It was a true honor to have been tapped to pick a “Great Read” for The National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance. I’d like to tell you a bit about my choice: Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner. I did not have the pleasure of being introduced to Kästner’s 1929 kids’ novel when I […]
My NCBLA “Great Reads” Pick: Emil and the Detectives
If You’ve Got the Time, We’ve Got the Beer (Graphic Novel)
Several years ago I walked into Mayflower Brewing Company in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to visit a dear friend who had gone to work as head brewer there. Mike Smith graciously propelled me into an unforgettable brewery tour. It left me reeling with how ignorant I had been both about the making of beer and, more importantly, […]
Lights, Camera… Epochalypse! [VIDEO]
If you have been reading my dark-twist-on-time-travel series Epochalypse, or perhaps even the trade paperback graphic novel edition collecting Issues 1-6 that’s available now, you may remember a certain sequence from the second chapter. In this world, something has made 600 years of history collapse into a single timeline. And an embattled new leadership has […]