While I’ve developed a love/hate relationship with Jeff Bezos’ online superstore, checking Amazon regularly is a great way to find out when my upcoming books have been announced with covers. In lieu of any lofty thoughts this Thursday, I’ve updated the site with 11 (!) new books and covers. You can read all about them under the Comics and Children’s Books tabs, but here’s a quick rundown:
On the licensed front, my first project from Penguin is up for preorder—a picture-book adaptation of an episode of a cartoon adapted from a picture-book series! Llama Llama is a delight, and it was a ton of fun to bring this vacation story from the screen to the page.
I’m also thrilled to be headed back to the world of Pokémon for an ABC book starring ‘mon from every generation, including Galar! Now that I’ve finally put in the time to finish Sword, I can truly appreciate this alphabetical tour of the Pokéworld.
Two books I actually spotted after the first draft of this post—new Super Wings early readers! If the amount of Amazon reviews for the first three I wrote are any indication, this cartoon is a hit with kiddies. Who doesn’t love transforming rescuers? Peep the other cover under the Children’s Books tab.
Moving out of the licensed world, the third (and final, for now!) cover for the Mr. Kazarian, Alien Librarian series is out in the galaxy, from artist Gary Boller. Asteroid Excursion was a blast (literally), and I ended up learning a lot about flying objects in space.
Speaking of learning: something totally new for me! Since the first Mr. Kazarian covered gas giants and ice giants, my lovely editor Krissy asked me to write four nonfiction planets books for the youngest burgeoning scientists. Above is just one of the covers, but all four can be seen under the Children’s Books tab.
Finally, Capstone invited me to contribute to their new Scary Graphics line of kids horror comics, and I’m beyond pleased to share that, despite being for younger readers, happy endings were not mandatory. Beach Nightmare and What’s in the Woods?, both illustrated by Alan Brown, should happily inspire more than a few nightmares.
In the next week or two, I should be able to reveal the cover of a very different kind of project from anything else I’ve worked on—one that’s been in the works for a couple of years, is targeted at a very different age range and audience, and will even be published under a kinda-sorta pen name for…reasons.
Stay tuned!