Category: WondLa
December 18, 2017
If you’ve been following me on social media for the past year, you know that in November I celebrated the opening of a retrospective exhibition at The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. To say that the experience was surreal would be an understatement. Having grown up copying Rockwell’s iconic images, it is an amazing …
Continue reading “Never Abandon Imagination: The Fantastical Art of Tony DiTerlizzi”
January 13, 2017
I know the site looks like a ghost town. I haven’t updated it in almost a year. Fear not, I am in the process of a new design for the site which I am planning on relaunching very soon. In the meantime, I do have some newsy bits I’d love to share: 2016 marked the …
Continue reading “Happy New Year!”
July 15, 2014
For those attending next week’s Comic Con International in lovely San Diego, California, here is my schedule of events:
March 10, 2014
I’ve finally received my May tour dates to support the fantastic finale to the WondLa trilogy.
October 17, 2013
If you’ve been following this blog for the past couple of months, you know I have been sharing much of my process for the upcoming cover to the third and final book in the Wondla trilogy, The Battle for WondLa.
September 20, 2013
The final stages of creating the artwork for The Battle for WondLa dust-jacket required me to set down my pencils, pens and paper and grab a mouse, Wacom stylus and keyboard.
August 27, 2013
71,000 words later, the final chapter of Eva Nine’s story is off to my editor at Simon & Schuster for final tweaks and copy-editing.
August 2, 2013
After many concept sketches, refined drawings, and color studies, I was finally able to begin the execution of the final artwork for The Battle for WondLa.
July 12, 2013
Invigorated with feedback from my readers, and my sketch approved by the team at Simon & Schuster, it was time to develop the mood of my cover concept sketch through use of color.
June 29, 2013
While my first draft of The Battle for WondLa was read by my editor and trusted beta-readers, I switched my focus from writing to drawing. In particular, drawing the perfect cover image to depict the climatic conclusion of the WondLa trilogy.
June 3, 2013
Fellow Orbonians, the first draft of The Battle for WondLa is completed and with my editor. While he reads it over (along with my beta-readers), I am beginning to design the third and final cover.
February 21, 2013
For my loyal readers following the adventures of Eva Nine and company, I can finally reveal the title of the third and final book in the WondLa trilogy.
November 2, 2012
I do hope this Friday finds many of you still enjoying Wednesday’s haul of Halloween booty. For our friends in the Tri-state area, I hope you are safe and recovering from that dreadful storm.
October 19, 2012
From A Hero for WondLa: At the park entrance a beeping gondola landed, and the bubble doors opened to reveal two other teenage girls. Both looked nearly identical to Gen… …”So,” Gen said, locking arms with the other girls. “These are my two darlings–Gen and Gen.” “We are known as the three Gens!” they said …
Continue reading “(A Rocket) Friday Fan Art”
October 8, 2012
I recently did a brief interview for the Girl Scouts of America with a focus on the creation of WondLa.
September 4, 2012
Just as was done with The Search for WondLa back in 2010, Simon & Schuster has printed a limited edition sketchbook featuring some of the designs that went into the illustrations for A Hero for WondLa.
July 20, 2012
This week we received some Wondlaful drawings inspired by the WondLa trilogy from magnificent Maine. Neil is an aspiring writer and artist who gains much inspiration from reading books and looking at other artist’s illustrations (I definitely know what he means by that). Check out this awesome profile series Neil has created featuring some of …
Continue reading “Friday Fan Art”
July 5, 2012
For those attending next week’s Comic Con International in lovely San Diego, California, here is my schedule of events:
June 19, 2012
Saniya Soni and I talked at length about the WondLa trilogy at Hicklebee’s during last month’s tour.
June 7, 2012
I can’t tell you what a thrill it is when a media blog that I adore (like the Hero Complex and Geekdad) posts about something I’ve created. Especially when the post has nice things to say.
June 1, 2012
This week’s Friday Fan Art is from Paige, an artist whom I met on tour that found creative inspiration from the WondLa series.
May 26, 2012
This year marked a decade of touring for my books (the first tour being for The Spider & the Fly back in the fall of 2002). And, though the travel hasn’t become less stressful, I still love coming to a bookstore, school or library and talking books. I can’t thank you all enough for making …
Continue reading “Another WONDLAful Tour!”
May 11, 2012
Geoff Boucher, of the LA Times, asked me a few key questions on the challenges of writing the second book in a trilogy. See what I had to say over at the Hero Complex.
May 11, 2012
Jonathan Liu, of Wired magazine, has posted an in-depth interview where we talk WondLa, reading, and being all around geeky dads. Take a look.
May 7, 2012
Saturday (May 5th) I flew up to Atlanta and had the opportunity to talk all things WondLa with CNN’s Randi Kaye.
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