Labor Day.  Tomorrow many of you will be back in school (if you haven’t already started school).   Welcome back! I hope your summer was restful.  I know that mine was.  I’ll be heading back to school (or schools) as well this week. A couple days ago I received this wonderful email from Ruth Sellers from [...]

Marie and I are down here in sultry Arkansas visiting our daughter and her boys for a couple of days.  I’m writing on her new 21.5 inch iMac and I have to say that it an absolute joy to work on.  So much so, that I’m going to get one for the office up at [...]

We’re back up in Seattle for our youngest grandson’s 4th birthday. I love birthdays, especially my grandchildren’s birthdays. It’s a beautiful day for a party. In spite of the festivities I managed to get a little work in this morning on the third Cryptid Hunter (no title yet) installment. I’m still in the research stage, [...]

This post is a little of everything. We’re on our way up to the Seattle area this morning to celebrate Jack’s (grandson #3) birthday. We got him a pair of nice binoculars (all 6 year olds should have good pair of binoculars). Quit trip. We’ll be back tomorrow with Jack and his younger brother, Ethan, [...]

I’ve been asked many times:  “How many books do you work on at one time?” My answer has always been:  “One.” This summer I’m going to change that up.  I have several books under contract, and I’m going to work on four of them simultaneously.  I’ve already started two of the books, and in the [...]

Home sweet home… I’ve spent the last couple days writing and getting organized for the work over the summer. I thought it might be fun to give you a virtual tour of my office. I’m always interested in writer’s and illustrator’s working spaces. You can view the tour on YouTube by clicking the photo.

I’m back with my friends at Clearlake Middle School in Cocoa, Florida for my 4th time in the past ten years. Hitched a ride from Melbourne with principal Mark Mullins. It’s a great school with very cool 7th and 8th graders. I got the chance to speak to all of them today. IQ2 update… I [...]

Up at 3 to catch a flight to Orlando. I had a wonderful 24 hours at the farm with my family. Flight out of PDX is delayed because of a battery problem. What’s interesting to me is that when they make the announcement no one sitting here waiting to board reacts at all. We are [...]

I guess I’m working the graveyard shift now… I was asleep by 6PM last night and up at 3AM this morning working on I,Q2 after a decent amount of sleep. I spoke at Westbrook Intermediate in Friendswood, TX this morning, and Clear Lake Intermediate in Houston, TX this afternoon. Westwood did a “read it forward” [...]

Up at 3 and on my way to Texas for the week after a day at the farm… Yesterday after packing, or I should say re-packing, I spent the rest of the day transcribing what I had scratched into the Moleskine the previous week into my laptop. To my horror I discovered several pages that [...]