(Inside A Black Apple)

Oddfellow's Paperback Giveaway

EDITED AGAIN: Hooray! The 10 winning comment numbers courtesy of the RNG!

6, 21, 36, 51, 73, 85, 121, 148, 158, 166

I'll be getting in touch with the owners of these numbers to get your addresses soon.
Thanks again for your entries & pie-thoughts & kind words!

EDIT: Comments are now closed - thanks for much for entering the giveaway! I loved reading so many different thoughts about pie. So much so, that I've decided to give away 10 copies, rather than 5 - so I'll be drawing 10 numbers & letting you know the results shortly!

Today, Oddfellow's Orphanage was released in paperback!

To celebrate, I'd like to give away copies of this brand-new edition (along with other bits, like maybe some postcards, bookmarks, etc.) to 5 commentors below.

This strange and wonderful place is very special to me, and I hope that this new version lands in the backpacks and nightstands of small people who will get to meet, for the first time, the strange and wonderful inhabitants who call Oddfellow's home

To enter:

-Just leave a comment letting me know your favorite kind of pie (I won't be sending you pie, but I'm just curious.)

-Please make sure there is a working email attached to your comment, so that if your number is drawn, I can write you for your address

-I'll pull numbers from a hat (or, more likely but less romantic, the Random Number Generator.)

I'll close comments sometime Wednesday evening. Thanks for playing along!

Other People's Pictures: Hokusai's Flowers

Hokusai's Wave gets all the attention, but lately I've been having a moment with his unbelievably beautiful and delicate flower paintings.

They're both ethereal and substantial, somehow.

  

 

I'd like to make more posts here about other people's pictures. It would be nice sometimes to chronicle who's hypnotizing me at any given time, since my eye has an easy heart and falls in love over and over and over again.

My art-book-buying has been a little outrageous lately - the evidence of my crushes pile up all over the place in little stacks. Sometimes I get very voracious about pictures, sometimes I am more reserved.

In the age of curating your infatuations online and tumbling and pinteresting them, I'm still quite tactile with mine. Even if I find an image online, I'll usually print it out and tape it or paste it into a scrapbook so I can go back to it in the leisurely way I like.

And then it can all be integrated into my revolutionary filing system - the Little Stacks™ method.

Some Little Day Dreamers

Since I remembered I gave a little peek of Dream Animals, I wanted to share a peek at some of the small people who populate my next picture book, Day Dreamers (the sunny companion to our nighttime dream book.) It will be out this Fall from the excellent Random House Kids!

The book is full of magical beasts and the imaginings of little dreamers, and I can't wait to share more as we get closer to the release...

Dream Animals Original Art!

Around 12 pieces of original picture book art (including 5 of the big dream spreads, like the Kitchen Dream below!) will be posted for sale on Monday in my shop at 4 pm Eastern/1 pm Pacific.

They are all framed up in my favorite gold frame - it was quite the endeavor framing the biggies, which clock in at a whopping three fee wide! (And a side-note to my dear International customers: because of the enormous size of the large horizontal paintings, they won't be available for international shipping. The square images, like the Fox Girl above, will.) And one or two paintings from the book are being reserved for various purposes, but the lion's share of book art will be there!

Each original Dream Animals painting will be sent on its way accompanied by a signed copy of the book!

I hope your 2014 is off to a lovely start!