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Illustrations of Doom, Part Trois

Natalie Zina Walschots’s killer sophomore poetry collection, DOOM: Love Poems for Supervillains, is apparently off to press. So in just a few short months, finished copies can be purchased in bookstores across North America (and online, too). In the meantime, you can look at a couple of the final versions of the section headings. First [...]

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Talking ’bout John Bellairs in The Post

The National Post runs a semi-regular column called ‘Old Book, New Author,’ in which a new author (in this case, I) talk about an older book that has influenced his or her work. On January 19, 2012, I wrote an installment about one of the greats of kids’ mystery novels (and frequent Edward Gorey collaborator) [...]

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Illustrations of DOOM, Part Deux

Illustration work continues on Natalie Zina Walschots’s excellent and hotly anticipated poetry collection, DOOM: Love Poems for Supervillains. (It can’t ALL be Playboy interviews.) Here are some sketches of section pages, followed by more polished illustrations along the same lines. As you can see, I bumped up the kink a bit. First are the sketches [...]

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Two new dead kid reviews!

On her book blog, Words That Fly, K. Quinlan very kindly reviewed The Dead Kid Detective Agency, alongside Marissa Meyer’s certified mega-hit Cinder, in one of her ‘Double Whammy’ reviews (and I’m very proud to say my book received the same star rating): ‘Sounds interesting right? I thought so too. October’s a really interesting character, [...]

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