Category Archives: Hereville

Hereville Wins An Oregon Book Award And I Am Surprised

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Ampersand

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 →

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Hereville Wins A Cybil Award

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Ampersand

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 →

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Character Design In Progress: Mirka’s Little Sister

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Ampersand

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.

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Sketch: Mirka with Layele

Posted on September 1, 2013 by Ampersand

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 →

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Deleted Scene With Mirka and her Mame from Hereville Book 3

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Ampersand

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 →

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Barry Interviewed on KBOO Radio Today

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Ampersand

[Updated: Time is 11:30am, not 11am. I’ll update the post with a link to the archive once I’ve got it.] Me and cartoonist Jenn Manley Lee will be interviewed on KBOO at 11:30am pacific time today. We’ll be talking about … Continue reading →

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Publisher’s Weekly on Hereville: “one of the most original and comically endearing heroines to come down the pike in a long time.”

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Ampersand

Publisher’s Weekly has posted their starred review of Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite. (Note: some spoilers ahead, although not more than you’d get from reading the back cover.) Eleven-year-old Mirka Herschberg is as disheveled, prickly, competitive, and impulsive as … Continue reading →

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Now Selling Signed Copies of Hereville!

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Ampersand

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 →

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Blog Hop! Blog Hop!

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Ampersand

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 →

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Barry interviewed at VanCAF

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Ampersand

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

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