Category Archives: Hereville

I attended the Oregon Book Awards tonight with my friend Becky Hawkins; Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite was nominated for the “Graphic Literature” category, but had no chance of winning, since the competition included Joe Sacco and Craig Thompson, … Continue reading →

I’m thrilled to announce that Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite has won the 2013 Cybil Award for best middle-grade graphic novel! You can see the full list of winners here. Congratulations to all my fellow winners. Congrats as well … Continue reading →

After having let it lie a long time while I worked on other aspects, I’m back to working on the character design for Layele, Mirka’s little sister, for Hereville book 3.

Layele is one of Mirka’s sisters, and is about 6 years old. She really didn’t appear much in books 1 or 2, but is a major character in book 3. One thing I’m trying to do is make a different … Continue reading →

Here’s a scene that I ended up 90% rewriting, between a very small Mirka, years ago, and her Mom. I like this scene, but what I replaced it with fits better into the larger story. These are what I call … Continue reading →

Hey, folks. What with Chanukah and that other holiday coming up soon, I wanted to let you know that I’m selling copies of Hereville. Go here for all the details, or if you’d rather not see the details, you can … Continue reading →

I’ve been asked by poet and my “Alas” co-blogger Richard Jeffrey Newman to partic­i­pate in a Blog Hop in order to intro­duce new authors to new read­ers. If you’ve come here from the link posted on Richard’s blog, wel­come! If … Continue reading →

Here’s an interview I did with the wonderful Geneviève Bolduc of 4GeeksMedia. She and her various camera operators really did a great job.