New Video: Hunting for Wild Ideas

One of the most frequent questions authors get is “where do you find ideas?” It’s an understandable question. People want to know the secret. Where can they find ideas that are worthy of making into books? Surely there must be a special process. Or...

Eli Turns 8 (with accompanying soundtrack)

This guy is 8 now. He likes to say he’s part Bigfoot. Which he might be. Since his feet are bigger than mine. It’s been a few years since we’ve done a birthday mix, but Eli had enough songs he’s obsessed with right now to fill an hour. Need a...

Eli’s secret book box

So the other morning I woke up to find Eli at the dining room table hacking away at The Complete Works of William Shakespeare with a razorblade. I think I passed out. Around the time I got up off the floor, he’d abandoned the Shakespeare (“these pages are...

Fart Brain

“Eli, who’s that for?” “I haven’t decided yet. But I have some pretty good ideas.”

Henry and Eli make a video

So, what do you get when you add two Star-Wars-obsessed kids, Legos, and a video camera? This. (Also: I feel the need to mention that they haven’t actually seen any of the Star Wars movies. So this is their version of Star Wars via, you know, book...