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Designed by the great Rob Millis

Teenage flashback from The Handbook of Life!

THE HANDBOOK OF LIFE!

Milt Whitney has a story to tell, but the jungle keeps interrupting. Every time he starts to write, another world takes over, but as he tries to unravel the mystery, he finds he is connected to the fiction he thought he was only dreaming up.

From The Handbook of Life

Chapters for THE HANDBOOK OF LIFE

CHAPTER 6 spread from The Handbook of Life

The Handbook of Life begins

THE HANDBOOK OF LIFE

Here's the cover for the new novel THE HANDBOOK OF LIFE It will be published next month. Everything you need to know. More about it soon

Wallace Ed

I’ve been properly informed by AI—“Wallace Stevens and Mister Ed are completely unrelated historical and cultural figures: Wallace Stevens was a famous American modernist poet and insurance executive, while Mister Ed was a talking palomino horse from a 1960s television sitcom.”

Remember The Tin Can Telephone

I was remembering THE TIN CAN TELEPHONE, from 2020. A childhood memory novel set in 1975 Seattle, illustrated by the author like a coloring book.

talking to a phone on TV

My favorite scene in Creature with the Atom Brain

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at work

remotely true

I enjoyed Kim Deitch's new book, How I Make Comics. He's one of my favorites.

THE FREELOADER CHAPTERS

Free Mystery

Mysterious forces at work! This morning a chair appeared on our street as if right off the cover of my latest book!

The Freeloader

The FREELOADER

THE FREELOADER is a novel about a couple who find their home invaded by a mischief-making Martian Anemone. Humor, romance, a cardboard car chase, a rented elephant, insurance claims, interstellar mystery, and a special appearance by Bob Hope—it’s the perfect summer read for an anxious planet Earth. The book is available July 23, in two different editions, hardbound or soft cover. Illustrated throughout by the author, a watercolor cover by Alegra Garcia, designed with help from jetsetter Rob Millis, make The Freeloader your next destination!

THE FREELOADER

Here comes the next novel: The Freeloader! Publication date is July 23.

2 Art Books!

Read two great art books recently. Bunker Hill Los Angeles by Leo Politi and Tony Sarg: Genius at Play. The public library in LA has a beautiful Children's section with paintings by Politi. Visiting there inspired a story in my latest book, The Bicycle Dog. Tony Sarg is an amazing puppet maker, balloon maker, illustrator and instigator of a giant sea monster sighting!