In conjunction with the touring art show (which we launched at the Storyopolis Gallery last month), The Coppervale Studio had begun producing sets of high-quality, limited-edition art prints based on the original illustrations from HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS.

The first one, The Green Dragon, is the cover image, sans logo. A lot of people realized there was more to the drawing, and those queries inspired the print. We followed that one with prints of Aven, The Cartographer, and Samaranth. These are done at original size, as I drew them. And don’t worry if your favorite piece isn’t here - we’ll be doing all twenty-four chapter illustrations as prints sometime over the next couple of months.

To order a print, just click on the images below.

For the second year running, I’ve been invited to be a guest at the Chino Family Festival of Books, just east of Los Angeles. I’ll be there from 11 to 2, and I’ll be signing, sketching, and selling prints. After, I’m doing stock signings at the Barnes & Noble at Montclair Plaza, and Compass Books in Anaheim. Hope to see any LA area readers there!

The 2nd Annual Family Festival of Books
Sunday, February 24
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
9:00am-3:00pm
5410 Edison Ave. Chino
Brinderson Hall, Chino Fairgrounds
Admission is FREE $5.00 Parking
For more information please call 909-628-1201 ext 1590

The two current novels get a nice nod from a reviewer at Green Man Review:

*****

Faith also had a chance to check out James Owen’s Here There be Dragons and its sequel, The Search for the Red Dragon. Faith says the series starts off with a bang: ‘I suspect it’s the sort of book you can re-read multiple times from different perspectives, trying to see what clues you will pick up that you missed before. . . . It’s a real rip-roaring page-turner. It’s fast-paced and covers a wide canvas, geographically, historically and culturally.’ And the second book is up to snuff: ‘I think it was very sensible of Owen to separate the two stories by nine years. After all, we know that in our reality the main characters did not have long mysterious periods of absence. They are, after all, real people, and their lives are catalogued in minute detail in many other sources.’ So, two thumbs up for these two books.

*****

The full reviews can be read here and here.

You can buy them from one of the two booksellers we’ve specifically authorized to offer signed books:

 Changing Hands Bookstore

and

Crossroads Books

Both stores will be happy to mail your books anywhere in the world!

This is the current list for the first West Coast Tour. The school events in and around these are still being set, but most of these store events are locked in.

Arizona:

1/3- 5-8PM Crossroads Books (Taylor)
1/5- 2-4PM Changing Hands Bookstore (Tempe)
Southern California:

1/7- 7PM Mysterious Galaxy of Books (San Diego)
1/8- 11AM or 3ishPM (depending on school events) stock signing at First Page, Newport Beach

1/10- 3:30PM Mrs. Nelson’s (Chino)
1/11- Whale of a Tale (Time TK - Irvine)
Northern California:

1/14- 3ish, 3:30PM Hicklebee’s (San Jose)
1/16- either lunchtime or 4ish, Kepler’s stock signing

Oregon:

1/18- 7PM Powell’s, (Beaverton)

1/19- 2PM B&N, Portland ; 6PM Borders, (Tigard , OR)

Washington:

1/22- 4PM Boardwalk Books stock signing, (San Juan)

1/23- 4PM Griffin Bay Bookstore, (San Juan)

1/24- 7PM B&N, (Seattle)

Love to see anybody that can come out to one of the stops!

Finding out that James Langton (who read Lloyd Alexander’s PRYDAIN books) would be doing the audio versions of my novels was a delight; but actually hearing them come to life is amazing. I finally get what Neil Gaiman’s always talked about regarding the readings his friend Lenny Henry does of his books.

For your audio pleasure, I present the sample clips now online:

HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS

and

THE SEARCH FOR THE RED DRAGON

(The links take you to the S&S page where you can choose a format).

Gorgeous stuff.