If the book DRAWING OUT THE DRAGONS touched or inspired you, then you should also read the second volume in The Meditations, THE BARBIZON DIARIES - and now you can do it for free. It's a continuation of the themes in the first book, with heavier stories and greater aspirations to redemption. If you haven't read the first, start there (also for free ( Read more... )

Tomorrow's the day!! The sixth Imaginarium Geographica book, THE DRAGONS OF WINTER officially goes on sale - and while I will be doing launch events at the Desert Ridge Barnes & Noble (Scottsdale) and Changing Hands (Tempe) as well as being a GoH at Coppercon 32 (Avondale), there will NOT be a formal signing tour. There ARE going to be a few ( Read more... )

"This is The Man. He is the true son of Hal Foster." - Ray Bradbury, about me. Foster was the creator of PRINCE VALIANT, and from childhood on, Ray's favorite writer/illustrator. No father could have spoken any prouder words to a son, and it meant the world to me to receive them. They mean even more now. And they'll mean even more tomorrow. God ( Read more... )

The followup to DRAWING OUT THE DRAGONS, Book II of The Meditations, THE BARBIZON DIARIES - A Meditation on Will, Purpose, and the Value Of Stories is now available for sale at the Coppervale Marketplace, and will very shortly be up at Amazon and B&N.com. It is gorgeous, moving, inspiring, and wrenching, in all the best ways. Early readers have ( Read more... )

From the end of chapter nine of DRAWING OUT THE DRAGONS: "Some people see what I chose to do as 'enduring', but I think the idea of 'enduring to the end' is a terrible philosophy, and an awful way to live one's life. How you spend your days is how you live your life - and if you're spending them 'enduring' anything then you're doing it wrong. I ( Read more... )

We're getting close to 2000 downloads of the Drawing out the Dragons ebook. Some people have gotten the mistaken impression that it involves drawing dragons, which it does - but only slightly. What its really about is overcoming the obstacles and challenges we all face so that you can lead an extraordinary life. Everyone finds something different ( Read more... )

The great Will Eisner once did a comics story that took place over ten minutes, and ended with the line, "What's ten minutes in a man's life?"

It is, as it turned out in both the story and in many circumstances in the real world, very, very significant.

Yesterday, I offered a free ebook of DRAWING OUT THE DRAGONS - A Meditation on Art, Destiny, and ( Read more... )

…The penultimate adventure of the Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica will be loosed upon the world…


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The books are here. And they are BEAUTIFUL.

I'm commencing signing 2500 books, and packing prints, books, and bookmarks into packages to be shipped to you all as soon as humanly possible.
Anybody wanting extra copies (or who hadn't ordered them via the Kickstarter campaign) can get them via Coppervale. They won't be shipped with the Kickstarter ( Read more... )

There’s been a lot of discussion about your recent addition to Amazon of an app that people can use to scan items in stores - items which they are then asked to purchase from Amazon instead of at their local store. In addition to (in all probability) getting a lower price on the same item, they’ll also get five bucks for using the app. I think, as ( Read more... )