If you’re in Bloomington this Saturday, Nov. 2nd, I’ll be selling and signing books from 10-3 at the Bloomington Local Author Book Fair at the Monroe County History Center, just a block from the library.
For some inexplicable reason, there is also a Bloomington Book Festival happening that day via the great folks at Morgenstern’s Books featuring some exciting authors. I have no idea why these events were not coordinated and combined, and have nothing to do with it— I encourage you to attend both! This is not a big town, so please consider them to be part of the same thing on Saturday. It would be ridiculous to do otherwise. See you there!
I’m officially halfway done with the finished pages for Diana, my character-centered prequel to Fall Through— 152 pages done of 304 total in the last six months. I’ve been script-tweaking, lettering, inking, coloring, adding a few pages and re-penciling the first batch of many pages on defective paper as I go.
This book means a lot to me, and feels like a big leap forward as a writer and graphic novelist. It’s also one of the only reassuring things in life right now offering joy, nuance, ambiguity and vulnerability. Diana will also tie my 2018 book Come Again (which debuted the main characters within its pages) firmly together with these books, making these books the Free Space trilogy. When it’s all done, the reading order will be Come Again, then Fall Through, then Diana, and then Fall Through a second time (as Diana will retroactively make Fall Through read as a different book).
In news for my other still-new book Lies My Teacher Told Me, here’s a great writeup in School Library Journal, and the book is also referenced in this CBR piece on the graphic adaptation of A People’s Indigenous History of the United States.
