kids. My wife thinks maybe I can write good middle grade humor as that is sort of the way my mind works anyway. (And just for that I’m not going to empty the trash this week. So there!)
The characters really came to life for me in this book. Hobart Hucklebuck feels like part me and parts of a hundred kids I knew when growing up. He’s an “everyday” kid with “everyday” problems that anyone can associate with. Of course, at some point he has to deal with “grown-up” problems and that’s when he shines.
The first book in the series, The Misadventures of Hobart Hucklebuck: Magic & Mayhem is available now. The second book (which is currently with the publisher) is called The Misadventures of Hobart Hucklebuck: Pandemonium in Pennywhistle and will hopefully be released in just a few months. I’m already working on the third book in the series which is tentatively title The Misadventures of Hobart Hucklebuck: Wicked Weather.
I hope you enjoy reading about the “misadventures” of Hobart as much as I did creating them.
Date of Publication:August 7th, 2014.Cover Artist: Ricky Gunawan
Description: Things are not as they should be in Pennywhistle. Enchanted toasters are not toasting, enchanted sprinklers are not sprinkling and Hobart Hucklebuck’s origami messenger birds are suddenly attacking him.
Someone seems to be draining the power from all of the enchanted items in the village. But who could it be and why have they implicated Hobart’s grandfather?
“The Misadventures of Hobart Hucklebuck” follows Hobart and his friends, Specks Spacklethack and Rosie Rumpleskirt, as they try to solve this mystery and free Hobart’s grandfather from the Tower of Tribulation on Mumblemonk Mountain.
The trio’s investigation into the mysterious happenings on Druid Lane gets them into hot water more than once and ultimately brings them dangerously close to disaster not only for themselves, but the entire village of Pennywhistle.
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About Stan Swanson:
Stan Swanson is a Bram Stoker award finalist and author of eight books including Forever Zombie (a collection of short stories), Write of the Living Dead (a highly-praised writing guide written with Araminta Star Matthews and Rachel Lee) and Return of the Scream Queen (co-authored with Michael McCarty and Linnea Quigley). He is also editor/publisher for Dark Moon Books and Dark Moon Digest. Upcoming titles include Horror High School: Return of the Loving Dead (the first book in a young adult horror series co-written with Araminta Star Matthews), Dead Sparrows (a collection of apocalyptic poetry) and The Methlands (a horror novel co-written with award-winning author Joe McKinney).
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