Meet Robin Jarvis

[close] Robin Jarvis spent most of his school years in art rooms. While doodling one evening, he began inventing names and stories to go along with his drawings—and thus began his writing career.

“For the Hagwood books, I made a conscious decision to completely invent the whole place. You can get away with a lot more,” says Jarvis, who wanted to “put the reader in that . . . no-idea-what’s-going-to-happen-next sort of place.”

In this video, Jarvis talks about his drawing; creating worlds within his writing; and experiencing what he’s writing.