My Writing Life

Almost six months ago, How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack was released into the wild. It has been an interesting, and sometimes incredible, six months. It’s my intention to do a … Read more

Every month I come across new writers who aren’t active on Twitter or Facebook. While I recognize that these things can be timesucks if you aren’t careful, there are benefits to being … Read more

25 million dollars. That’s how much Gnomeo & Juliet brought in over the weekend alone. I know what you’re thinking, because I’m thinking the same thing myself. I need to load my … Read more

Not a day passes without some kind buddy or Facebook friend telling me about this movie, have I heard of it? — it’s called Gnomeo & Juliet. Yes, I have heard of … Read more

The Christmas mad rush is over and the dust is settling. My book did very well over the holidays and I still see tweets and Amazon reviews from people who got it … Read more

This is my last Gnome Book update before Christmas break. If you picked it up as a holiday gift, thank you! These first three months have been a blast and I have … Read more

Winners picked: Brad, Linda, and Lori. Thanks to all for the very, very kindcomments. Happy holidays! ——————— First of all, let’s get right to my EPIC HOLIDAY BOOK GIVEAWAY. Comment on this … Read more

My big message this holiday season has been simply to support writers and bookstores by buying new books as gifts and asking for new books as gifts for yourself. This is not … Read more

I was curious as to how Black Friday and holiday shopping affects one’s sales and I definitely saw a little spike (according to Nielsen BookScan) and that was nice. On this note, … Read more

My bit of big news this week is simply that Ten Speed Press went back to the printer for 15,000 more copies of my book. The first printing was 35K and this … Read more

How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack is finally available in eBook form! This is very exciting. A word of caution though: Seeing as how the book is about 30% color photos … Read more

As I write this, it is 6:30 a.m., and you should know that I am not a morning person. I’m getting set to be interviewed on Tom Dunne’s Newstalk radio show in … Read more

I was very fortunate this week to write a guest column for agent Mary Kole’s KidLit blog — one of the best agent blogs on the Internet. My post was addressing the … Read more

I guest blogged for literary agent Rachelle Gardner’s large writing blog, talking about how writers can write for both love and money at the same time. Meanwhile, check out this mention the … Read more

I got a call from a news program in Ireland this week! — asking for an interview. It was exciting to see that word of gnome attacks is getting over the pond. … Read more

GNOMES will be sold in Macy’s, Lowes and Urban Outfitters! I just got this news yesterday and was very excited. Getting into any specialty markets is cause for celebration and stores like … Read more

Gnomevicious Tweets!! WELL WELL WELL, it appears my ultra-nemesis, the evil garden warrior known only as Gnomevicious, is tweeting now as of yesterday. I would suggest everyone follow him on Twitter just … Read more

Wonderful news of the week was that I was interviewed by AOL News (specifically, the “Weird News” department), and that interview has been flying through Facebook and Twitter, which is very cool. … Read more

Michelle Sussman snapped this pic of my book at a Borders, though I do not know the location. The danger of gnomes has attracted a prime spot in this store. Protect yourself! … Read more

Holy moley, dudes, my book is out today! It’s crazy to think that after all these months, the release date is really here. The book is available in all major bookstores, or … Read more

I just got back from a cruise vacation to Alaska and British Columbia. (It was kind of the last chance to vacation before things get super-crazy this fall.) My wife and I … Read more