Why should you care?
My
new book is out! and available here!
Why should you care?
Might
be dangerous to get me started - you'd run the same risk
asking a new grandmother if she has any pictures of the baby.
You might be there for a while. I'm tempted to go on and on
about this book, my new baby.
I wrote Feathergill's Fabulous Emporium to flesh out what happens when people talk. At Feathergill's, people's words are spun and woven into their clothes, and those clothes reflect their character. The town meanie, the romance writer, the gossip, the soft-hearted storekeeper, the long-winded professor - I had fun exploring how their personalities might show up in their outfits.
What happens when two orphans escape to Feathergill's? Of course I'd recommend you read the book to find out.
I've
had the idea for about a decade, and I've been writing it for
about half that time. One thing I've learned in my adjunct
career as an author: it is a great deal easier to write a bad
book than a good one. The first drafts of all my books are
fairly terrible, with the germ of a good idea encased in a
bunch of claptrap, extra verbiage and plot misdirections. Then
I rewrite, and rewrite again, and again. For me, it's a
process. And, being that my real job is artwork (I illustrated
Feathergill's, too), I have the luxury of doing my
writing in spare time, without a deadline.
The
publisher insists that I choose an age range for my
readership, and I chose 4th through 6th graders, but I think
the book speaks to anyone who cares about spoken words. It's
the kind of book I read myself, and I'm well past 6th grade.
You
might also enjoy my other fantasy, The
Piglys and the Hundred-Year Mystery, for a
philosophical adventure in which talking pigs discover their
enemies have used rewritten history to steal the Pigly fortune
and besmirch their family honor!
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